Example sentences of "were not in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They accepted that Mr Goodman would suffer financial hardship as a result , but said that they were not in a position to judge whether his dismissal had been justified , so that it could not be said that his difficulties had been caused by the company 's conduct . |
| 3 | Like most Romanians , who were not in a position to exercise any discretion in the matter , the couple had an almost slavish regard for the most commercialized features of capitalist culture . |
| 4 | If for example women were turned down more often than men because their employment history was shorter , they were not in a skilled job , and they did not have a bank account , this would not constitute discrimination against women — as the conditions , only part of an overall scoring system , would not be absolute . |
| 5 | While they had not asked for permission to enter his lands and claimed they were not in a position to pay for the disturbance , they promised he would be well looked after if the find was as good as appeared . |
| 6 | North London-based staff who were not in a category entitled to home relocation allowances , or who had an additional mileage of less than 15 miles were entitled to receive additional commuting costs . |
| 7 | They were not in a very good state of conservation , having been drastically overcleaned in previous restoration campaigns sponsored by the Carthusian monks . |
| 8 | The Community Mothers initiative was developed in the Eastern Health Board because Public Health Nurses were not in a position to expand the work due to the demands of their caseloads . |
| 9 | It is true that this word is mentioned in the Bible , but it was rightly applied then , for these unhappy creatures mentioned were not in a position to make themselves understood . |
| 10 | Since Picasso and Braque had not exhibited for some time , and since they had not taken part in the manifestations at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d'Automne , the public were not in a position to realize that their abstention deprived the Section d'Or of much of its meaning . |
| 11 | They were not in a position to remind them that " an Ammonite and a Moabite shall not enter the congregation of the Lord " ( Deut. 23.4 ) — if it is true that the Tobiads were Ammonites . |
| 12 | It is possible he may have observed something you were not in a position to see , ’ Rose explained diplomatically . |
| 13 | Where the sum insured is inadequate i.e. is lower than the actual value of the total property at risk and the lost or damaged items were not in a new condition . |
| 14 | Speaking after a visit to South Africa , Ellemann-Jensen concluded that the security forces were not in a position to supervise a democratic transition . |
| 15 | Dundee , a university whose publishing and citation counts were low , felt that their consultation records were not in a proper state for the derivation of meaningful statistics . |
| 16 | The Court of Appeal in Sybron were not in a position to criticise the House of Lords decision in Bell v Lever Bros Ltd [ 1931 ] AC 161 though they distinguished it . |
| 17 | Some critics of the operation have remarked that many of the evacuues , though wounded , were not in a critical condition . |
| 18 | Timeshare owners at Sutton Hall are affiliated to a holiday exchange scheme called RCI , whose marketing director Colin Colins confirmed that the couple were not in a position to exchange their unit as it had n't been built . |
| 19 | They were not in an easy position . |
| 20 | Best J. appeared to consider that the payment was involuntary inasmuch as the attorney , being in ignorance of the true situation , both parties were not in an equal position . |
| 21 | They had ordered halves of the local draught beer which they were n't in a hurry to finish . |
| 22 | They 'd had a skinful so were n't in a particularly noticing mood but they saw and heard nothing , nothing except what they described as a kind of mournful whistling coming from deep in the wood . ’ |
| 23 | What they were told was that erm a number of , a a short , short list would be made up , erm , with the possibility of them having a second interview , and they would be told one way or another whether or not they were getting a second interview , because we were n't in a position to say whether we were or were not appointing . |
| 24 | ‘ You and I are also required to put in an appearance at the police station later , but I managed to persuade them you were n't in a fit state to answer questions right now . ’ |
| 25 | However , a number of babies are born with Down 's whose mothers were n't in an obvious at-risk category . |
| 26 | Organiser Barry Clemo said after the event : ‘ Everyone really enjoyed themselves , but the pancakes were n't in an edible state afterwards . |