Example sentences of "[was/were] not [verb] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , Zuwaya and Magharba thought that their larger groupings were temporary : activated to demand compensation , they then relapsed into the noumenon , leaving households to go about their business ; revenues from taxes were not kept in a fisc , but allocated to household budgets — and so on . |
| 2 | Contraceptive IUDs as such were not developed until 1930 by Ohta in Japan , and were not made in a form suitable for mass use until after the Second World War . |
| 3 | The millwrights and other inventors who were making these technical developments were not operating in a vacuum . |
| 4 | The showmen created an entertainment and annexed an audience in a spectacular initial burst , but , of course , they were not operating in a vacuum and there was one major hurdle that had to be overcome before their victory could be regarded as complete and of permanent rather than fleeting significance . |
| 5 | Discussions of local government reorganisation in Wales were not conducted in an atmosphere of concern over population growth — quite the contrary . |
| 6 | The English actions were not combined in a single trial but subject to an order of Steyn J. which provided for the selection of lead cases to ensure determination of the major points of law and to avoid multiplicity of litigation . |
| 7 | The years were not numbered in a linear succession but according to a particular pharaoh 's reign , each mounting the throne in the year 1 , and also according to the levy of taxes . |
| 8 | Such a strategy would have to be very carefully designed , however , if it were not to result in a huge explosion of word hypotheses . |
| 9 | Effective communication nationally was the one factor missing , German chemists were not concentrated in a particular city , unlike their French counterparts in Paris , and thus a forum was needed . |
| 10 | Often their estates were not concentrated in a single province , but scattered over a number . |
| 11 | Things like that were not forgotten in a hurry . |
| 12 | I sincerely hope that Mrs. X 's complaint was not treated in a dismissive way because , as she readily admitted , she was drunk at the time of the assault . |
| 13 | This claim however was not substantiated in a study with adults ( Hines , 1978 ) . |
| 14 | The purified DNA binding domain of Vmw175 significantly bends the DNA at its binding sites ( 26 ) , whereas VT2 induced bending was not detected in a corresponding analysis . |
| 15 | Moss escaped with his life but the famous " Lucky No.7 " car of his was not seen in a Formula One Grand Prix again although he did later return to saloon car racing . |
| 16 | He could drink for twenty-four hours without stopping , but it was not done in a hurry . |
| 17 | In the remaining 10 US companies , scanning was not done in an independent unit but was undertaken in a more informal manner within the corporate planning department . |
| 18 | This was not done in an initial analysis of LFS data on temporary working ( MSC , 1985 ) , which suggested that there had been an increase in the proportion of the labour force having temporary jobs from 5.9 per cent to 6.4 per cent between 1983 and 1984. 6 . |
| 19 | Even the transition from an artificial to a natural system was not completed in a uniform manner throughout the scientific community . |
| 20 | For he was not killed in a car accident . |
| 21 | After all , earth was not made in a day and there is always scope for a second project once the first has been completed and shown to be a success . |
| 22 | I.C.A.C. sought to appeal , and the occupiers contested the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeal , on the ground that the order of the judge was not made in a civil cause or matter . |
| 23 | He would not , for example , work for the Cuban government because Fidel Castro was not elected in a democratic election . |
| 24 | As Laura 's personal taste was moving away from the little cottage sprigs , Jane believed it was important that she was not deluged in an avalanche of everything that was vaguely old ; that , for example , French eighteenth century was not mixed with Welsh nineteenth century . |
| 25 | Nobody who was not born in a manor house should aspire to one , for if he gets his wish , what a mess that manor house soon will be ! |
| 26 | The main difficulty from our point of view was that AIB was not organised in a manner that lent itself to giving instruction . |
| 27 | However , the study was not designed in a way that would allow the conclusion that physicians were as accurate as psychiatrists in their diagnoses and recommendations . |
| 28 | It did not appear to be caused by needle or pusher , because it was not happening in a regular line — just spasmodically . |
| 29 | His appointment is a further indication that Gloucester was not indulging in a witch-hunt outside the immediate Woodville circle . |
| 30 | His appointment is a further indication that Gloucester was not indulging in a witch-hunt outside the immediate Woodville circle . |