Example sentences of "[was/were] not [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By now certain that Meehan and Griffiths were the murderers of Mrs Ross , the Crown Office in Edinburgh issued a statement that with Griffiths 's death and Meehan 's arrest , they were not looking for any other suspects in connection with the Ayr murder — thus , said Nicky , prejudging the very issue that was to come to trial . |
| 2 | But what would the interpretation be if that allegorical answer were not printed for all to see ? |
| 3 | Our customers are many and varied , ranging from domestic pets to farm animals and even an occasional exotic animal — like the lion that was brought from a travelling circus with a cut foot , and caused consternation amongst our more regular clients ; they were not prepared for such a large cat sitting in the back of a Land Rover in our car park . |
| 4 | Furthermore , they were not prepared for this by socialisation at school and at home . |
| 5 | The child 's arousal classification was noted for each 12th minute value of UOS pressure and a mean value obtained for arousal states A and B. Although arousal states C to E were noted their data were not analysed for this study . |
| 6 | William had come to the throne two years earlier , in 1688 , after the Glorious Revolution against the Catholic James II ; but although the Treatises do contain material which could be seen as after-the-fact justifications of the Revolution , they were not written for this reason . |
| 7 | Second only to the Royal Saloons of this time were the 57ft saloons de luxe , built for the accommodation of the Royal suite , when the King and Queen were travelling ; when they were not required for this purpose they could be hired . |
| 8 | You were not chosen for this trip just to see an old flame , were you ? ’ |
| 9 | They did not know then , were not to know for many years , were never fully to understand what it was that held them together — a sense of being on the margins of English life , perhaps , a sense of being outsiders , looking in from a cold street through a lighted window into a warm lit room that later might prove to be their own ? |
| 10 | Even those pupils who were not entered for any examination have suffered , because teachers have got into a habit of teaching in a particular way , and find it hard to break away from it . |
| 11 | To this day , we do not know why élite internal security units of the KBW were not used for this purpose , as they were in 1956 . |
| 12 | Les Conn : ‘ Well , of course , the people were n't prepared for that kind of entertainment and they all put their hands over their ears , and Bloom started screaming , ‘ Get them off , they 're ruining my wedding party ’ . |
| 13 | We were n't asking for any more wages . |
| 14 | So therefore you got motorbikes going up the ramps , which were n't designed for that . |
| 15 | The house was not vacated for several months . |
| 16 | He was educated at Mill Hill School under Dr Thorowgood and was not intended for any profession until family losses made it necessary . |
| 17 | Her own sense of failure was projected into others in order to ward off a depression about herself which finally overwhelmed her and was not to lift for some years . |
| 18 | I was not aiming for any distant target , and nor does natural selection . |
| 19 | This could be done , and the lord would be in a position to rack-rent , if there was any demand for land , and although this latter condition was not met for much of the fifteenth century , it did apply as the sixteenth century advanced . |
| 20 | Together with this evidence must be the proof that the passenger was not licensed for that class of vehicle etc . |
| 21 | Halfway through 1979 the Ashleys finally moved into the main part of the château ; it was not completed for another two years and was to prove a far more major project than anyone had realized . |
| 22 | Analysis to this level was not undertaken for all sub-systems , only those where some significant change was implied , as even the secondary expansion was extensive and time-consuming . |
| 23 | I was not made for this , my Lord , my shepherd . |
| 24 | They were charged that they did contrive , design and plot to murder MOIR NcILCHENICH widow of Ellister for mere avarice and covetousness to attain to her money which they supposed she had lying by her in her house and in pursuance of this plot did upon some day of April 1698 in dead time of night murder her by strangling her with her own belt and thereafter threw her body over a rock into the sea so that the deed was not discovered for some time . |
| 25 | It had been designed in a period of relative economic stability and was not fitted for such tumultuous times . |
| 26 | Sir Denys , a 58-year-old Scot and a lawyer by training , took over from Sir John Harvey-Jones in 1987 ( who is now chairman of The Economist but was not consulted for this article ) . |
| 27 | A further merger took place in 1847 when the Edinburgh and Dundee Steam Packet Company joined the fleet and in 1852 when regular sailings to Hamburg commenced the name was changed to Leith , Hull and Hamburgh Steam Packet Company ( the spelling of the word ‘ Hamburgh ’ was not to change for some years hence ) . |
| 28 | Despite the mixed response from critics , Dustin felt pride in his achievement and confidence in the film itself , so he expressed his anger when Little Big Man was not nominated for any Oscars . |
| 29 | He pointed out that , unlike the South Western Board , he was not asking for any subsidy . |
| 30 | Although her satire on wedlock was not published for more than a century after her death , its composition elicited an immediate rebuke from her brother Samuel , who admonished her thus : Repent , renounce all wicked wit : … |