Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] [vb pp] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inter-word boundary effects were not implemented for the first prototype . |
| 2 | Brightly-coloured uniforms and gleaming breastplates were not kept for the parade ground , but were meant to be worn in battle . |
| 3 | The answers that his analysis might produce were not intended for the enlightenment of participants but for the enlightenment of anthropologists . |
| 4 | The Irish may have scored socially but they came a poor second on the field because , says DON CAMERON , they were not prepared for the speed and the impact of the N.Z. game . |
| 5 | Originally Jesus probably directed this parable against the Jews who were not prepared for the coming of the Messiah and would not accept him . |
| 6 | They were not prepared for the thousands of young people demonstrating on the streets , apparently with Deng 's blessing . |
| 7 | Interviewed on Dec. 15 Deputy Foreign Minister Sok An admitted that Cambodian troops , " fighting alone for the first time " , were not prepared for the intensity of the rebel assault . |
| 8 | Thus the company responsible for the hoist accident at Littlebrook Dee power station were not prosecuted for the fact that five men died , but for the fact that the machinery was not properly maintained or inspected . |
| 9 | ( This is not to imply that any of the individuals involved were not qualified for the positions they held ) . |
| 10 | The big show-piece cinemas were built to pull in the fashionable trade but they were not designed for the exclusive use of a social elite ; rather they were provided for all those groups who were prepared to pay money for the movie entertainment that was being provided as part of the delights offered by the down-town city . |
| 11 | that the purpose of avoiding liability to taxation was not the purpose or one of the purposes for which the transfer or associated operations or any of them were effected ; or 2. that the transfer and any associated operations were bona fide commercial transactions and were not designed for the purpose of avoiding liability to taxation ( s741 ) . |
| 12 | Matters were not improved for the defence when the trial judge refused Mr. Small 's application for the judge to look at the January statement for himself pursuant to section 17 of the Evidence Act . |
| 13 | So , when the house is full , and my husband 's away , and I give up my room to some guest like your Rainbow 's Aunt Goldie — I spend the night in my father 's study , and reading all the texts that were n't written for the eyes of women . |
| 14 | I thought it might be that there was a , we were n't covered for the liability to pick people |
| 15 | We had brought jackets , but were n't prepared for the cold . |
| 16 | We had brought jackets , but were n't prepared for the cold . |
| 17 | These were n't prepared for the winter hibernation . |
| 18 | However , the company was not prosecuted for the fact that four people died , but because the machinery was not properly maintained ; they were fined £5,000 . |
| 19 | Mr Fagan , who was 30 at the time , was not prosecuted for the trespass after the Director of Public Prosecutions ruled there was no evidence that the trespass was a criminal offence . |
| 20 | She expected him to keep looking over his shoulder to make sure that all the fuss was not intended for the man behind . |
| 21 | Set in a ‘ green and silent spot , amid the hills ’ , it was not intended for the Lyrical Ballads , but was a political meditation inspired by fears of a French invasion . |
| 22 | I suggested that if there was money available from sponsors that was not intended for the development of rugby , then it might be used as a way of rewarding the squad . |
| 23 | It was not intended for the man or woman at the receiving end but for the author 's fellow elitists . |
| 24 | But I was not prepared for the raking over of academic arguments on defining poverty around when John Moore , then Secretary of State for Social Services , said poverty no longer existed . |
| 25 | This method has also shown that a similar pattern of damage was caused to the DNA in human cells for the complex 9 whereas damage to intracellular DNA was not detected for the complex 10 ( 9 ) . |
| 26 | The ANDF installer for Sparc produced by Praxis Systems Plc ( UX No 389 ) , was not done for the Open Software Foundation but for the DRA , which owns it . |
| 27 | He lacked imagination and , like most of those in the right-wing Völkisch parties , was not noted for the subtlety of his political thought . |
| 28 | ( Provided he was not questioned for the offence in the first police station ) . |
| 29 | Payment of income support is related to pension payment days , and she was not remunerated for the first five days of the elderly person 's occupation . |
| 30 | Despite the preparation of various position papers between 1943 and 1945 the United States was not organised for the task of governing Korea . |