Example sentences of "[was/were] not [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The CID were not unaware of these activities . |
| 32 | They were not convinced of delayed payment until they saw it . |
| 33 | The head did in many cases establish , however , that many of the criticisms were not untypical of other schools in the borough — or indeed of comprehensive schools in general . |
| 34 | LDP were not unhappy with this arrangement as we have a good track record with dividend payments and they believe , as we all do , that the Stoddard group is well placed to prosper in the years ahead , which should me that the share price will rise . |
| 35 | However , we found that routine biochemical measurements taken on admission were not helpful in discriminating patients into those with ARF , AonCRF , or CRF . |
| 36 | This was not just a matter of helping a company and a colony in trouble ; imports were easy to tax , governments found that luxury products were particularly satisfying because their sales were not depressed by high import duties , and tobacco paid duty at a shilling a pound or about 100 per cent of the wholesale price . |
| 37 | Medeva 's OTC products were only turning over £4–4.5m including exports , so they were not viable in this cut throat business . |
| 38 | Even they , however , were not unaffected by patriarchal assumptions . |
| 39 | Modern critics were not good at Anglo-Saxon echoes , especially at ones which hung on into modern times in phrases like ‘ mock ’ and ‘ make ’ , ‘ chance ’ and ‘ choice ’ , ‘ bullet ’ and ‘ billet ’ , all mentioned already in this study . |
| 40 | Should a warning have been included that they were not suitable for indoor use ? |
| 41 | Einstein produced his general theory of relativity during the First World War , when conditions were not suitable for scientific observations , but immediately after the war a British expedition observed the eclipse of 1919 and confirmed the predictions of general relativity : Space-time is not flat , but is curved by the matter and energy in it . |
| 42 | On specification alone it would seem to be a logical alternative to an imagesetter for any small to medium volume publishing house who were not obsessed with typographic detail — ie the majority … |
| 43 | The Senior Management Team were not pleased with this complacency : |
| 44 | This was not as easy as they hoped ; they knew that , however much it might disapprove of their activities , the English government certainly had no power to get its orders obeyed on the western side of the Atlantic , but their charter , which they hoped would make them independent of England , and on which they relied for the legal basis of their community , said — like all the other charters — that they must not pass laws that were not consistent with English laws . |
| 45 | Although students had a small subsidy , the increases represented a further erosion of living standards , for them as well as other urban residents.a Price rises of 30–50 per cent were not uncommon at this time . |
| 46 | Trials of this kind were not uncommon in ancient times , and they are also well known from Africa and India . |
| 47 | To infer that because Wolof children were not familiar with western school practices they were therefore unable to distinguish between their thought and its object unjustifiably inflates the significance of the western school and its practices . |
| 48 | Some at Community level , with others at national level , would be subject to scrutiny and investigation by EC institutions , to ensure that national policies were not contrary to European objectives . |
| 49 | The Court decided that although the hours thresholds did amount to indirect discrimination , they were not contrary to European Community law since they could be ‘ objectively justified ’ on policy grounds . |
| 50 | Nevertheless , they were not immune to public pressure nor to the machinations of some of their fellow councillors and critics , and the realisation that their policy was not as flexible 85 they had hoped , they started to liberalise it both in its written form and its application to particular cases . |
| 51 | Educational policies were not immune from this tendency in their concern with the proper constituents of a national education system , which while serving to weld the nation into a coherent unit , would not disturb fundamental economic relations . |
| 52 | Nordic composers around the turn of the century were not immune from quasi-medieval minstrelsy , or from routinely voluptuous piano arpeggios like Mendelssohn 's . |
| 53 | Ms Richardson said the company 's current strategy was one of heavy investment in its areas of ‘ core competence ’ while divesting itself of operations which were not essential to those core functions . |
| 54 | ‘ There were tae things that were not normal about that flight . |
| 55 | Such entreaties to passing travellers were not infrequent in lonely country at the time . |
| 56 | " Guerrists " among the PSOE " aparato " ( bureaucracy ) felt that officials using unorthodox but previously tolerated methods of fund-raising were not guilty of personal corruption . |
| 57 | In October 1875 , their medical officer drew the attention of the Board , after many previous attempts , to meet the need for a separate building , or wards , to receive alleged lunatics who were not susceptible of curative treatment ( sic ) in an asylum , but ‘ whose habits and conduct are such that they can not be associated with the other inmates without injury to the latter ’ . |
| 58 | Financial limitations and unwillingness to sell made new players increasingly hard to find , in an area where , as Chapman pointed out , industrial conditions were not conducive to home-grown talent , and where there was strong competition from rugby . |
| 59 | For example , Christine Horton ( 1989 ) told the conference she regretted that many aspects of policing had a symbolic role which were not conducive to quantitative measures and were difficult to present with absolute objectivity . |
| 60 | The wet and windy conditions prevailing were not conducive to good hockey , with the visitors adapting better and taking both points in a creditable 2–1 win . |