Example sentences of "[coord] were [adv] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were an heir under 18 years of age to accede , or the monarch to become mentally or physically incapacitated from acting , or were otherwise not available ‘ for some definite cause ’ , it would fall to a panel of high officers of state to declare a regency , in which event the person next in line would assume power until a further declaration signified the end of the regency . |
| 2 | Certain authorities , originally identified by Sir Geoffrey Howe as potential recipients of enterprise zones in the 1980 Budget speech — notably Sheffield and Wolverhampton — were unable to reach agreement with the Treasury over this issue , and were thus not granted zones . |
| 3 | On the French side although the Communists failed to form a government and were thus not in a position to change French policy towards Vietnam — whether they would have wanted to do so is not quite so clear — the impasse between them and the MRP had resulted in a caretaker government under the veteran Socialist party leader , Leon Blum ; and Blum , calling for an end to equivocation and an absolutely clear definition of policy , had urged not only confidence and friendship but ‘ sincere agreement ’ on the basis of Vietnamese independence . |
| 4 | This seems to suggest that for films with many moving objects or with high levels of subjective risk subjects ignored the fixed information in the recognition phase and were thus not biased by it . |
| 5 | In its reserved judgement given on 12th March 1992 , the Court concluded that the Visitors acted in their capacity as Judges of the High Court and not as visitors in the usual sense and were thus not reviewable . |
| 6 | The ancient Greeks certainly aged their trees by counting rings and were probably not the first to do so . |
| 7 | Some teachers felt that the advisers were out of touch with the problems they were having in this respect and saw more oral work as an unrealistic expectation — that pupils did not consider oral as work and were often not prepared to listen , thus to try to do it would only be creating problems . |
| 8 | Liturgies raising social and development issues , such as Christian Aid liturgies , were often used on less formal occasions , and were often not central to churches ' worshipping pattern . |
| 9 | Mannaia seem to have taken care to propose people who were indeed from the active lineages but who lived in Tazarbu , and were therefore not personally involved in the conflict with Awlad Amira : while insisting on the principle of unrelenting solidarity , they tacitly mitigated the provocation by proposing candidates who had themselves not been active in the dispute . |
| 10 | The first generation of Compton FELs ( 1975–85 ) was built around available electron accelerators , most of which had been designed for nuclear physics and were therefore not optimised as FEL injectors . |
| 11 | The planning department found that business units considered the time horizon of the issues to be too long to be of relevance and these issues were therefore considered to be ‘ back of the mind ’ flagging signals and were therefore not acted on . |
| 12 | The true response rate is likely to be higher , however , because around 4% of the civil servants on the lists provided by the civil service had moved before the study and were therefore not eligible for inclusion . |
| 13 | Finally , the judge held that the defendants , although not guilty of bad faith , had acted in breach of their fiduciary duties and were therefore not entitled to be paid their commission . |
| 14 | Also , ministers are often prepared to get answers on detailed questions for MPs , though the Commons decided that such letters were not ‘ proceedings in Parliament ’ and were therefore not protected from actions alleging libel . |
| 15 | Darwin 's conclusion then , in direct contrast to that of his even more orthodox Captain , was that the Galapagos finches could only be varieties , and were therefore not worth collecting carefully . |
| 16 | Over the same period seven other cases of colonic cancer were found in association with ulcerative colitis , two in patients who had erroneously been diagnosed as having only proctitis and were therefore not entered into the programme , but were found at operation to have total colitis , one in a patient with colitis of seven years duration , and four patients who had previously attended the clinic but had been lost to follow up before 1978 and then had re-presented with new symptoms during the surveillance period . |
| 17 | 1960 ; Giles and Powesland 1975 ) with the difference that the extracts on tape were from genuine conversational data and were therefore not standardised . |
| 18 | Married women who had not been receiving support from their husband when they were first interviewed , and were therefore not expecting support from him during subsequent crises , had a much reduced risk of depression if they received help from someone else whom they had named as very close at the first interview . |
| 19 | For those theses which were read , and were subsequently not cited , Kochen 's fourth alternative contains some of the possible reasons for non-citation , but there may be others , and it is not possible to choose between them from the evidence currently available . |
| 20 | She was consoled , too , to have them in her house where they made an uncommon amount of noise and were certainly not easy guests but their beaming countenances and determination to look on the bright side of everything lightened the atmosphere immensely . |
| 21 | They were not expected to advance till July , and were certainly not expected in this part of Belgium , so Sharpe suspected that the musketry had been caused by Prussian troops at firing practice , yet a long acquaintance with war 's surprises had spurred Sharpe to investigate the sound . |
| 22 | The other family were made aware of the need for the venous sample some 24 hours before it was taken and were then not given the normal result for a further 24 hours . |
| 23 | The Russians undertook to protect their new vassals , but were often not disposed to or were too poorly endowed with manpower to help when asked to do so . |
| 24 | It was highly embarrassing , a sort of indelicacy , to stand on the platform surrounded by a crowd of males who had to be polite but were obviously not in the mood for feminine society . |
| 25 | By the twentieth century they were mainly in Tyrone , Armagh and Sligo but were still not classifiable as a breed : they were simply polled Irish cattle . |
| 26 | He was tough and strong , disciplined and unselfish — he was the epitome of the goal-maker , whose efforts were recognised by his colleagues and opponents and by the discerning fan , but were perhaps not so well appreciated by less perceptive onlookers or pressmen . |