Example sentences of "[verb] was not [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some land involved was not bought until a year and a half after the find . |
| 2 | The removal of Carrick , and a number of other officers , clearly would open the way to promotion for others , but the charge that Carrick had claimed in an official record to have been in places which he had not in fact visited was not denied by the complainant . |
| 3 | We therefore became aberrant policemen simply because what we were now living was not programmed by previous organizational knowledge and habit . |
| 4 | After an appeal to the Bundesgerichtshof , the European Court of Justice affirmed that a fresh examination had to be made under Article 27(2) , and the court in the state where enforcement was sought was not bound by the determination made under Article 15 of the Hague Convention . |
| 5 | Playing like we played was n't lying at all , it was nothing to do with lying . |
| 6 | My resolve not to go back into education hardened , if anything , rather than softened , as I became more and more determined that the sacrifice I had made was not going to be in vain . |
| 7 | Whatever scientific ambition he may have had was not matched by his ability . |
| 8 | But the principle to which we have adverted was not presented to his mind in its simple form ; and the point certainly did not undergo much consideration . |
| 9 | The only controversy that has surrounded these measures is their date , for , most inconveniently , inscriptions and subscriptions do not match ; or , to put the matter more clearly , the emperor to whom the constitutions are attributed was not reigning in the consular year in which it is dated . |
| 10 | Jos Hermens , agent and manager to Krabbe and Breuer , said later : ‘ The pack [ containing the samples ] that was used was not meant for doping control . |
| 11 | The data suggested that the appreciable hypocholesterolaemia observed was not influenced by the pathological stage or degree of differentiation of the tumour . |
| 12 | Although the centrally devised programme which all elementary schools then followed was not abolished until 1926 , the freedom given to state school teachers to devise their own methodology to suit the school 's particular needs was a radical innovation . |
| 13 | In the remaining 10 US companies , scanning was not done in an independent unit but was undertaken in a more informal manner within the corporate planning department . |
| 14 | One person received medical treatment after being overcome by fumes and 15 others received medical checks after the leak of nitrogen oxide , which BNFL emphasised was not connected with the uranium testing . |
| 15 | What the police expected them to do was not hinted at . |
| 16 | A woman who was menstruating was not allowed into the Temple . |
| 17 | At bottom then there was some democratic basis for the Unionist case , for the government was pressing on with a reform that they knew was not backed by the electorate . |
| 18 | Definitive evidence that group fixed was not guided to F+ by a local olfactory cue was provided by a final ‘ two-identical landmark ’ test ( Fig. 4 ) . |
| 19 | The decision to break was not taken in haste , but the culmination of years of little niggles which seemed to have no end in sight . |
| 20 | Although the research supported was not limited by a theme , the issue of employment , unemployment and the operation of labour markets was seen as central to the research development . |
| 21 | The possessive way she looked and spoke was not wasted on Christina . |
| 22 | What you quickly learned was not to sit on the end of the row , because the usherettes would pass the trays down the row and as soon as everybody was served they 'd give the nod to the projectionist , the lights would go down again , and on the film would go . |
| 23 | Until recently acetylcysteine was not recommended for use more than 15 hours after overdose , but there is now evidence that it can safely be given to patients up to 24 hours after ingestion and perhaps even later than this . |
| 24 | Virus shedding was not observed at any time during treatment . |
| 25 | These suspicions were fuelled when it was discovered that one of those killed was not employed at the mine . |
| 26 | The success achieved was not reflected in press and TV reports . |
| 27 | You know , I mean I know he said that the best thing , decision we ever made was not to go to erm Raynes Park because the wicket really has deteriorated on that , but he has a lot of contacts and things . |
| 28 | The type of family and marriage which they operated was not given in the nature of man or in other supernatural and suprahistorical sources , but in the economic and political circumstances of their time , in this case by capitalism . |
| 29 | The principle of intention to treat was not used in this analysis as the purpose was evaluation of the untreated condition and the effects of treatments rather than their feasibility . |
| 30 | The fact that Blake was missing was not discovered until 7.20 p.m. and the first call to the police did not occur until 7.43 p.m. so Blake had roughly two hours ' start . |