Example sentences of "were [not/n't] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was odd , but Greg noticed Bill Clough 's eyes following them sharply : he was saying nothing to the purpose so there was no reason why he should n't watch them , but Greg , following his lead , did wonder whether Hilary 's mutterings were not of a rather different kind from Desmond 's . |
| 2 | We held out strongly in the EC to have our standards implemented widely throughout the Community and when it was clear that other nations were not of a similar mind , we voted against the directive . |
| 3 | I doubt if Andrew , as a Lowlander , ever wore the kilt and I am certain that his skills as a piper were not of a high standard . |
| 4 | We then went on to Sydenham and Lewisham and looked that , and erm the general feeling was the Walter Segal houses were not of a sufficiently high standard to be satisfactory for people on our housing waiting list . |
| 5 | Perhaps the jeweller she kept house for could read , but the things Sarah wanted to say were not for a stranger 's eyes . |
| 6 | Compaq Computer Corp 's first quarter earnings were better than the highest of Wall Street estimates and some analysts said that if it were not for a negative impact from currency translations , profits would have been a bit higher still . |
| 7 | That was removed from 16 to 18-year-olds who were not on a Government course or in full-time education . |
| 8 | We were not at a party , he did not go in for brunettes , and I was very much his junior . |
| 9 | The male contestants , the jury found , were not worth a mention . |
| 10 | Indeed , I would go further and conclude that at least in relation to the last three payments the plaintiffs were not under a mistake of law but were strongly of the view that they were under no liability to pay . |
| 11 | The sky clears in the childbirth sequence because of Shatov 's sublime murmurings about the arrival of a new human being , but also because the midwife has her sleeves rolled up , because she is attacking a difficult and strenuous professional job , organizing essentials , masterminding the whole exercise , scolding Marie Shatov who allowed Shatov to get between her and the family in which she was a governess ‘ with the egotistical object of marrying you , laughing at the distraught husband on his knees unable either to bear the sound or block his ears before the birth ; and when all is tidied up , ‘ after some pleasant–es about ‘ the happy couple' ’ which were not without a touch of contempt and superciliousness , she went away as well satisfied as before . ’ |
| 12 | Speaking in Perth yesterday at a press briefing on possible future strategies for the arable sector following the new set- aside regulations , a chemical manufacturer , Peter Botham of WBC Technology , gave warning that the increases which farmers have enjoyed in recent months in grain values were not without a cost . |
| 13 | It has been suggested that the carved metope was in fact a western idea only later imitated in Greece proper , and that the metopes from the foundations of the Sicyonian Treasury were not from a Sicyonian building but perhaps a Syracusan . |
| 14 | The remnants were not from a Second World War Spitfire , as some believed , but from a Hawker Hunter jet which crashed on a routine flight 33 years ago . |
| 15 | It was infinitely more unnerving than that though , for they were not in a sealed room but out in the open , with the air rent with cries from the crowd : screams of naked terror and prayers for deliverance . |
| 16 | They accepted that Mr Goodman would suffer financial hardship as a result , but said that they were not in a position to judge whether his dismissal had been justified , so that it could not be said that his difficulties had been caused by the company 's conduct . |
| 17 | Like most Romanians , who were not in a position to exercise any discretion in the matter , the couple had an almost slavish regard for the most commercialized features of capitalist culture . |
| 18 | If for example women were turned down more often than men because their employment history was shorter , they were not in a skilled job , and they did not have a bank account , this would not constitute discrimination against women — as the conditions , only part of an overall scoring system , would not be absolute . |
| 19 | While they had not asked for permission to enter his lands and claimed they were not in a position to pay for the disturbance , they promised he would be well looked after if the find was as good as appeared . |
| 20 | North London-based staff who were not in a category entitled to home relocation allowances , or who had an additional mileage of less than 15 miles were entitled to receive additional commuting costs . |
| 21 | They were not in a very good state of conservation , having been drastically overcleaned in previous restoration campaigns sponsored by the Carthusian monks . |
| 22 | The Community Mothers initiative was developed in the Eastern Health Board because Public Health Nurses were not in a position to expand the work due to the demands of their caseloads . |
| 23 | It is true that this word is mentioned in the Bible , but it was rightly applied then , for these unhappy creatures mentioned were not in a position to make themselves understood . |
| 24 | Since Picasso and Braque had not exhibited for some time , and since they had not taken part in the manifestations at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d'Automne , the public were not in a position to realize that their abstention deprived the Section d'Or of much of its meaning . |
| 25 | They were not in a position to remind them that " an Ammonite and a Moabite shall not enter the congregation of the Lord " ( Deut. 23.4 ) — if it is true that the Tobiads were Ammonites . |
| 26 | It is possible he may have observed something you were not in a position to see , ’ Rose explained diplomatically . |
| 27 | Where the sum insured is inadequate i.e. is lower than the actual value of the total property at risk and the lost or damaged items were not in a new condition . |
| 28 | Speaking after a visit to South Africa , Ellemann-Jensen concluded that the security forces were not in a position to supervise a democratic transition . |
| 29 | Dundee , a university whose publishing and citation counts were low , felt that their consultation records were not in a proper state for the derivation of meaningful statistics . |
| 30 | The Court of Appeal in Sybron were not in a position to criticise the House of Lords decision in Bell v Lever Bros Ltd [ 1931 ] AC 161 though they distinguished it . |