Example sentences of "were not [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The judges in that case recognised that decisions of the stewards might affect the public but concluded they were not decisions in the sphere of public law . |
| 2 | The new electronic media of the 1980s , such as cable , satellite TV and video recorders , were not variations in the product reaching the audience , as were those changes in the press . |
| 3 | We are still punishing the Vietnamese long after it is clear they were not victors in any real sense . |
| 4 | In Lawson v Rolfe ( 1969 ) 46 TC 199 , it was held that stock dividends paid under a particular provision in the law of California were not income in the hands of a life tenant of an American will trust . |
| 5 | Gandhi and Nehru , Mandela and Mugabe , or for that matter the late Zulfikhar Bhutto , who complained about the absence of a sense of Pakistani nationhood , are or were not nationalists in the sense of Landsbergis or Tudjman . |
| 6 | He had said , of those who wrecked the town centre in rioting on the sixteenth , that ‘ they were not loyalists in any sense of the word but despicable rebels in the same mould as those in Sinn Fein' . |
| 7 | Although Zuwaya merchants defended themselves against government socialism by claiming that free enterprise worked , they were not capitalists in any reasonable use of the term , the defence forced upon them by Tripoli . |
| 8 | They were not sparrows in such numbers but could be house martins , which settle on west-facing houses to bask in the setting sun . |
| 9 | The Crown submitted that , even if the defendant 's approach be accepted , the defence could not exclude admissible evidence , even if proper notice of it had not been given , and further argued that Zaidie 's evidence ( confirmed by the defendant ) that an accident was not suggested in the telephone call to him was conclusive when taken with the incontrovertible circumstances of the shooting , thereby suggesting that the ‘ irregularities ’ were not material in the sense that the defence could have profited if they had not occurred . |
| 10 | They were not activists in the movement — some of them might have been from the Moss and come to watch the barney — but all were sent to the jail in Inveraray and then taken to Edinburgh for prosecution . |
| 11 | All were , of course , party men , but they were not politicians in the British sense of having won a reputation as fighters in the party battle . |
| 12 | Researchers concluded that chocolate addiction should be treated seriously but also pointed out that many people who called themselves chocoholics because they had a strong liking for the food were not addicts in the true sense of the word . |
| 13 | ‘ I should explain that Matt and I were not lovers in the accepted sense ; we were friends — good friends , we 'd known each other from childhood so we had a lot in common . |
| 14 | Oh they were n't blacksmiths in in the ordinary sense of the word , they were n't quarry blacksmiths as such because they were more or less engine smiths you see . |
| 15 | Erm I 'm not saying that er there were n't problems in security and using public transport and fear of using public transport after dark , but we were quite surprised that compared with the rest of the U K it was erm not acceptable but it gave us an indication on , on where to go from there on , erm and also I think er the important factor that in the lower in Strathclyde that we 've actually consulted women in terms of er what they want and what they need er in the transport world erm in public transport and that 's not lip service we 've actually had discussions groups and that information has been fed into the large erm public transport review that were undertaking at the present time . |
| 16 | They were n't sinners in their own eyes because they did all these little things . |