Example sentences of "[was/were] not in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Geoffrey Fisher went from Repton to be Bishop of Chester and invited him to be an examining chaplain ; which he accepted — it would mean two or three visits a year — and was surprised to find how friendly Fisher was when they were not in the relation of boy and headmaster . |
| 2 | He recognized that many of the weapons were not in the power of the parish system — broadcasting , or literature , or education , or public life . |
| 3 | Two Government reports had concluded they were not in the public interest . |
| 4 | Those who were not in the hand of God were the playthings of blind hazard . |
| 5 | The buildings were not in the best of condition . |
| 6 | His dealer , Zborowski , found to his chagrin that the rich pleasure-seekers in the south of France were not in the least interested in buying modern paintings . |
| 7 | Perhaps it is seeking to increase the audience , or perhaps it was lead astray for a while by the fact that , during the Conservative leadership contest , the exciting politics at Westminster were not in the Chamber . |
| 8 | Second best were the grammar schools , deemed to be a kind of honorary public schools ; secondary modern schools were not in the running . |
| 9 | Improve your mood and counteract stress : Ask anyone who exercises regularly and they will tell you that they always feel exhilarated at the end of a session — even if they had begun by feeling that they were not in the mood for exercise and had almost forced themselves to continue . |
| 10 | Later in the day I learnt from the Canadian that we were not in the main part of the camp at all , but in the cells or ‘ cooler , awaiting interrogation . |
| 11 | Firewatching was compulsory for everyone between 16 and 18 years and for those over 50 who were not in the HG , or ARP . |
| 12 | The law demanded that they attend school for the few hours they were not in the theatre , but time spent on education was minimal as the pantomime was so popular that there were matinées most days . |
| 13 | Wonderful Town ( ) is not precisely an ‘ original cast ’ recording ; it 's a recording of the television version made in 1958 , five years after the show was first staged , but only Jacquelyn McKeever ( excellent as Eileen ) and lead man Sydney Chaplin were not in the stage version . |
| 14 | In discussion it was suggested that one could consider the clash of values at the local level in terms of game theory , where ‘ traditionalists ’ were playing the game and were winning whereas ‘ progressivists ’ were not in the game but wanted to change the rules so that they could compete . |
| 15 | The greatest single restriction on my practice was not being able to request X-rays when senior medical staff were not in the department , This rendered me ineffective at times when I could be best used , namely evenings and weekends . |
| 16 | But the problems were not in the backs . |
| 17 | ( b ) failed to mention that the said accounts were not in the form required by section 228 and paragraph 1 ( 1 ) of Schedule 4 of the Companies Act 1985 and |
| 18 | ( b ) failed to mention that the said accounts were not in the form required by section 228 and paragraph 1 ( 1 ) of Schedule 4 of the Companies Act 1985 and |
| 19 | ( b ) failed to mention that the said accounts were not in the form required by section 228 and paragraph 1 ( 1 ) of Schedule 4 of the Companies Act 1985 and |
| 20 | On the day when I was wilting with heat my feet were not in the least sweaty , but I would have liked more support — I thought it barely adequate except for lowland walking . |
| 21 | Their foot were not in the main Highlandmen — although they had some of these , from upland Perthshire and the Glens of Angus — and so could not travel so fast and far each day . |
| 22 | This did not prove that you could n't use whatever it was , simply that you were not in the mood to knit successfully ! |
| 23 | In both cases their parents took decisions for them which , in my view , were not in the boys ' best interests . |
| 24 | ‘ They were not in the safe ? ’ |
| 25 | She and James were not in the habit of phoning each other regularly . |
| 26 | By contrast , if the forged words were not in the documents , he could with pardonable exaggeration use the words ultimum quasi robur . |
| 27 | The epistemological importance of such an exercise is evident , as is the fact that care would have to be taken to avoid circularity , to ensure that we did not make the credibility of a claim to knowledge depend upon beliefs that were not in the foundation . |
| 28 | Conversely , in the high-risk group , which included all subjects who were not in the low-risk group already defined ( Table 3 ) , the ACE/ID polymorphism was not related to myocardial infarction . |
| 29 | The Navigation Acts were not in the first instance devised to make up for the fact that some English revenue was devoted to colonial defence , but defending the colonies came to be seen as an integral part of the Old Colonial System . |
| 30 | Unlike the great families of the Norman and Poitevin marches , the nobles of Aquitaine were not in the habit of appealing to the king of France 's court , as the Lusignans had done in 1202 , against the actions and decisions of their Plantagenet overlord . |