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 | ( 148 ) If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied . |
| 8 | That was removed from 16 to 18-year-olds who were not on a Government course or in full-time education . |
| 9 | The parties were not on an equal footing ; and generally the payer paid the sum demanded in ignorance that it was not due . |
| 10 | The parties were not on an equal footing ; and generally the payer paid the sum demanded in ignorance that it was not due . |
| 11 | In their inception , these authorities were based on the fact that the payer and payee were not on an equal footing and it was this inequality which gave rise to the right to recovery . |
| 12 | We were not at a party , he did not go in for brunettes , and I was very much his junior . |
| 13 | Stool soiling was difficult to assess , many children were not at an age to be toilet trained . |
| 14 | The male contestants , the jury found , were not worth a mention . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | They were not in a very good state of conservation , having been drastically overcleaned in previous restoration campaigns sponsored by the Carthusian monks . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |