Example sentences of "was [not/n't] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This principle was not lost on the creative . |
| 2 | The irony was not lost on the smiling Scot yesterday when he said : ‘ I wo n't be making comparisons or drawing conclusions on Wednesday . |
| 3 | The point was not lost on the City , which , pleasantly relieved by the results and cheered by an increase in the final dividend , marked the shares up by 27p . |
| 4 | Her anxious query was not lost on the man sitting opposite her . |
| 5 | It therefore asserted what it considered to be the position at which the public/private distinction should be fixed , a position which would allow prostitution to be effectively a private matter as long as it was not conducted on the streets . |
| 6 | The Santa Cruz Operation has reversed itself on what to name its SCO Forum ‘ Product of the Year ’ and has gone with Applix Inc after getting complaints that Clarity Inc , its first pick , was not delivering on the SCO platform nor did it even have such an animal in beta : SCO is kind of lax in its standards . |
| 7 | What you quickly learned was not to sit on the end of the row , because the usherettes would pass the trays down the row and as soon as everybody was served they 'd give the nod to the projectionist , the lights would go down again , and on the film would go . |
| 8 | To her relief , Elinor was not slumped on the floor ; deathly white , she clung for support to the silver brocade hangings of her bed . |
| 9 | It was made clear to a friend of mine who was dying that he was not wanted on the ward , not through words but by the minimum care he was given after an unsuccessful operation and the refusal of any doctor to speak to him . |
| 10 | With unfailing respect , may I ask why I was not called on the Yarrow statement ? |
| 11 | By a notice of appeal dated 1 March 1991 the defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the donee of the power of appointment , the defendant 's mother , Mrs. Mary Steed , did not know that she had been appointed attorney by the defendant and accordingly could not have known that she had any power to deal with his property when she executed the transfer of 4 September 1979 , and that in those circumstances the plea of non est factum ought to have succeeded on the judge 's finding that the donee was tricked into signing the transfer ; ( 2 ) the judge having rightly concluded that the transaction as affected was not a sale , save possibly at such a gross undervalue as to vitiate it as a sale , should therefore have held that the transfer was void and ineffective ; ( 3 ) the judge having rightly concluded that he retained a discretion to rectify the charges register against the registered holder , notwithstanding , as he found , that ( i ) the title of the mortgagors , Mr. and Mrs. Hammond , was merely voidable and not void , and ( ii ) that the registered holders of the charge were bona fide mortgagees for value without notice of the facts giving rise to voidability , then wrongly exercised his discretion to refuse to rectify since the considerations in favour of rectification could hardly have been stronger and his refusal to exercise his discretion was tantamount to denying the effective existence of such discretion , as if it was not exercised on the facts of this case it could never , or virtually never , be exercised at all ; and that , in the premises , the judge had erred in law in placing excessive reliance upon ( i ) and ( ii ) above to the exclusion of the other considerations which favoured rectification . |
| 12 | When I was not swinging on the goalposts , I was arguing with the rest of the girls ( or playing ‘ chasy ’ games with the boys ) . |
| 13 | Maria Candida ordered the following morning , and when Sara obeyed slipped the kirtle over her head , pulling the skirt down over her waist and making sure the bodice was not twisted on the girl 's white shoulders . |
| 14 | Interestingly , this family lives in the area that is our poorest responder to the monthly listings of infants where parental choice was not stated on the screening sample ( fig 2 , area 27 ) . |
| 15 | This CCL was not based on the capabilities of any one system , and it attempted to provide for all the facilities through any existing bibliographic information system . |
| 16 | This was not based on the fact that a trade union was an unincorporated body , for in Taff Vale Railway Co . |
| 17 | A motion which would have specifically committed ] the party against fusion was not put on the chairman 's decision ; the diehards accepted this ruling without demur , no doubt because they felt that they had already made their point . |
| 18 | His request was not complied with , and the Hearing was not convened on the first lawful day after the children 's removal . |
| 19 | The Secretary of State further emphasised that the Government was not embarking on the privatisation of the NHS . |
| 20 | When proposing this fusion of functions , Tim Renton stressed that the prospective department was not modelled on the French Ministry of Culture ; it will doubtless develop rather ad hoc at the outset and its role , number of staff and size of budget will depend crucially on the views of the new Minister . |
| 21 | The song , properly known as the ‘ Song of the Western Men ’ , was not sung on the road : it was not written until two centuries later , by the eccentric Parson Hawker of Morwenstow , ( in the intervals between scaring his parishioners by dressing as a mermaid and singing on the seashore ) . |
| 22 | For once her interest was not centred on the Grand Prix , but on her father , and his reasons for coming out to Spain to find her . |
| 23 | But in the end the Battle of Britain was not fought on the land , but in the air . |
| 24 | As a result , the 1970 general election was not fought on the basis of the new boundaries recommended by the boundary commissioners . |
| 25 | Paul had plenty but as , owing to a fixed and completely unbreakable appointment with the F.G.Y. , he was not going on the tour , his ideas were of no consequence . |
| 26 | A returned value of zero signifies that the specified file was not found on the specified ( or default ) device . |
| 27 | A returned value of zero signifies that the specified file was not found on the specified ( or default ) device . |
| 28 | Some of the things under the heading of work which was not allowed on the Sabbath were sowing , reaping , threshing , preparing food , spinning , putting out a fire , lighting a fire , carrying a burden and writing two letters of the alphabet . |
| 29 | He got that way , if he was n't drunk on the days he should have been summonsed they used to trip him up . |
| 30 | This list was n't compiled on the spur of the moment . |