Example sentences of "was not [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That there was no such party this year was not through lack of determination on Cranmer 's part . |
| 2 | This back-dating of the appointment was not of significance at the time but it is an early example of how masters in Stockport could come and go without the immediate supervision of the Company . |
| 3 | But it seems to me that the wife might thereafter have offered to return and might have ceased to be in desertion , and that clause 2 would at that stage and in that event have been in operation : therefore it does not seem to me that it can be said that clause 2 was not of value to the husband . |
| 4 | For them the difficulty was not to change from Latin but to move from the language of the Prayer Book to that of the ASB . |
| 5 | My objection was not to discussion of the subject , but to the refusal of those who might be expected to be clear and able spokesmen of the Church to commit themselves to a firm position on right and wrong . |
| 6 | At the moment , Fergie 's high-flyers look as if they can only give away the title if it was not for carelessness against Newcastle they would still have a 100% record . |
| 7 | If the Eastern District was less successful in some respects than it would have liked to be , it was not for want of trying . |
| 8 | But it was not for want of feeling or … principles . ’ |
| 9 | Though the archival evidence shows that if the Masai did not change it was not for want of trying on the part of the administration , it was convenient in some quarters to suppose that it was . |
| 10 | I never read any of them although it was not for want of trying . |
| 11 | Though he was to fail in his exploitation of this , it was not for want of seeking to undermine national self-confidence through sardonic innuendo or weaken the will to resist by boasts of the invincible military initiative now held by the Wehrmacht . |
| 12 | This position as ‘ also attending ’ in the daily panoply of style was not for want of effort : ‘ the Dedicated Follower of Fashion ’ was no sartorial doormat ; but it was acceptable and expected that the female , complete with which ever secondary sexual characteristic was currently ‘ in ’ , should be the object of absolute scrutiny . |
| 13 | This was not for lack of punitive methods . |
| 14 | He did not succeed but it was not for lack of trying . |
| 15 | It was not for lack of space . |
| 16 | The government 's initial failure to hold spending down in the early 1980s was not for lack of trying . |
| 17 | The judge said that the officer was not on trial for being a ‘ faithless husband , womanising in his motor car or for breaching police regulations ’ . |
| 18 | I 'm not at my best in red , so you could say I was not on top of the world . ’ |
| 19 | Alice hoped it was not on account of Jasper though , clearly , to make that emotional speech had not been to clever . |
| 20 | ‘ That 's my fault , naturally ! ’ she snapped , not halting in her step , but knowing that if Travis had gone to get plastered , as was probably true , it was not on account of her . |
| 21 | She had to run the barrage of more glances as she made her way over to the new extension , but she knew then that people looking at her was not on account of her being half an hour late , but on account of everyone , it seemed , knowing of her engagement . |
| 22 | This probably accounted for the fact that she was not on duty at the theatre as much as she should have been and was very moody when she was there . |
| 23 | Simon was a help to her , keeping the surface going , making the hours pass when she was not on duty at her canteen . |
| 24 | Mr Goldring said the only possible candidates were the defendant and staff nurse Morris but the staff nurse was not on duty on 28 March when another child was injected with a massive dose of insulin . |
| 25 | It is hard to think of any useful commodity that was not on offer in this thriving market town . |
| 26 | The Commission stated that it was not at present in a position to indicate which measures it might propose to the Council in that report . |
| 27 | If Richard was not at home with words , still less was he at home with questions of a personal nature . |
| 28 | Betty 's stated guiding principle , that every child should experience success , was not at variance with the philosophy behind the school-imposed innovation with which she had been virtually obliged to become involved . |
| 29 | Tallboy himself was not without sympathy for this apocalyptic vision but it occurred to him to wonder who Jefferson thought the forces of justice were . |
| 30 | The movement was not without criticism from those whose support might have been taken for granted ; Robertson Nicoll pronounced the 1894 Congress a ‘ failure ’ because ‘ it does not represent Nonconformity and it is wholly lacking in enthusiasm and initiative . ’ |