Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [not/n't] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the work which really made Wordsworth 's reputation , The Excursion ( 1814 ) , is usually dismissed as almost unreadable ; it offers Wordsworth 's mature opinions ‘ on Man , on Nature , and Society ’ , and one must grant that , as The Prelude was not published in 1814 , it appeared to be his most considerable poem . |
| 2 | After 1805 the flood of ideas poured on past Wordsworth , without him ; for The Prelude was not published until 1850 . |
| 3 | In the nineteenth century , religion was not admitted as a legitimate basis for national independence . |
| 4 | Charlemagne 's self-image was not confined to David . |
| 5 | This association was not observed in women , and because it was noted in an unplanned subgroup analysis the authors urged that the finding should be interpreted cautiously . |
| 6 | Ford 's survey of a sample of relegated stock from two university libraries showed that 75% of the relegated stock was not held by BLLD , notably foreign language and pre-1900 material . |
| 7 | Conversely , in the high-risk group , which included all subjects who were not in the low-risk group already defined ( Table 3 ) , the ACE/ID polymorphism was not related to myocardial infarction . |
| 8 | as smokers but coming on to th the real point of the experiment was n't to look at fitness , and was n't just to set up a stop smoking project , but what I wanted to look at was whether people gain weight or not . |
| 9 | Pressure for health regeneration was not confined to the army . |
| 10 | The defence will then be able to argue that the complainant consented to sexual intercourse and that force was not used in order to accomplish the contact or penetration . |
| 11 | The defendant company denied liability under its policy of insurance on the ground that the loss of the watch and ring was not caused by theft within the meaning of the Act of 1968 . |
| 12 | Having reviewed the scheme , an FAC Working Group recommended no change for the year commencing 1 April 1993 , but this recommendation was not accepted by the committee and the CAA has since notified AOC operators that it ‘ has it in mind ’ to raise AOC charges for operators of aircraft of less than fifteen tonnes maximum take-off weight by fifty per cent from April . |
| 13 | Both are electron-density maps ; the bound ligand was not included in either the refinement or map calculation . |
| 14 | In some cases a carefully monitored rolling programme ensured that over a given period of time , say a week or a fortnight , the teacher engaged directly with every child in every area of the curriculum ; but in other cases the inequality of investment was not adjusted in this way , and the result was the persistent neglect of certain children and certain areas of the curriculum . |
| 15 | The widespread belief that the limbic system is the substrate of emotion is also the result of an accident , in that Papez 's theory of emotion was not justified by the evidence available at the time and there are other , equally acceptable , interpretations of the effects of limbic system damage . |
| 16 | LORD TENTERDEN C.J. : Assuming that the offer to pay the six guineas without costs was evidence of an express promise by the defendant to pay that sum to the plaintiff as a compensation to him for his loss of time , still , if the defendant was not bound by law to pay that sum , the offer to do so not having been accepted will not avail the plaintiff . |
| 17 | By a notice of appeal dated 18 February 1991 the second defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that the judge erred ( 1 ) in concluding that the first defendant was not acting as the plaintiffs ' agent when he procured the signature of the second defendant to the legal charge dated 3 July 1987 ; and ( 2 ) in not finding that the execution of the charge was procured by the undue influence and material misrepresentation of the first defendant and thereby in not setting aside the charge . |
| 18 | The Gardeners Dictionary was not confined to English readers ; it was first translated into Dutch in 1745 , an indication of the author 's close association with Holland . |
| 19 | When one recalls that for decades geography was not recognized as a scholarly discipline , one can not perhaps be surprised that some scientists have unsuspectingly spent their whole careers studying geography — rather like the well-known character of Molière who did not know that he had been speaking prose all his life ! |
| 20 | In Britain , with the foundation of the Natural Environment Research Council in 1966 , it was notable that physical geography was not mentioned in the charter of NERC ( Hare , 1966 ) as one of the environmental sciences that the Council would support . |
| 21 | Mummification was not used in Syria in the first century , but the bodies may have been preserved in Egypt . |
| 22 | The theft was not discovered until the following morning when the red faces of Belgium 's finest fighting men matched their burgundy berets . |
| 23 | The peace which ended this episode was not concluded until 1669 . |
| 24 | After November 1919 , therefore , all the unemployed except the ex-servicemen lost their dependants ' benefits and this loss was not offset by the slight increase in the basic unemployment benefit rate made in December that year . |
| 25 | Their loss was not reported to police or the royal household — and work carried on as if nothing had happened . |
| 26 | But the use of a food-reinforced procedure is not in itself enough — Peck and Bouton 's ( 1990 ) result was not replicated by Bouton and Peck ( 1989 ) ; and Kaye and Mackintosh ( 1990 ) who , apart from giving very prolonged initial training , used procedures similar to those of Hall and Honey ( 1989a ) , were unable to find the effect . |
| 27 | The high turn-out — 79 percent of the 93,367 electorate — meant the count took longer than expected and the result was not declared until just before 3 a.m. on Friday . |
| 28 | Attlee did not expect to win the general election held on 5 July 1945 ( though the result was not declared until 26 July , to allow the votes of the Armed Forces to be garnered from around the globe ) . |
| 29 | If the litigant was not assisted at first instance , or before one of the appellate tribunals , a full application for a legal aid certificate must be made . |
| 30 | The silver denarius was not established on a permanent footing until the Second Pubic War ( fig.39 : c , d ) , and gold only came to dominate the imperial coinage and advertise the power and majesty of Rome with the extension of the Empire ( fig.39 : e , f ) . |