Example sentences of "[was/were] not on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our duels were not on the scale of the later Clarke versus Prescott battles , where in the 1987 general election I saw a television chairman leave his chair several times to restore order . |
| 2 | The people that were left behind such as the section leaders — the gunnery leader , flight engineer leader , navigation leader and one or two people that were not on the battle order for that night , would meet these people and speak to them . |
| 3 | I was once offered a John Wesley letter which had the slight blemish of being written on paper watermarked some thirty years after the evangelist died , and on another occasion a letter from a supposed Trafalgar seaman , mentioning officers and members of the crew who were not on the muster roll of the ship concerned . |
| 4 | One of the odder aspects of the 1992 election was the anecdotal evidence from polling station officers who reported to the Market Research Society that many people tried to vote , but only discovered that they were not on the register when they got to the polling station . |
| 5 | Pre-election allegations that large numbers of citizens had been excluded from the electoral roll led to an agreement allowing citizens to vote with an identity card if their name were not on the register . |
| 6 | But despite Mr Koo 's slip , the Taiwanese side was at pains to stress that the big issues of its international status and political relationship with the mainland were not on the agenda . |
| 7 | Woes were not on the agenda . |
| 8 | Indeed , it was necessary for the Government to carry the management of those companies with them so that any radical measures to expose the industries to serious restructuring or competition were not on the agenda . |
| 9 | According to the Far Eastern Economic Review of Dec. 28 , Yang stressed that military topics were not on the agenda . |
| 10 | Captain Graham Gooch insisted within minutes of Australia 's first Test victory that wholesale changes were not on the agenda . |
| 11 | Although the organized activists were not on the whole the very poor , the poorest joined the demonstration . |
| 12 | Lord Herschell was angered by this idea and , says Professor Heuston , ‘ the High Court judges at that time , many of whom were Halsbury 's own appointments , were not on the whole notable for progressive views on social or industrial matters . ’ |
| 13 | As far as the head of Southend was concerned , staff were not on the whole self-critical during the self-appraisal . |
| 14 | The Caribbeans who came to London in the main waves of migration in the 1950s and early 1960s were not on the whole from the lowest social classes , although " the employment made available to West Indians was mainly menial and often of lower status than the jobs they had left behind them in the West Indies " ( Dalphinis 1991 : 46 ) . |
| 15 | John Aitken , defending , said he would be trying to persuade the court not to confiscate some of the weapons which were not on the charge . |
| 16 | From school I knew this parable by heart , and I think the reader must have known it too , because as he reached the concluding sentences , his frail hands were already feeling for the embroidered marker and preparing to close the great heavy book , so that his eyes were not on the page but were gazing unseeing into mine as he spoke the final well-worn words , ‘ Then said Jesus unto him , ‘ Go , and do thou likewise . ’ ’ |
| 17 | Mr Justice Jowitt told Anderson : ‘ I accept that you were not on the prowl looking for a victim and that it was by chance that this young lady got into your car . |
| 18 | We know , and they know , that if we were not on the project , in the meeting , or in any way involved , the issue of sexuality would simply be entirely glossed over . |
| 19 | But then terrific top-end power and tarmac-scorching standing starts were not on the design team 's agenda . |
| 20 | Kunstavisen reports in its March/April number that not only did many artists protest because they were not on the list but one contacted them to say that he had lost the possibility of a big exhibition because he had not been included . |
| 21 | Her mind was not on the film , however , and she left after an hour . |
| 22 | I admit that I was not on the Committee and that I am on a steeply rising part of the learning curve , but I shall reach the asymptote fairly soon . |
| 23 | Unlike the Minister , I am not sorry that I was not on the Committee ; I am pleased that I missed it . |
| 24 | DeFries was not on the road , I was not on the road and I think David began to feel very abandoned by this company MainMan . |
| 25 | DeFries was not on the road , I was not on the road and I think David began to feel very abandoned by this company MainMan . |
| 26 | ‘ So my first erotic drawing was not on the back of an envelope ’ he wrote , ‘ but a week or so 's work on a decent piece of stone … |
| 27 | At the time , in a cosmopolitan place , racism was not on the agenda . |
| 28 | Although Pretoria said the release of Mr Mandela himself was not on the agenda , that decision appears to be his own . |
| 29 | Inevitably this meant that the tax-credit system proposed by the Heath Government was not on the agenda and nor were some of the more ambitious income-guarantee schemes which inevitably required reform of taxation and social security being taken together . |
| 30 | Mr Blair said the leadership was not on the agenda , adding : ‘ Mr Kinnock had a brilliant campaign . ’ |