Example sentences of "was not [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But Mr Pillsbury was not asked back for a second interview . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | The wall was not tied in to the end gables . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Columbus was not cut out for this sort of work . |
| 11 | She was not cut out for subterfuge . |
| 12 | Jamie simply was not cut out for it . |
| 13 | GROWING up on a tobacco farm was enough to convince Cheryl Boston that she was not cut out for the agricultural life . |
| 14 | Council leader Chris Foote Wood has explained that Mr Allen Dobson volunteered for early retirement and was not pushed out of office . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Gina was not turned on by these sounds . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | For example , there was no real requirement to handle Training or Sickness and Absenteeism recording ( although it was not ruled out for the future ) . |
| 22 | This signal AC/190 was not sent on to AFHQ until much later in the day on 14 May , and a copy marked " Personal for General Morgan " , the Chief of Staff , was received in Caserta just after midnight , at 0005 hrs . |
| 23 | Railway stock sent from Black Sea ports to another area , the Middle Volga , was not sent back for more grain , but for the most part ended up in Siberia . |
| 24 | However , it was not sent out for review until mid-September , Jones receiving it on the 20th . |
| 25 | The greater part of their duties in terms of expenditure was not handed down to the boroughs but passed over to newly established joint boards for police , the fire brigade , passenger transport and the probation service because these functions require wider operational areas than the boroughs can provide . |
| 26 | So , for example , the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board ( CICB ) is amenable to judicial review even though it was not set up by statute and even though the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme ( CICS ) , which it administers , is non-statutory . |
| 27 | It is sometimes said of bodies such as the CICB that they owe their existence to exercises of ‘ prerogative ’ power , but in this context , this means the same thing as saying that the body was not set up by statute . |
| 28 | The master ordered the limitation issue to be set down for trial within 28 days , but it was not set down until ten months later . |
| 29 | Since work was not put out to rural artificers , clothmaking remained craft-based . |
| 30 | The minister was not put out by the note of impatience in Bertha Cohen 's voice . |