Example sentences of "were not [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Country house visiting , which had been common in the eighteenth century and Regency when everyone liked to have their taste admired , became infrequent as even the greatest houses closed their gates to visitors , persuaded that the sanctities of ‘ home ’ were not for exhibition to the public eye . |
| 2 | RECORD books will have to be checked to find out when Liverpool Angling Society were not on top of the Wirral Winter League table . |
| 3 | Got home in time to watch the last couple of overs on the television , but then discovered that the highlights were not on TV until 1am . |
| 4 | All the work which had so far been done received very little recognition , because CCs were not on offer to the breed in this country . |
| 5 | Where possible , fieldworkers attempted to record a male and a female at each address , and since very often both were not at home at the time of the first visit , a second and even a third visit was arranged to most addresses . |
| 6 | Despite Swansea lodging a protest , the FA yesterday ruled that Exeter were not at fault for the abandonment . |
| 7 | The larger purposes of God were not at risk of dying of thirst in the desert after all . |
| 8 | The CDU proposed the addition of a clause to the Basic Law ( constitution ) which would allow the authorities to reject applicants for political asylum entering Germany from a third country in which they were not at risk of political persecution . |
| 9 | The declaration said that until such time as Krajina 's separation from Croatia could be negotiated with the Croatian government , Croatian laws would continue to be observed in the region , provided that they were not at variance with federal laws or laws unilaterally adopted by the Krajina government . |
| 10 | Anerley School were not at Banstead for long ; they returned to their own school in November 1942 but had to move again , this time to Yorkshire when the flying-bomb blitz started . |
| 11 | Medieval women were not without authority in the familial and economic spheres even if there was no place for them in public politics . |
| 12 | The words were not like music to Doreen 's ears . |
| 13 | At one stage two large windows were let into the wall each side of the rose window to give more light , but these were removed when the cathedral was restored in the early part of this century as they were not in keeping with the original design . |
| 14 | Results in 1974 were not in keeping with aspirations . |
| 15 | The majority of the psychiatric profession 's members were not in favour of the reform . |
| 16 | All I know is that the Labour Government , who were in favour of the European Community , did not need any convincing that they were not in favour of a federalist united states of Europe . |
| 17 | Yesterday , the EC observers in the conflict areas of Yugoslavia made it clear that they were not in favour of rapid diplomatic recognition of Croatia , which they say would wreck the prospects for negotiating a settlement of the war and increase the chance of hostilities spreading to other parts of the collapsed federation . |
| 18 | Mr Ramrath considered that these conditions were not in accordance with European legislation , and applied to the Luxembourg courts for reinstatement . |
| 19 | As trespass is an interference with possession , it follows that if the plaintiff were not in possession at the date of the alleged meddling , he can not sue for trespass . |
| 20 | ‘ Is a trial judge entitled to refuse to permit the Crown to discontinue a prosecution after the Crown has called evidence which in his judgment could properly sustain a conviction if the jury believed it and provided he has first ascertained in the absence of the jury that the Crown were not in possession of facts of which the judge is unaware , which would justify discontinuance : and when counsel for the Crown decides to take no further part in the case , to call himself the one remaining prosecution witness whose evidence was merely to produce signed and initialled notes of an interview the police had with the defendant ? |
| 21 | ‘ Is a trial judge entitled to refuse to permit the Crown to discontinue a prosecution after the Crown has called evidence which in his judgment could properly sustain a conviction if the jury believed it and before the case for the Crown has been closed , provided he has first ascertained in the absence of the jury that the Crown were not in possession of facts of which the judge is unaware , which would justify discontinuance ; and when counsel for the Crown decides to take no further part in the case , to call himself the one remaining prosecution witness whose evidence was merely to produce signed and initialled notes of an interview the police had with the defendant ? |
| 22 | Certainly , at any particular time during the research period , the majority of users were not in contact with either counselling or medical agencies . |
| 23 | Is th another area that I did n't cover actually when when we were looking at the flats was erm , some people have s have around said that erm flats when they were first up in the first few years , erm were a contrast with the later years , in that erm they did n't have many of the problems , Many of the problems associated with the flats now , didn we were not in existence in the early days of the flats . |
| 24 | A claim might be made by dissentient member States that the actions of the organisation were not in compliance with its treaty . |
| 25 | His parents who flew to Britain from Singapore on hearing the news were not in court as the inquest into his death was opened . |
| 26 | Latvia also declared a transitional period for negotiations on independence , as Estonia had done on March 30 [ see p. 37322 and below ] , but without rejecting the validity of the Soviet Constitution and laws , provided that they were not in conflict with Latvia 's laws and sovereign rights . |
| 27 | Inevitably , the financial consequences were most immediate and dramatic for those women who were not in receipt of benefit or who were the sole wage earners . |
| 28 | As far as the death grant goes , erm for a pensioner that would only be payable erm if somebody actually died within year of leaving pensionable service , due to ill health , and they were not in receipt of an infirmity pension . |
| 29 | And that created a difference of opinion between certain of our members who were not in receipt of any incentive payment , as opposed to those who could clearly indulge in it and , and , and make a reasonable er er profit out of it . |
| 30 | There must have been a proportion of shy , bashful ones around , but they were not in evidence amongst the mob which harassed us day by day as we tried to make our way around the town on our own affairs . |