Example sentences of "was [not/n't] [verb] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This scheme was not applied to tax due on interest earned from bank accounts until 1985 . |
| 2 | It was not conceived to address many of the concerns uppermost in social workers ' minds . |
| 3 | It was not intended to sound biased . |
| 4 | It was not intended to give this impression , and we take this opportunity to make that clear and to apologize for any embarrassment caused . |
| 5 | Lloyd George claimed that the pension was not intended to give full subsistence , merely an addition and an incentive to desirable private saving . |
| 6 | Not surprisingly , given the well-known stance of the Seven on political unity , EFTA was not intended to have any political implications , and so it was not deemed necessary for it to have an elaborate institutional structure . |
| 7 | The fact that you have been able to spend your whole time on the core of the question is itself some indication that the question was not intended to have any wider scope . |
| 8 | Under a similar provision in the Bankruptcy Act 1914 it had been held that a defect in a bankruptcy notice of a kind such as could reasonably mislead the debtor was not a mere formal defect or irregularity within the meaning of that provision , and therefore rendered the notice a nullity even though it was not calculated to cause substantial injustice . |
| 9 | Guarantees of outside funding from sources including the Josiah Macy Jr Foundation , American Medical International , and Hewlett-Packard also smoothed the introduction of the scheme , which was not seen to present any financial threat to the traditional course . |
| 10 | They found that young mothers seemed to give health visitors a more idealized version of how they treated their babies than the account they gave to Elizabeth Newson , who was not seen to have any authority over them . |
| 11 | The king-duke was sovereign and was not bound to pay any homage , fealty or feudal service to the crown of France . |
| 12 | Thus in Smith v Hughes ( 1871 ) LR 6 QB 597 , it was held that the seller of oats could not hold the buyer to the contract of sale if the seller was aware that the buyer was intending to accept an offer to sell oats warranted to be old , where , in fact , the seller was not intending to give any such warranty . |
| 13 | He said that it was felt that the change would give both parties more freedom of choice , and stressed that he would continue to use Tory on a freelance basis and was not intending to appoint another stable jockey before the end of the season . |
| 14 | The Builder had an editorial on 19th February which contained extracts from a letter from Scott reasserting that his design was better lit , as convenient and no more expensive than a classical design , and it commented that Scott 's opponents did not understand that he was not intending to reproduce old forms rigidly and he was only willing to introduce ‘ the refinements and inventions of our own day ’ . |
| 15 | Maurice was not born to make a profit , but then , was not born to resent this , or anything else . |
| 16 | She was given no explanation and was not recommended to take legal advice . |
| 17 | He chose not to read for a fellowship and once it became clear that he was no longer in the race for academic honours he was not required to take all the examinations . |
| 18 | He was not permitted to call other officers of the Council in his defence and he was found guilty of 12 offences and dismissed . |
| 19 | Since many of the acts penalised are likely to amount to offensive conduct within the terms of section 5 , it is to be regretted that the opportunity was not taken to examine this jurisprudential anachronism which , although it no longer carries a power of arrest , should perhaps be either modernised or repealed in its entirety . |
| 20 | But this was not taken to mean any loosening of the monopoly of political power by the Bolsheviks . |
| 21 | The crudity of the ‘ opinion research ’ of some SD agents was not designed to elicit critical comment . |
| 22 | The overriding criticism of the National Curriculum proposals was that it was not designed to achieve significant fundamental aims : it did not obviously focus upon ‘ great issues , principles and values ’ , or on the development of fundamentally important attitudes and skills , which educators , industrialists , and all those concerned with the welfare of society and the enrichment of the individual , would see as paramount . |
| 23 | The scheme was not designed to provide widespread relief in a period of mass unemployment . |
| 24 | The Act of 1988 was not designed to make sure that the United Kingdom fishing quotas actually benefited the persons who were intended to benefit thereby . |
| 25 | Our study was not designed to address these possibilities , but they deserve further investigation . |
| 26 | The infirmaries at the plant were shut , Chernobyl 's medical centre was not equipped to take nuclear cases , there were few iodine pills to distribute — although they are the only way of preventing radioactive iodine from accumulating in the thyroid . |
| 27 | Just to show that ‘ God 's Own County ’ actually takes a back seat now and again I reproduce a photograph from the Divisional Dinner , which took place last autumn but was not published to allow other articles ( from other Divisions ) to be printed . |
| 28 | Although it had followed Cusick 's design , the model was not judged to look busy enough . |
| 29 | 5-Fluorouracil , which was the standard treatment until one or two years ago , was not considered to prolong median survival , although a controlled trial against no chemotherapy has never been done . |
| 30 | This suggests that a localised , contained conflict was not considered to justify discriminatory suspension of third party rights . |