Example sentences of "was [not/n't] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , as Gordon Phillips has argued , the pattern of trade union activity and industrial relations was not altered by the General Strike . |
| 2 | Therefore the clearance of G17 was not altered by the eradication of H pylori . |
| 3 | This principle was not lost on the creative . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Her anxious query was not lost on the man sitting opposite her . |
| 7 | The Law Lords held that this publication was protected by qualified privilege : the Council had a duty to leap to the General 's defence , and the privilege was not lost by the fact of world-wide publication , because " a man who makes a statement on the floor of the House of Commons makes it to all the world … it was only plain justice to the General that the ambit of contradiction should be spread so wide as , if possible , to meet the false accusation wherever it went . " |
| 8 | But solicitors for the reluctant buyers say the car was not built to the original specification . |
| 9 | Capitalist economy was not built as the result of an overall , collective , decision ; no one nor one group sat down and said ‘ we shall now proceed to build capitalism . ’ |
| 10 | Furthermore , Macbeth did not murder Duncan in his palace of Cawdor in Nairn , since the castle there was not built until the fourteenth century ; and Duncan was not the pitiable old greybeard portrayed in the play but a ruthless and ambitious man regarded by many as a usurper . |
| 11 | The convention established the International Civil Aviation Organization with its headquarters in Montreal and set up a secretariat which would become a most effective machine for ensuring that a rapidly developing civil aviation industry was not hampered by the red tape generated by the hundreds of frontiers that would have to be crossed . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | If Hughes was relevant to the decision in Foakes it must follow that Pinnel 's Case was equally relevant to the decision in Hughes but it was not cited in the latter case and it would surely have been very surprising it if had been . |
| 14 | Although this case was not cited in the Imperial Foods Ltd |
| 15 | Putting it in different words , the trick was not applied to the appellants ; they voluntarily applied themselves to the trick . |
| 16 | A final settlement of the British problem was not reached until the June 1984 Fontainebleau summit , when a rebate system effectively halved the net contribution . |
| 17 | an equivalent car would be available to a company secretary who was not related to the managing director of the company ; |
| 18 | His proudest moment during this period was not related to the theatre but to football , specifically to his team winning the Malaga Cup . |
| 19 | Total duration of taking oral contraceptives was not related to the risk of endometriosis ( table IV ) . |
| 20 | While some felt frightened about participating in an organization which was not related to the church , others were very enthusiastic . |
| 21 | However , since the court held that a requirement that the crew reside on shore in the member state in question was not related to the aim of the quota system , no reason can be seen which might induce the court to take the view that residence and domicile requirements imposed on all owners and operators of fishing vessels and on 75 per cent . |
| 22 | Cardiovascular mortality was not related to the duration of gestation except for a small increase in death rates in men born prematurely . |
| 23 | According to a response prediction model , the observed response rate was not related to the selection of patients likely to respond . |
| 24 | This was not related to the duration of diarrhoea ( χ 2 test , p>0.05 ) . |
| 25 | For clinicians without access to bone densitometry , these results are helpful in showing that the improvement with HRT was similar in both Crohn 's disease and ulcerative colitis ; in addition , the response to oestrogens was not related to the patients age or the number of postmenopausal years . |
| 26 | Fourth , although subsidiarity was not defined in the Single European Act , it was certainly understood to be a principle which applied . |
| 27 | However , the contested takeover of Imperial by Hanson was not referred to the MMC as it did not adversely affect competition or the ‘ public interest ’ . |
| 28 | The quality of honey was not affected by the mite , he said , but production could be hit if numbers of the mites multiplied rapidly throughout the country . |
| 29 | But Gallup says it was not affected by the CBS promotion . |
| 30 | In the eighth and ninth centuries the killing age of domestic animals was earlier in rural contexts , whereas at Hamwic the bones do not reveal such early mortality , implying that the town , divorced from the wild , was not affected by the immediate hazards of the land . |