Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1977 Porchester report published figures provided by MAFF to indicate the potential loss of agricultural production if 16,000 hectares of Exmoor stayed as rough sheep grazing and were not converted to grassland . |
| 2 | Although , strictly speaking , the bearers were not assigned to individuals and worked as a pool , carrying messages for anybody in the building , in practice they identified themselves with particular people . |
| 3 | The following year , 1926 the Ministry of Health issued draft proposals for reform of the Poor Law but copies were not sent to Boards of Guardians , and it was decided that a letter of protest about the omission should be sent . |
| 4 | The daily temperatures were not related to exposure of the vaccines to temperatures >10°C . |
| 5 | Hyperkalaemia ( χ 2 =0.18 , df=1 , p<0.75 ) , degree of acidosis ( χ 2 =2.05 , df=1 , p<0.25 ) , and the presence of anaemia ( haemoglobin concentration <110 g/l ; χ 2 =0.79 , df=1 , p<0.5 ) were not related to survival . |
| 6 | However , positive school experiences were not related to outcome among the comparison sample . |
| 7 | Conversely , OPCS recorded that 68 admissions were not related to alcohol and review of notes showed that only 38 ( 35% ) admissions fell into this category . |
| 8 | Some rhythmic sequences were initiated by swallows , but others were not related to deglutition . |
| 9 | Table III shows that standardised mortality ratios for cardiovascular disease were not related to duration of gestation , though the highest ratio , 107 , was in men born at 37 weeks or less . |
| 10 | At first sight they seemed distinct : voting patterns were not related to policy issues ; people spoke of their voting intentions in terms of fraternal solidarities , while they conducted a subtle and nuanced assessment of the effects of government on their own lives and on national prestige . |
| 11 | Thirteenth-century reformers expended much energy and ingenuity trying to ensure that parishes were properly served and that the souls of parishioners were not exposed to perdition by the negligence and greed of pluralist incumbents . |
| 12 | Although members of the community dressed alike , the women in black robes , they were not bound to celibacy . |
| 13 | The absurdity of the universities ' power to dictate the curriculum to schools catering for children , 90 per cent of whom were not proceeding to university , was manifest . |
| 14 | It was interesting , moreover , to see that Conductive Education groups at the Institute were not limited to children with severe motor problems . |
| 15 | However , such tax credits were not granted to agencies or branches of insurance companies which were not registered in France . |
| 16 | Elevenses were not given to clerks then . |
| 17 | The end of the cylinder box had to suffice ( 27 ) , and paper labels were not attached to discs until 1901 ( 28 , left ) . |
| 18 | because the clinics were not attached to university medical schools , it was improbable that good physicians would be attracted to the specialty ; |
| 19 | While the French police eventually traced the pieces to Osaka , lack of cooperation on the part of the Japanese authorities meant that they were not returned to France until June 1990 , and then only on the condition that they were returned to Japan by December of that year . |
| 20 | Checking their activities to see that they were confining themselves to local products , and were not turning to smuggling was very difficult until improvements in transport and in the structure of government meant that the vast majority of imports paid duty . |
| 21 | His family arranged his cremation , but his ashes were not taken to Paris until 30 November 1950 , the fiftieth anniversary of Wilde 's death . |
| 22 | They were treated by ambulancemen after suffering the effects of smoke but were not taken to hospital . |
| 23 | Were not biking to Orpington were biking to Bromley . |
| 24 | Most German people were not attracted to Nazism because of its anti-semitism . |
| 25 | He had , and was going to have , the worst hangover of his life , but even in the throes of it he was aware of a sense of relief that they were staying there , they were not going to Greece . |
| 26 | The scene was set for confrontation and as these confrontations continued without an end in sight , it became clear that the usual tactics of the unions were not going to work . |
| 27 | The three boys set out , but they walked so slowly that Oliver thought they were not going to work at all . |
| 28 | They knew now that it was on these and on nothing else that their lives depended , and they were not going to waste anything they possessed between them . |
| 29 | Pressures for some " democratisation " of foreign policy and for weakening the dangerous grip on international relations of allegedly cynical and reactionary foreign offices were not confined to Britain . |
| 30 | Such diversification activities were not confined to Harwell . |