Example sentences of "were not [verb] at [art] " in BNC.

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1 And Tory arguments that the tax would make companies uncompetitive were not looking at the whole picture .
2 The colleges have always taken the view that accreditation was not a prerequisite for appointment ; a recent survey revealed that approximately one third of physicians were not accredited at the time of their appointment .
3 In pursuing their administrative and legislative strategies , the Reaganites were not fiddling at the margin or tinkering with the status quo .
4 However , since those changes were not finalised at the date of going to press and further revisions are possible in the light of comments it is not appropriate to review them here .
5 In a statement tonight , the Hunt said the hounds were not hunting at the time of incident and were not out of control .
6 The only problem was that the big men in Formula One were not delegated at the Plenary Conference of FISA and so did not have a vote .
7 The court decided that the adoption by the Secretary of State of this general policy , which had the result that the judicial views were not sought at the earliest opportunity after conviction and sentence , was unlawful .
8 Similarly , mental hospitals were not built at the suggestion of psychiatrists , and psychiatrists have not been responsible as a profession for their run-down and closure .
9 As always in such an undertaking , the art of organization lay in the avoidance of offending those who were not asked at a particular moment and in the ability to remember enmities and jealousies which could cause friction and poison the atmosphere if the wrong people found themselves together .
10 Leading anti-whaling nations such as Ireland , France and New Zealand were not represented at the Madrid meeting .
11 It is difficult to compare the relatively large destabilising effect observed for the octamers in this study , to the smaller effect noted when single d3CA residues were incorporated into the d(GACGATATCGTC) 2 duplex , since the T m measurements were not performed at the same pH ( 4 ) .
12 The other IgG subclasses were not correlated at the cellular level in either ulcerative colitis or Crohn 's disease twins .
13 The Revenue has raised an assessment charging tax in excess of £20,000 and has refused retirement relief on the sale of the milk quota because no land was sold ; farming continued after the sale ( in the Revenue 's view the provisions of s 53(2)TA88 mean that when a farmer changes the nature of his farming there is a continuation of the old trade and that the old and the new are equally applicable for CGT purposes ) ; the sales of the herd and milk quota were not effected at the same time .
14 In 1959 Dore Ashton was dismissed by the New York Times , the charges being that her articles were not aimed at a wide newspaper audience , and her articles on work by artist friends gave evidence of bias ( her husband , whose work she was forbidden to review , was a painter and print-maker called Adja Yunkers ) .
15 The effect of the Acts ‘ was to remove legal immunity from almost all forms of industrial action that were not aimed at the worker 's immediate employer or related conditions of work ’ .
16 Details of the materials in the chapel were not known at the time the official report into the £60 million blaze was put together .
17 Courtney 's accident happened on the very first lap when he was in the lead at Mather 's Cross between Coleraine and Portrush and he was taken to hospital although his injuries were not known at the course .
18 As a rule , political matters were not discussed at the Three Jolly Watermen .
19 The three squads making for the northern caisson , including Bob Burtenshaw 's men who were not needed at the southern caisson , were less fortunate .
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