Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [coord] [was/were] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | But half the sugar in the drink came from the milk and was not thought to cause tooth decay . |
| 2 | They seemed to have a different attitude to the lecturers and were not afraid to go to them for elucidation of points they did not fully understand , and in tutorials showed their wider knowledge , and their readiness to think for themselves rather than just reproduce what they had learned from textbooks and lectures . |
| 3 | Any family could join in provided they had the money and were not Jewish — racism thrived tolerably well in meritocratic suburbia where Jews sometimes had to form their own clubs . |
| 4 | He knew Sir Ralph 's type : a professional soldier , a mercenary who would crusade for the faith but was not averse to serving in the armies of the infidel . |
| 5 | Sir Denys , a 58-year-old Scot and a lawyer by training , took over from Sir John Harvey-Jones in 1987 ( who is now chairman of The Economist but was not consulted for this article ) . |
| 6 | It should be stressed that in the Goff v Gauthier case , the misrepresentation was of fundamental importance in inducing the defendant to enter the contract and was not a minor misrepresentation which it was suggested that clause 10 would have excluded . |
| 7 | TEDO was a successor in title according to the F.C.C. and was not a British national at the relevant dates , therefore the plaintiff failed . |
| 8 | In Jim Smith 's presentation on Wednesday morning — AR Division Present and Future — he said that diversification of distribution meant that Scottish Amicable had changed with the times and was not risking all in relying on one source of business . |
| 9 | He went inside the building and was not too surprised when the bell rang as he was making coffee . |
| 10 | Olszewski was cited as saying that the new coalition did not want to overthrow the authorities and was not oriented towards a putsch . |
| 11 | Olszewski was cited as saying that the new coalition did not want to overthrow the authorities and was not oriented towards a putsch . |
| 12 | that , that spoilt the course or were not relevant and they 'd forgotten about the relevant bits . |
| 13 | It was particularly galling for the greens to see themselves overtaken by the extreme right National Front , which was being credited last night with 12.5 per cent of the vote but was not expected to win more than a couple of seats . |
| 14 | She said the company did not own the land at the rear of the shops and was not therefore responsible for maintaining it , but added : ‘ As a gesture of goodwill , we will organise to have the rubbish cleared . ’ |
| 15 | He travelled to the Continent but was not attracted to stay and study there . |
| 16 | That had always been the plan and was not some presbyterian purge on behalf of the coaches Douglas Morgan and John Jeffrey in retribution for Scotland 's showing in the tournament , where , for the second successive week , they failed to qualify from their pool for the main competition and suffered a heavy defeat in the plate . |
| 17 | Nicky Henderson 's gelding , an impressive Cheltenham winner last March , looked in need of the run and was not disgraced behind Mighty Mogul at Newbury in the soft on his reappearance . |
| 18 | A spokeswoman said Courtney had suffered ‘ generalised bruising ’ in the crash but was not thought to be in any danger . |
| 19 | I am indebted to husband John for pushing me into the purchase at a time I obviously needed the machine but was not very full of vim and zip to get it and learn it . |
| 20 | The Court of Appeal said that the attempt to keep the group afloat by recourse to both companies ' assets was a reasonable commercial judgment in the circumstances and was not unfairly prejudicial . |
| 21 | He was satisfied the reasons which the mother advanced against adoption were not ones a reasonable mother would advance in the circumstances and were not reasonable reasons and that a reasonable woman in her position would give her consent . |
| 22 | In the favoured regions of the north the common lands gave social strength to the community and were not detrimental to good husbandry . |
| 23 | By an amended respondent 's notice the natural mother supported the local authority 's appeal on the grounds advanced by their notice of appeal and further or alternatively sought to contend that the judge ( 1 ) had been wrong in law , fact or both to hear and determine the applications for leave when the mother was not a party to the applications and was not aware of them and the judge had not been apprised properly or at all of her wishes in the matter ; ( 2 ) had acted contrary to the rules of natural justice and to section 10(9) ( d ) ( ii ) of the Act of 1989 ; and ( 3 ) ought to have required the mother to be notified of the application pursuant to rule 4.3(2) ( b ) of the Family Proceedings Rules 1991 , rule 4.4 and Appendix III . |
| 24 | He had seemed to sniff at the opened envelope as though it carried some scent , but the letter inside only peeped from the teat and was not taken out . |
| 25 | Farmers had purchased land at quite unrealistic prices at the time of the reform and were not burdened with long-term borrowing . |
| 26 | To minimise potential bias , the study investigators set up the ventilators but were not involved in the clinical management of patients . |
| 27 | And yet , they could never become as truly professional as their colleagues in other disciplines , since ‘ literature ’ did not belong in the academy and was not generated there , though criticism and scholarship might be . |
| 28 | The perfusate passed in a single cycle through the organ and was not recirculated . |
| 29 | If the key elements of ‘ owlness ’ were absent , or only a few were present , the birds showed some curiosity about the dummy but were not stimulated to perform the full mobbing response . |
| 30 | He had spent most of his working life on the paper and was not far short of retirement so the move was astonishing . |