Example sentences of "was [not/n't] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was some opposition in the Committee but it was not pressed to division , and it seems that the restrictions were reluctantly accepted as part of a package deal to get agreement on the report as a whole . |
| 2 | So the budget fixed for the current year was £20 million and the £7 million underspent in the first two years of the scheme did not go back to the Treasury — it was not lost to computerisation — but was committed to the further development of GP computerisation . |
| 3 | Practical experience ( number of arrests attended ) was not related to skills before or after the course . |
| 4 | Urinary albumin excretion progression was not related to changes in urinary sodium and urea excretion , glycated haemoglobin concentration , or weight , but it was related to the sum of urinary sodium excretion during the whole treatment period ( r '=0.44 , p=0.05 for all patients ; r '=0.39 for enalapril group ; r '=0.36 for hydrochlorothiazide group ) . |
| 5 | Data from 100 deaf and mentally handicapped children showed considerable variability and performance was not related to scores from the Reynell Developmental Language Scales ( see below ) or the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test ( see above ) . |
| 6 | The two patients who had a late relapse died , and in another patient death was not related to lymphoma . |
| 7 | Vital information was not referred to ministers , which meant the puzzle of warnings was never put together . |
| 8 | Unfortunately the post of armourer was not granted to James Graham , but the need to placate Provost Christie still produced action at the Board of Ordnance which transferred the Master Gunner of Stirling Castle to Portsmouth and commissioned the provost 's son-in-law to succeed to the Stirling post . |
| 9 | The fact is , however , that ownership of Chestvale was not transferred to Delion until days before Telecom paid over £9.4m on May 7th , 1990 . |
| 10 | However , that exemption was not extended to entrepreneurs themselves , just to their backers . |
| 11 | Somewhere in her thirties , long abandoned by a useless husband , and with two small children to bring up , she was not given to self-analysis . |
| 12 | She said that in any case , ‘ she was not given to crying ’ . |
| 13 | As NASA 's recently launched Cosmic Background Explorer ( COBE ) confirmed , the background looks the same all over the sky , which implies that the cooling fireball which produced it was not given to clumpiness . |
| 14 | Had it been a ploy it would have been a rewarding one , but Vanessa was not given to ploys . |
| 15 | Melissa was not given to premonition but the fear that something had happened to Sybil had taken hold and would not be shaken off . |
| 16 | Theodora was not given to hyperbole . |
| 17 | Even when whole batches of these ended up on sale rails Laura was not given to tergiversation . |
| 18 | As Mr Leslie had explained earlier he was completely sober and was not given to imagination , he screwed his eyes up looking for the reason for the footsteps ; he could n't see the feet but heard them quite distinctly passing him in the ballast below . |
| 19 | Jazz gave little away , and was not given to complaint . |
| 20 | Her was not given to eloquence about the beauties of the countryside , and was puzzled that he should come out with this remark . |
| 21 | The problem of supervision was not limited to Stockport : in 1652 the Goldsmiths were still regularly paying Read 's £10 to the school in Cromer , but they had no idea whether it was still a Grammar School . |
| 22 | The Project set out to develop and encourage ‘ good practice ’ in the teaching of mathematics to low-attaining pupils , but it became clear at an early stage that low attainment was not limited to pupils in the ‘ bottom 40 per cent ’ attainment range . |
| 23 | The European Court decided that on its wording the Directive was not limited to transfers that involve undertakings of a commercial nature , but applied also to transfers involving non-commercial ventures and was capable of applying to employees in that context also . |
| 24 | Loretta hoped Mr Koogan 's experience of journalists was not limited to representatives of the Sun . |
| 25 | Contrary to what was stated on the form , it was not explained to Miss T. ‘ that it may be necessary to give a blood transfusion so as to prevent injury to my health , or even to preserve my life , ’ nor was the form read or its contents explained to her . |
| 26 | ‘ Reference was not made to Viscount Dilhorne 's ruling that appropriation may occur even though the owner has permitted or consented to the property being taken . |
| 27 | Sometimes there was no dieback or decline , at other times there was dieback but it was not connected to pollution , on occasions trees which had lost a third or more of their vegetation were normal . |
| 28 | North America was not connected to South America . |
| 29 | ‘ I was not engaged to Sir Thomas , Inspector , ’ said Angelina patiently . |
| 30 | I was not sent to school . |