Example sentences of "[noun sg] was not in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Camillo was not in the attic . |
| 2 | It was held that his sale of his old car was not in the course of his business . |
| 3 | Indeed , the old common law was not in the least interested in how the police got their evidence ; all that mattered was its probative value . |
| 4 | Dixon had been in the business long enough to convey by a subtle nuance of tone that the Chief Constable was not in an amiable mood . |
| 5 | It was a terrifying thought , but it had behind it a lot of erm I think of force , and the point is that the primary school teacher who was getting the child to crouch before the Roman gladiator was not in the business of training professional historians , was much more interested in getting the child involved in an educational way , yet ironically was coming closer to perhaps what we 're trying to do at university now , than the teacher who was going through a list of the textile industries and so on . |
| 6 | The boy was not in the least off-put . |
| 7 | It quoted a hospital official at the Jackson Memorial Hospital as saying that the former first lady was not in a life-threatening condition . |
| 8 | She wished , not for the first time , that the telephone was not in the hall , always the coldest place in the house . |
| 9 | He said the activities had ‘ gone too far ’ and such behaviour was not in the interest of ‘ stability , unity and the four modemisations ’ . |
| 10 | The Court of Appeal said the strike was not in the public interest . |
| 11 | Elijah was unperturbed by this : ‘ ’ the Lord was not in the wind . |
| 12 | '' A day or two later an earthquake shook the whole area and the same thing happened : ‘ ’ the Lord was not in the earthquake . ’ |
| 13 | His verdict was , ‘ ’ the Lord was not in the fire ! ’ |
| 14 | She had seen the film , too , and I received a letter some time later from her husband , Mr Hallows , telling me that Odette was not in the best of health and they were moving house . |
| 15 | England played Sri Lanka and the game was not in the schedule of the host broadcaster , Channel 9 . |
| 16 | Madame behind the counter was not in the least fazed when he said he wanted to call England . |
| 17 | As Stephen Wood points out in his Introduction to his edited book discussing the de-skilling thesis ( Wood 1982 , 15 ) , Braverman appears to assume ‘ that prior to Taylorism control was not in the hands of management , but was rather a kind of management by neglect ( the laissez-faire method , as Taylor called it ) , in which workers knew more than managers ’ . |
| 18 | I am sorry that the Secretary of State was not in the Chamber when the hon. Gentleman ended by saying that his last ambition in politics was to abolish the Department in which he served for eight years . |
| 19 | The Deaconess was not in the least surprised that the Archdeacon knew of Mrs Yaxlee 's accident . |
| 20 | Hence , even if the correct word was not in the lattice , it is very possible that an incorrect word belonging to the same syntactic category may have been present instead . |
| 21 | Ruth saw at once that her grandfather was not in the room , but she took it for granted that by some miracle he had improved enough to get upstairs and was resting in bed . |
| 22 | But the young doctor was not in the least disconcerted . |
| 23 | In any case , the concern about Article 86 legislation could be met relatively easily by retaining monopoly references to the MMC , with the OFT proposing behavioural or structural remedies where a market situation was not in the public interest , but there was no evidence of abuse by the firms involved . |
| 24 | This case was decided under the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 , the defendant being acquitted of applying a false trade description because the sale was not in the course of a trade or business due to the absence of regularity . |
| 25 | Although friendly , the hostel was not in the same class as its neighbour at Boggle Hole . |
| 26 | Marglin ( 1975 ) 'argues that the development of the factory system was not in the interest of workers who , being left with no alternative but the freedom to starve , were forced to comply . |
| 27 | They thought the entrance to the car park on the sheet was not in the best place , so they changed it . |
| 28 | This election concept was introduced because the founding fathers felt the public was not in a position to make up its own mind . |
| 29 | Couple of points that were made in relation to this particular report was the backing by the employee side , erm , to the wages board initiative that took when we wrote to the government saying that we felt that the abolition of the wages board was not in the best interests erm , of the people of Lincolnshire . |
| 30 | Léonie was not in the orchard . |