Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it were not known that pupil-dilation was intimately related to neurological functioning of the brain its absence in some cases of head injury might go unremarked ; but once its significance is appreciated , such a seemingly slight symptom assumes drastic importance . |
| 2 | Everyone presenting data at the conference was careful to point out that they were not saying that lead is safe , even at low levels , but the ‘ do n't knows ’ do not form a powerful lobby . |
| 3 | It was not intended that colleges should have to resubmit or revise their current schemes at the point of transfer . |
| 4 | It was not disputed that teachers ought to be aware of the relation between educational success and failure and the language children being to school , or that some teachers need to give a good deal of time to the study of reading . |
| 5 | He said he was not suggesting that Mrs Swami had tried deliberately to mislead the jury about the number of beatings . |
| 6 | Pauline Mitchell , director of housing , said the council was not suggesting that Tracy had been negligent . |
| 7 | But that was not to say that people had a right to it , that they were entitled to it . |
| 8 | Party chairman Chris Patten , who repeatedly urged caution , was not to know that Treasury forecasts of recovery were baseless . |
| 9 | Poor Annie was not to know that Hilary found it difficult to understand her broad moorland dialect . |
| 10 | She was not to know that Tina , sticking to her principles , had long ago slept with her cousin Jarvis . |
| 11 | ( He was not to know that Charles Olson , after next to no apprenticeship at all , would recklessly try to emulate him . ) |
| 12 | Her will included legacies of twenty pounds each to her Frome cousins , Mary and Sarah , the daughters of her uncle John Titford ; she was not to know that Mary would die just two months before she did , though Sarah , as we shall see , survived for another five years , long enough to bless the generosity of her Surrey cousin . |
| 13 | Further , while it was said that the decision of Browne J. in the Bognor Regis case [ 1972 ] 2 Q.B. 169 had been generally approved , or not criticised , by textbook writers , and by the Faulks Committee in 1975 , it was not suggested that Parliament had in any legislation apparently treated that decision as representing settled law . |
| 14 | When the plans were made it was not known that Myrtle Mott would be unable to teach during the year or that one of the days selected would coincide with an invitation for the N.D.T. to appear in Scotland . |
| 15 | The club have kept this one very quiet as it was not expected that Hanley , who returned from a summer in Australia with a bad pelvic strain , would come back before the New Year . |
| 16 | Today Mr Justice Garland stressed that he was n't suggesting that media coverage of the case should have been restricted . |