Example sentences of "this [was/were] not [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Federal Constitutional Court ruled on April 23 that landowners and industrialists whose property was expropriated during the Soviet occupation of eastern Germany in 1945-49 did not have a right to its return , and that this was not counter to clauses in the federal Constitution on the right to property and equal treatment before the law . |
| 2 | Blessed are you , Simon son of Jonah , for this was not revealed to you by man but by my Father in heaven . |
| 3 | This was not related to the duration of diarrhoea ( χ 2 test , p>0.05 ) . |
| 4 | This was not related to any change in adhesive properties . |
| 5 | This was not meant to be any kind of supranational authority , but under the aegis of cooperation some conformity of legislation was achieved as well as some joint initiatives , one of the first being the establishment of Scandinavian Air Lines ( SAS ) in August 1946 . |
| 6 | This was not confined to security information but encompassed any information which was not in the interests of the state to disclose . |
| 7 | Some hostility or distress on the part of the dementia sufferers to some of the memory testing or depression questions , and to the performance tests , had been anticipated ; but on the whole this was not found to be the case . |
| 8 | This was not found to be the case , although the number of people in each profession was far too small for this finding to carry much weight . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , it would seem that this was not considered to be a significant proportion . |
| 10 | In North Yorkshire , Orkney and Wester Ross ( predominantly part-time ) this was not thought to be so important . |
| 11 | This was not thought to be hyperfluorescence of the discs by our ophthalmological colleagues . |
| 12 | This was not going to be at all easy . |
| 13 | This was not going to be another dull Sunday afternoon . |
| 14 | Twice they were denied penalties for handball , one in each half , and when Colin Johnson hit the upright 16 minutes from time , it looked more and more obvious that this was not going to be their day . |
| 15 | America realised this was not going to be an easy war to conclude . |