Example sentences of "[was/were] not [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once upon time , a Royal Banker of elevated rank noticed as he drove to the City on the morning of the Queen Mum 's birthday that the flags were not flying on the most relevant of our buildings . |
| 2 | Central bodies were not to negotiate on the transfer of facilities to Lithuanian jurisdiction ( on March 13 the Lithuanian Supreme Council had passed a bill establishing the principle of Lithuanian jurisdiction over all economic facilities in the republic currently held solely by the USSR central authorities or jointly with Lithuania ) . |
| 3 | Relativity and , more importantly , quantum mechanics , were not seen on the whole as a challenge to the idea of the certainty of physics ; on the contrary , they were often presented as proof of the exciting inroads physics was making . |
| 4 | After a tough debate within the Miners ' Federation in 1911 — the miners were not united on the baths ' efficacy — some of the miners ' leaders collaborated with women activists in the labour movement and during the First World War brought out a pamphlet , published by the Women 's Labour League , promoting pithead baths , including testimony from Robert Smillie and the well-known feminist Kathryn Bruce-Glazier . |
| 5 | Watkins found crossroads falling on leys with amazing frequency , even though the present-day roads were not aligned on the leys . |
| 6 | The valuations are those of estate agent Peter Freitag but , on this occasion , they were not based on the usual detailed investigation of the inside of the houses . |
| 7 | Nalgo , whose Stockton branch chairman Steve Matthews said members were not consulted on the proposals , is seeking an urgent meeting with council leader Bob Gibson over moves to axe 38 jobs in a bid to avoid being rate-capped . |
| 8 | Exactly similar inferences can be made in cases like example ( 18 ) , and it is clear that such inferences are fundamental to our sense of coherence in discourse : if the implicatures were not constructed on the basis of the assumption of relevance , many adjacent utterances in conversation would appear quite unconnected . |
| 9 | ( h ) Presenting another 's cheque : Wille , above , even though the bank had no mandate to honour the cheque , and Chan Man-sin v R , above , where the cheques were not binding on the company . |
| 10 | Sharp rises in the national export statistics in both 1523–4 and 152 rule out any general depression ; any unemployment can only have been temporary and localised , as the disorders in the eastern counties were not repeated on the same scale anywhere . |
| 11 | Pledges on which less than ten shillings had been lent became the property of the pawnbroker if they were not collected on the appointed day . |
| 12 | In previous World Cups , two days were allocated to each match so that contests which were not concluded on the first could be decided on the reserve day . |
| 13 | On the other question , new temples were not built on the Acropolis until after the middle of the century ( a ‘ Cimonian Parthenon ’ appears to me a mare 's nest , and even its proponent does not think it was begun before the sixties ; below , p. 93 ) . |
| 14 | The niceties of these social distinctions were not lost on the pub designer of the period , as they boosted pub taking by enabling such a wide range of people to be served in the same building . |
| 15 | For example , the States of Indiana , Ohio , New York , Pennsylvania , New Jersey , Maryland , Delaware , Connecticut and Rhode Island were not represented on the House Committee on Agriculture in 1985 ( Johnston , 1988c ) , and of those only Indiana was represented on the Senate 's Subcommittee on Agriculture , Nutrition and Forestry . |
| 16 | They argued that most of girls ' lives were not conducted on the street in any case , and that it was necessary to study them in their homes instead . |
| 17 | If one is willing to discard the possibility of Picasso having focused his attention on these particular heads in the Louvre — and this is unlikely since they were not shown on the ground floor like the Osuna reliefs , the Dama de Elche and other important Iberian pieces , but in a small room in the basement together with some twenty other heads — his acquisition of them is useful in establishing a chronological sequence for the painting of the different sections of the Demoiselles . |
| 18 | Among the 83 controls for whom neither parent was interviewed , 58 sets of parents declined an interview , 14 were not approached on the advice of their general practitioner , and the current addresses of the remaining 11 were not traced . |
| 19 | I am not certain why the other three crew members were not included on the memorial as none of the bodies were recovered . |
| 20 | Independent candidates were not included on the electoral lists , leaving only Socialist Alliance candidates . |
| 21 | Western scientists were not allowed on the scene then , and for many months afterwards had only restricted access . |
| 22 | Bermuda in the mid-30s was even more charming than it is now : motor cars were not allowed on the island and most residents travelled on bicycles , usually with a large wicker pannier between the handle-bars . |
| 23 | Motor vehicles were not allowed on the grounds . |
| 24 | In , In Holland when we were there motor cars were not allowed on the roads ! |
| 25 | The Liberal Democrats were not working on the hypothesis that the phone would ring to ask them to join a coalition government . |
| 26 | If those men were not working on the gas I would go over there now , and I 'd switch the fire and I 'd leave it on . |
| 27 | Strong groups of men were not needed on the artificial waterways ; two people and a horse sufficed . |
| 28 | Well it was to be helpful to the er to Mr and Scotton Parish Council that what what I was saying was , we were n't relying on the key diagram to justify at some future date , it being an outer northern relief road , that decision would have to be defended at future enquiry . |
| 29 | We were n't working on the hard drive . |
| 30 | This principle was not lost on the creative . |