Example sentences of "they were [not/n't] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Their rates of pay were normally 3/ to 3/6 a day when they were not on piece work . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But , worse still , they were not on Grace . |
| 5 | The impressive expertise used by the state in reassuring the population was easily undermined : ‘ the long distance perceived between the Dublin-based experts of the NEB who assured the population that they were not at risk and the respected local doctors who spoke out about health hazards of uranium , called the legitimacy of the established authority into question ’ . |
| 6 | The CDU proposed the addition of a clause to the Basic Law ( constitution ) which would allow the authorities to reject applicants for political asylum entering Germany from a third country in which they were not at risk of political persecution . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The declaration said that until such time as Krajina 's separation from Croatia could be negotiated with the Croatian government , Croatian laws would continue to be observed in the region , provided that they were not at variance with federal laws or laws unilaterally adopted by the Krajina government . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He knows the authority that he 's had in that community , he has seen supernatural things happening in his life and through him , albeit , they were not of God , but has been involved in supernatural things . |
| 11 | The skipper of one Shetland boat , Magnie Stewart , said the tankers would put up two red lights to give warning that they were not under command . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There must have been a proportion of shy , bashful ones around , but they were not in evidence amongst the mob which harassed us day by day as we tried to make our way around the town on our own affairs . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But they were not in conflict . |
| 16 | Latvia also declared a transitional period for negotiations on independence , as Estonia had done on March 30 [ see p. 37322 and below ] , but without rejecting the validity of the Soviet Constitution and laws , provided that they were not in conflict with Latvia 's laws and sovereign rights . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | All I know is that the Labour Government , who were in favour of the European Community , did not need any convincing that they were not in favour of a federalist united states of Europe . |
| 19 | Yesterday , the EC observers in the conflict areas of Yugoslavia made it clear that they were not in favour of rapid diplomatic recognition of Croatia , which they say would wreck the prospects for negotiating a settlement of the war and increase the chance of hostilities spreading to other parts of the collapsed federation . |
| 20 | As far as the death grant goes , erm for a pensioner that would only be payable erm if somebody actually died within year of leaving pensionable service , due to ill health , and they were not in receipt of an infirmity pension . |
| 21 | But the little boy 's request was unusually apt , for , unknown to them all , they were not in Edendale , Southland , New Zealand , but the Garden of Eden by Gore . |
| 22 | ‘ They were not in control of energy policy . |
| 23 | They were not in control of all the factors . |
| 24 | But they were not in Great Britain in 1984 , and adjacent areas with similar relatively isolated mining communities ( notably Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire ) differed very substantially not only in their support for the strike call but also in their level of industrial militancy over a substantial period of time . |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | They were not in fact the same thing — they were two separate things — and up until this point , it seemed like it was all one thing — that MainMan and David were the same — but it began to become apparent that they were n't . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Although such women may be registered as unoccupied , they were not in fact lone mothers . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Important changes in the doctrine of precedent were also made in midgame : judges were persuaded or persuaded themselves that they were not in fact bound by court decisions their predecessors had taken as binding . |