Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some panel members believed that decisions taken by the Children 's Panel were not implemented by the Social Work Department , and therefore threatened the independence and integrity of the Panel . |
| 2 | It was held that as he had only paid to avoid seizure of his goods and never voluntarily nor intending to give up his rights to the sums paid nor to close the transactions , he was entitled to recover those payments which were not barred by the Statute of Limitation . |
| 3 | Tensions were not eased by the grudging spirit in which toleration had been granted . |
| 4 | The 1900 Olympics were not ratified by the IOC until 1912 ( ironically the year of the ill-fated Triangular Tournament , first-class cricket 's first attempt at an international tournament ) . |
| 5 | These were not understood by the workers and the management on the floor , and indeed should never have been put into operation . |
| 6 | Q. Is there any comeback in law is a horse reveals faults which were not declared by the previous owner at the time of the sale ? |
| 7 | When it became possible to study the German foreign office records after 1945 , says an American scholar , ‘ tests did not reveal essential documents … that were not printed by the editors of Die grosse Politia , [ but ] they did reveal that the editors , in making their selection , were influenced by a desire not to make the task of the rulers of the Weimar Republic more difficult , and not to injure the reputation of foreign statesmen who were still active after World War I and who were sympathetic to Germany ’ . |
| 8 | Calls for democracy along western lines with a multi-party system , free choice of candidates and free elections were not tolerated by the old party leaders , Who clung to centralised ‘ socialist democracy ’ . |
| 9 | But these deaths were not caused by an avenging spirit from beneath the sunset . |
| 10 | ‘ The bad effects of island driving on the long sentences were not caused by an increase in the number of false alarm seeds . |
| 11 | They were not caused by the coming of de Gaulle : that merely served to crystallise them . |
| 12 | The difficulties associated with the introduction of the community charge were not caused by the time taken for the Bill to pass through the House , but by the fact that a large number of regulations relating to the charge were passed close to its introduction . |
| 13 | Overt statements of support for SAIRI and the rebellion were not tempered by a March 5-6 visit to Tehran by the then Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Sa'adoun Hammadi . |
| 14 | Recently my female Oscar laid eggs , but they were not fertilised by the male . |
| 15 | Moreover , some studies suggested that the crucial floating voters were not characterised by a high degree of interest , involvement , and knowledge , but by ignorance and indifference , and they were less involved in following the election campaign than were those who were keenly attached to a party . |
| 16 | The levels of IgA-ANCAs were not explained by the occurrence of agglutinating rheumatoid factors ( not illustrated ) . |
| 17 | And these feelings were not recognised by the students as the straightforward product of four large vodkas . |
| 18 | Flights were not disrupted by the bad visibility . |
| 19 | They were not met by the UK , which also granted itself invalid derogations , and the country ended up in the European Court ( see below ) . |
| 20 | Administrative problems played their part in this story since the centres were not run by the same authorities as those managing the state hospitals . |
| 21 | Under the butty system , miners ' wages were not determined by the colliery company but by the individual butties : an individual 's earnings depended on his butty 's contract with the company , on the productivity of his gang , and on the wage rate offered by the butty . |
| 22 | There would be an infinite number of finite remainders that were not determined by the theory . |
| 23 | Dr. John Whitcomb , professor of Theology and Old Testament at Grace Theological Seminary in Winona Lake , Indiana , summed it up very well when on page 52 of his book ‘ The Early Earth ’ , he wrote , ‘ the testimony of an honest evolutionist could be expressed in terms of Hebrews 11:3 as follows , ‘ By faith , I , an evolutionist , understand that the worlds were not framed by the word of any god , so that what is seen has indeed been made out of previously existing and less complex visible things , by purely natural processes through billions of years ’ . ’ |
| 24 | The DTI could have responded by saying that the absence of the monitoring return was a serious matter , that it would allow a short extension , but that ‘ consideration would need to be given to revoking the licence if a satisfactory and duly verified monitoring return were not received by the specified date . ’ |
| 25 | But their importance was overlaid by the less formal and increasingly numerous letters of the type found in the state papers , the Privy Council 's register , and private collections : letters that conveyed information , advice , admonition , and informal orders ; documents that were not bound by the rigid formularies of legal requirement . |
| 26 | Madam , if my colleague were not bound by the traditions of the Civil Service — not to mention the obsolescent demands of gentlemanliness and his own natural diffidence — he would walk straight out of that door and never come back . |
| 27 | First of all you should eliminate all those who do not have the essential qualifications for the job you listed while you were still being objective and were not influenced by the different personalities of the candidate . |
| 28 | ( Four of the homelands — Ciskei , Bophuthatswana , Transkei and Venda — were nominally independent of South Africa , but were not recognized by the international community ; the remaining six were " self-governing " ; all remained heavily dependent on subsidies from South Africa . |
| 29 | The advocates of education for special needs were not reassured by the terms of reference of the task group established by the Secretary of State . |
| 30 | They were not swayed by the Coal Board 's insistence that they could do what they wanted any more than by the unions ' claims about the threatened mines . |