Example sentences of "and was [not/n't] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After this , that thoroughfare became wide and straight and was not built-up until the 1920's apart from the provision of a cemetery near the borough boundary . |
| 2 | The building was a fire-proof repository for the papers of various government departments , including the Home Office and the Foreign Office , and was not accessible to the public . |
| 3 | He had obviously not allowed his degree course to affect his view of what was and was not possible in the physical world . |
| 4 | Gilbey , who is involved with Formula One 's Team Lotus , said he was leading his own life and was not involved in the future plans of the princess . |
| 5 | Its adoption by the merchant service seems to have been fairly gradual ( and was not complete until the 1860 s ) because about this time hemp rope was improved by being laid up , or twisted , mechanically , and thus much more tightly , so that the creep was considerably reduced . |
| 6 | No classification is entirely satisfactory and was not consistent over the period represented here but the category included : engineers , railway employees , carpenters , building trades and labourers , tailors and dressmakers , boot and shoe operatives , printing trades , postmen , policemen , blacksmiths , farm labourers , textile factory workers , gardeners and caretakers . |
| 7 | When we consider the regulation that will be imposed and the rights of consumers in Northern Ireland , my hon. Friend will find that consumers will be much better protected and safeguarded under privatisation than if they had been left to continue with a publicly owned monopoly which too often had a life of its own and was not subject to the outside pressures that consumers have a right to bring to bear . |
| 8 | The second subsection , by contrast , places an evidential burden on the defendant ( or the ‘ accused , ’ as the Act somewhat anachronistically refers to him ) to assert that he did not intend , and was not aware of the impact that his conduct was having or might have . |
| 9 | I did not understand German , and was not interested in the photograph of myself at the top , but bottom left , was a small black-and-white snapshot of Joan and the children . |
| 10 | They 're gon na catch me ’ and he was just talking to the film crew and not the camera and was not conscious of the fact there was probably 14 million people watching it . |
| 11 | I thought that private investment could have been used more imaginatively in the period of the 1980–1 recession and was not satisfied with the Treasury 's replies . |
| 12 | She became addicted to alcohol and diet pills , had seven or eight husbands ( depending on which reference book you read ) , and was not averse to the odd bout of fisticuffs when she got off her head . |
| 13 | Doctors said the biopsy was carried out in a different part of the brain to where the rupture of the aneurysm occurred and was not responsible for the death . |