Example sentences of "was not [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was assumed by most American policy-makers that the Soviet Union possessed the forces to fulfil a rapid occupation of Manchuria and Korea but this was not borne out by the course of events . |
| 2 | In her letter to BR Mrs. Buttigieg asked why the registration number of her car was not checked out against the season ticket holders ' records . |
| 3 | The wall was not tied in to the end gables . |
| 4 | GROWING up on a tobacco farm was enough to convince Cheryl Boston that she was not cut out for the agricultural life . |
| 5 | Eventually she found that apart from keeping up with friends , the answer was not to hang on to the old life but to start new involvements of her own , by finding first part-time paid work and later a voluntary job doing book-keeping and accounting . |
| 6 | For example , there was no real requirement to handle Training or Sickness and Absenteeism recording ( although it was not ruled out for the future ) . |
| 7 | The greater part of their duties in terms of expenditure was not handed down to the boroughs but passed over to newly established joint boards for police , the fire brigade , passenger transport and the probation service because these functions require wider operational areas than the boroughs can provide . |
| 8 | The minister was not put out by the note of impatience in Bertha Cohen 's voice . |
| 9 | This showed quite unequivocally that the pattern was not laid down in the egg . |
| 10 | The reform was not carried through in the House but the phrenologists urged or reformers elsewhere and , indirectly , their enthusiasm led on to William Forster 's Education Bill of 1870 which established in Britain the system of elementary schools for all . |
| 11 | Consequently exchange rate adjustment to long-run changes in a country 's competitive position was not carried out in the manner visualized by the founding fathers of the system . |
| 12 | In addition , cardiac surgery was not carried out in the two districts studied . |
| 13 | Finally , it is no use trying to escape by saying that ancient trade was not carried out by the nationals of ancient states but by non-citizens , so the Megarian decree can not have injured Megarian trade : the generalization about ancient trade should be corrected to read ‘ ancient Athenian trade ’ , which is what nearly all our information is about . |
| 14 | Owing to shortage of medical staff , the post-mortem was not carried out until the following morning . |
| 15 | American unionism has had the inestimable advantage of being born in a land whose social landscape was not cluttered up with the debris of a feudal age . |
| 16 | I was emotionally devastated , but I was not going back with the intention of finding a man to take care of me , to pay my bills , to embellish me and play papa as Helmut had . |
| 17 | Unlike Alexai Ybreska , Zhukov was not disappearing out of the country in a hurry . |
| 18 | The grass was lucky if it grew , was shone upon and rained upon , and was not burned , and was not pulled up by the roots , or poisoned , or buried when the ground was turned over , and some bits just happened to be on a line that humans wanted to walk on , and so got trampled , broken , pressed flat , with no malice ; just effect . |
| 19 | On November 28 Hatta resigned from the office of Vice-president , deploring the drift towards chaos : ‘ All our rebellions and our splits , our political anarchy and adventurism , and all the steps taken in the economic field which have created chaos , are the result of the fact that our national Revolution was not dammed up at the appropriate time . ’ |
| 20 | This was not passed on to the planning committee . |
| 21 | For I could tell that he was a little rusty , and I wondered if sometimes this affable and agreeable companion was worried because he knew that he was not keeping up with the strides that modern medicine was taking . |
| 22 | The two-fold test was not backed up by the authorities . |
| 23 | To his surprise , Eleanor was not bowled over by the dinner invitation . |