Example sentences of "was not use " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her seat on the board was never formally revoked ; it was just that it was clear she was not to use it . |
| 2 | Hospital sources said that the Royal Oldham was not using the controversial ‘ cook-chill ’ method under which pre-cooked food is re-heated by microwave on the ward . |
| 3 | He was not using Fairbrother 's soap , Richard was sure of that , even though his mother had made sure that he had been supplied with the exact brand most popular at the school . |
| 4 | The ‘ bourgeois economist ’ would certainly claim that such an enterprise was not using resources efficiently to satisfy consumers ' wants and therefore would not merit investment funds and we have to ask whether he would be wrong . |
| 5 | 160 , the visitors observed that Lord Denning was not using the word ‘ delegate ’ in the narrow sense in which it is sometimes used today any more than Lord Mansfield had when he used the same word in a similar context in Rex v. Benchers of Gray 's Inn , 1 Doug . |
| 6 | More importantly , he was a little wary of her father and not at all sure that Burkett was not using Sylvia as bait for a cast of his own . |
| 7 | The person who prescribed the medicine may have had homoeopathic experience but was not using homoeopathy in this case . |
| 8 | He was not using it to further his own human development , he was using it up for the profit of the people who paid him , the anonymous shareholders and their abstract interests . |
| 9 | Police said later that the shotgun was not used during the assault . |
| 10 | It must have been discouraging that Adieu was not thought worthy to be given at Sadler 's Wells , and that the more handsome setting which Stevenson had designed for it was not used at that time . |
| 11 | Even the concept of the hour was not used as a unit of duration before the time of Middle French . |
| 12 | As late as the fifteenth century it is doubtful whether people in general knew the current year of the Christian era , since that depended on an ecclesiastical computation and was not used much in everyday life . |
| 13 | The first car to Clifton Drive — as the new terminus was known — was toastrack 82 , but the track was not used regularly until the start of the 1927 season . |
| 14 | The church probably held some two hundred people but was not used a great deal in the 1920's . |
| 15 | if there was any obvious possibility of separate role-mappings predominating at the level of sentence-based case , the material was not used . |
| 16 | Mummification was not used in Syria in the first century , but the bodies may have been preserved in Egypt . |
| 17 | However , s 2(8) did not apply to information provided under s 236 of the Insolvency Act 1986 , and it was argued on Mr Naviede 's behalf that disclosure of the transcript to the SFO should only be made on condition that it was not used in evidence . |
| 18 | As regards the claim in respect of additional lighting , he said that Wimpy International v Warland had decided that lighting that did no more than provide general illumination was not plant , as it was not used for carrying on the business . |
| 19 | Feeling some shyness — he was not used to social life , and this looked to be above his station — he used the brass knocker , polished as it was to show one 's face , distorted , as though in a mirror at a fair . |
| 20 | This explained why LGS was not used by mothers to treat many of the cases of loose stool presented by children , since the mothers ' diagnosis was of one other than daeria . |
| 21 | It is strange that although this technology was known it was not used by Kentish craftsmen for nearly 50 years . |
| 22 | However , it was not used in the Second World War , nor in many other wars . |
| 23 | This was not used directly until 1956 , with the creation of a European Settlement Fund . |
| 24 | So , for example , a request that evidence be taken on oath would be complied with in Switzerland despite the fact that the oath was not used under local procedure . |
| 25 | If one reads the Gospels themselves , with no preconceptions whatever , there is nothing to suggest that the title was not used in all seriousness — was not perfectly legitimate and acknowledged as such by at least some of Jesus 's contemporaries , including Pilate . |
| 26 | The caption on p.34 bottom left states that the Merriam knapsack was standard issue ; in fact , of course , the Merriam was an unpopular novelty issued to certain units on a trial basis ( e.g. the 71st NY Volunteer Infantry ) and was not used at the front in any great numbers . |
| 27 | The highest success rate was obtained for the following question : The diagram had a square grid and the question was phrased " How many squares … ? " ; the word " area " was not used . |
| 28 | Sebastian was not used to dope and one night he drowned in the swimming-pool . |
| 29 | But whatever the government 's motivation , the Official Secrets Act — a steamroller of an Act , as it then stood , which made it an offence to divulge almost anything of any kind ascertained in the course of official duties — was not used . |
| 30 | Window glass was not used even in the ruler 's konak . |