Example sentences of "was not [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this time he was not moving out of her reach . |
| 2 | However , McCann 's assumption that because the DHAC espoused a theory of fundamental class antagonisms , this was accepted by all who applauded their actions , was not borne out by events . |
| 3 | It was assumed by most American policy-makers that the Soviet Union possessed the forces to fulfil a rapid occupation of Manchuria and Korea but this was not borne out by the course of events . |
| 4 | Sadly he rejected this dual instruction and was lost on a low-level marking attack that , had Cochrane been aware that Gibson was not checked out at Warboys , his AOC would have forbidden him to fly that night . |
| 5 | In her letter to BR Mrs. Buttigieg asked why the registration number of her car was not checked out against the season ticket holders ' records . |
| 6 | But Mr Pillsbury was not asked back for a second interview . |
| 7 | The great Civil War battle of Marston Moor , in the vales of Yorkshire , in July 1644 , with Parliamentary troops under the command of Cromwell , Fairfax and Leven , with Lord Manchester in overall command , resulted in a great victory for Parliament , but it was not followed up by Lord Manchester , much to the chagrin of Cromwell , and the Royalists managed a considerable victory in September of that year , at Lostwithiel , thirty miles west of Plymouth . |
| 8 | In this she stated her belief that colour was not tied down to form but instead floated free , and that research into the nature of colour would lead to questions ‘ about being itself ’ . |
| 9 | The wall was not tied in to the end gables . |
| 10 | A public school was more alien to his nature than his father realized : this son was not cut out for a smooth ascent of the ladder of preferment . |
| 11 | Columbus was not cut out for this sort of work . |
| 12 | She was not cut out for subterfuge . |
| 13 | Jamie simply was not cut out for it . |
| 14 | GROWING up on a tobacco farm was enough to convince Cheryl Boston that she was not cut out for the agricultural life . |
| 15 | James in particular , the man earmarked as the lynchpin in the tactical plan , was not living up to expectations . |
| 16 | The day had a shadow in it and waS not living up to its promise . |
| 17 | Eventually she found that apart from keeping up with friends , the answer was not to hang on to the old life but to start new involvements of her own , by finding first part-time paid work and later a voluntary job doing book-keeping and accounting . |
| 18 | One rather exciting will home made will I hasten to add I dealt with last year , the lady of some who was not getting on with her husband and I think although I 'm not absolutely sure that the handwriting is that of her sister and we have this form filled in and it mentioned the bank or special savings account and it mentioned the premium bonds and it mentioned everything in the back bedroom and the linen in the linen and the linen cupboard because she 'd brought all this lot and it failed to appoint an executor and it failed to deal with the residuary estate it meant that technically there was a partial intestacy , as there was a partial intestacy the rules applied to that , first person to inherit ? |
| 19 | All sorts of things seemed to flood in , including the fact that I was not getting on with one of my attendants . |
| 20 | In Sarajevo , UN planes had already started landing at the airport before the formal announcement by the Bosnian capital that it would accept the aid , ending a protest mounted because UN relief was not getting through to 100,000 Muslims cut off by Serbs in eastern Bosnia . |
| 21 | Council leader Chris Foote Wood has explained that Mr Allen Dobson volunteered for early retirement and was not pushed out of office . |
| 22 | But he was not looking down at her , his gaze was remote ; he seemed to be looking through the window into the darkness of the garden . |
| 23 | All this administrative devolution was done by Conservative Governments , and it was not done out of a feeling of national sentiment , but because of the administrative requirements needed to achieve good government for the Scottish people . |
| 24 | Gina was not turned on by these sounds . |
| 25 | ‘ She asked if you were all right , ’ Leith replied , not certain that she was n't breaking confidences , but feeling she would have to be far tougher than she was not to give in to his unspoken plea for some salve on his pain . |
| 26 | It was ‘ the establishment ’ , or one very thick and influential layer of it ; but it certainly was not made up of stuffed shirts and Colonel Blimps along with their twittering wives . |
| 27 | However , he is still with us , and his contribution from the Dispatch Box was in his usual style , as if this House was not made up of Members of Parliament , but delegates , all with their blue rinses and red necks , applauding to the rafters when he makes one of his roustabout speeches to the Conservative party conference . |
| 28 | Although the quinary system was not widely taken up , especially outside Britain , it was not dismissed out of hand as a figment of MacLeay 's and Swainson 's imaginations . |
| 29 | As its prospectus very properly pointed out , the subsidiary Crane Engineering Ltd was in receivership , but this fact was not pointed out to investors by Eyas dealers . |
| 30 | For example , there was no real requirement to handle Training or Sickness and Absenteeism recording ( although it was not ruled out for the future ) . |