Example sentences of "[subord] they [was/were] not [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of these , the 30,000 who were still capable of resistance at the time of the ceasefire were to be allowed to return to Baghdad through the encircling allied forces although they were not to be permitted to take their remaining 700 or so tanks . |
| 2 | The Armstrongs were a lawless lot , paying little more allegiance to Scotland than they did to England , for they straddled the borderline ; so they were not to be trusted , but Johnstone and Jardine assured the Regent that on this occasion they would not cause trouble , for although they would care nothing about Balliol one way or the other , they hated Dacre , who as English Middle March Warden had recently hanged some of their people . |
| 3 | In defence of Dixon 's there are DTP packages that will run on an Amstrad 5086 — Timeworks 3 for GEM for example so they were not in fact wrong . |
| 4 | However , it also meant that the sort of movements which normally flow through Clough had to be accurate to the point of perfection if they were not to be enmeshed in blue shirts . |
| 5 | Simple , you say , yet how many people force down meals on a diet that they would not dream of choosing if they were not on that diet ? |
| 6 | He may have agreed that if the goods were in existence he would acquire the ownership of them and if they were not in existence he would get nothing but that in either event he would pay the price . |
| 7 | Kunstavisen reports in its March/April number that not only did many artists protest because they were not on the list but one contacted them to say that he had lost the possibility of a big exhibition because he had not been included . |
| 8 | In Jackson v. Rotax Motor and Cycle Co. ( 1910 C.A. ) the buyer accepted as satisfactory the first delivery of motor horns but claimed to reject the later deliveries because they were not of merchantable quality . |
| 9 | Those who supported the document accepted that economic reform could not be realized without an integrated market , but they also urged the strengthening of the state role in fiscal , monetary , tax and foreign relations policy ; while they were not against private ownership they favoured state ownership in industries which were of " economic interest " . |
| 10 | Fortunately , two of these ladies , Mme de Carette and the Countess des Garets , have left their memoirs , which are invaluable contributions to the understanding not only of how the Court functioned but also how the Imperial couple lived on a daily basis when they were not on show . |
| 11 | In this regard it might be added that the permanent garrison included many soldiers who practised trades in the community when they were not on duty , and the smith and storeman were presumably in this category . |
| 12 | He would thus have been guilty of perjury if he had submitted them when they were not to the best of his knowledge correct and complete . |
| 13 | When they were not in chapel , at the dinner table or in their beds , there was nothing at all to do in the house except join the endless gossiping sessions with which João 's sisters and cousins filled their idle hours . |
| 14 | The Front , including the former sole legal party , the Congolese Labour Party ( PCT ) , alleged that 500,000 people had been given voting cards even though they were not on any electoral roll . |
| 15 | Waterlife Research Industries have kindly replaced the test kit , even though they were not at fault and I would like to thank them for this . |
| 16 | From all of this Edward gained immediate advantages , though they were not of long-term benefit to the English monarchy ; they were decidedly disadvantageous to the papacy . |
| 17 | 29996 preserves many more of his compositions , together with an alternatim organ Mass by another St. Paul 's musician Philip ap Rhys , who succeeded him as organist , and a considerable number of organ works ( including the Proper of a Mass for Easter Day and eight ‘ Felix namque ’ which might be regarded as a set of variations though they were not of course played as such ) by Thomas Preston ( d. c. 1564 ) , organist of Magdalen College , Oxford , and later of the Chapel Royal at Windsor . |
| 18 | By about 1000 BC much smaller cattle began to appear and they came to be called the Celtic oxen , their different skull shape giving rise to the term Bos brachyceros or Bos longifrons , though they were not in fact of a separate species but members of the Bos taurus species like other longhorns and shorthorns in temperate regions . |
| 19 | Will the Leader of the House consider allocating time to look at planning requirements as they affect former nationalised industries such as the regional electricity boards , which continue to behave as though they were not in business for profit ? |
| 20 | Dagbladet yesterday brought a table from the spanish first division ( =premier ) with albacete listed even though they were not in the top five : ie they listed the top-five teams some ‘ … ’ and albacete : im quite sure that mean something though nothing more in the papers today . |
| 21 | It was infinitely more unnerving than that though , for they were not in a sealed room but out in the open , with the air rent with cries from the crowd : screams of naked terror and prayers for deliverance . |
| 22 | At one stage two large windows were let into the wall each side of the rose window to give more light , but these were removed when the cathedral was restored in the early part of this century as they were not in keeping with the original design . |