Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [not/n't] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike Bacon , however , Paracelsus was not writing from the standpoint of a scientific and medical amateur . |
| 2 | But Marie was not going to be fooled like that again . |
| 3 | In Osred 's first year a council was held on the banks of the River Nidd , again presided over by Archbishop Beorhtwald , at which both Aelfflaed and Berhtfrith spoke in Wilfrid 's favour ; Wilfrid was not restored to York , of which John of Beverley , bishop of Hexham , became bishop , but he was allowed to retain his former possessions of Ripon and Hexham as bishop of Hexham ( HE V , 19 : Vita Wilfridi , ch. 60 ) . |
| 4 | What I think was true was that the Falklands was not regarded as a front-line issue for some period of time , and indeed the forecast was that it would n't really boil up again until August or thereabouts in 1982 . |
| 5 | After the first week I came to the reluctant conclusion that Charlie Trumper was n't going to be pleased that I had sacrificed ten pounds of our money — six of his and four of mine — just to appease my female vanity . |
| 6 | ‘ But , ’ Ranulf interrupted , ‘ if the Lady Eleanor was not murdered by any of the good sisters … if she was not murdered by Gaveston , if no one stole across the priory walls , what did happen ? ’ |
| 7 | After all Meredith was not alluding to her , any more than he was casting himself in the role of Caesar . |
| 8 | This meant that Afghanistan was not covered by a multilateral neutralisation regime . |
| 9 | Manville was not going to be put off now . |
| 10 | He felt sure Ari was not convinced by such blatant lies . |
| 11 | Fortunately , Nevil was n't looking in his mirror , he had his head out of the driver 's window as if looking for a street name . |
| 12 | She had known , without questioning how she knew , that Luke Scott was not done with her . |
| 13 | Feeling decidedly uncomfortable at the older woman 's frosty manner , Rachel reluctantly followed her into the sitting-room hoping that David was n't going to be long . |
| 14 | Despite the preparation of various position papers between 1943 and 1945 the United States was not organised for the task of governing Korea . |
| 15 | Mr. Twycross was not asked in cross-examination about these possibilities . |
| 16 | He could , because Mrs Wright was n't looking at him . |
| 17 | Since Roberts was not mentioned in Spratt or in the next case , Parmenter [ 1991 ] 2 WLR 408 , those cases are per incuriam . |
| 18 | The Kerry Group Irish Champion Stakes lost one of its biggest draws yesterday when Rodrigo de Triano was not entered for the Group One race at Leopardstown on Sunday . |
| 19 | Scottish champion Jim Mailer was not included in the main draw ; Bruce Flockhart had to pull out because of a leg injury ; and Gordon and Jillian Haldane withdrew because of a family bereavement . |
| 20 | Besides Maxham was n't dressed with a salesman 's mass-produced smartness : he was a wiry little man whose rumpled suit and gold-rimmed glasses made him look like an old-fashioned country doctor . |
| 21 | Rex was n't thinking about Coca Cola . |
| 22 | Molly was n't listening to them . |
| 23 | It would be wrong to end without acknowledging that emigration from Ayrshire was not confined to the 18th and 19th centuries . |
| 24 | Most puzzling of all was the fact that Eva was n't perturbed by their disappearance . |
| 25 | Kim Il Sung was not to emerge as a major personality until after 1945 . |
| 26 | But Ronni was n't thinking about Richmond . |
| 27 | Ronni was n't waiting for anything . |
| 28 | Whether or not , as Heath reported , the Vietnamese were turning increasingly to the US for advice and assistance in a situation where the Governor of Annam was n't speaking to the Prime Minister — who was being kept on . |
| 29 | The policy agreed by the UK and US Governments at the beginning of May was not based on any detailed consideration of these distinctions . |
| 30 | Second , political violence in England was not invented by the BUF , nor did it come about as a response to its activities . |