Example sentences of "[was/were] not [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defendants ' operations were not destructive of telegraphic communication generally , but only affected instruments unnecessarily so constructed as to be affected by minute currents of the escaping electricity . |
| 2 | Those payments were not available under previous Governments . |
| 3 | Obviously it was n't the money that made the difference : what was important was the fact that the wealth opened up all sorts of possibilities to the lucky children that simply were not available to adopted children of poorer parents . |
| 4 | Because these videos were not available for two subjects the recall data is reported for 28 subjects only . |
| 5 | Gross photographs of specimens were not examined , as they were not available for all cases . |
| 6 | The 1991 Census has also been produced as Local Base Statistics , which were not available in previous years . |
| 7 | This result should be interpreted cautiously because serial biopsies were not available in these tumours . |
| 8 | Originality was only to be found in the words of songs , but these words were not understandable to western audiences . |
| 9 | John Miles , a senior consultant neurosurgeon at Walton Hospital said : ‘ We now know that Mr Cleary had what is called an aneurysm , although most of the symptoms he displayed were not typical of this condition . |
| 10 | These demands , reportedly based on views expressed in local Basic People 's Congresses , were criticized by Kadhafi in his congressional address on March 6 , on the grounds that they were not representative of true public opinion . |
| 11 | Following the Education Act 1944 , the school curriculum in England and Wales was ( with the exception of religious instruction ) unregulated , and the teachers who taught were not subject to legal constraint over curriculum content . |
| 12 | In the GCHQ case the House of Lords held that there was no general rule that prerogative powers were not subject to judicial review on grounds of reasonableness and fairness : whether any particular exercise of a prerogative power was subject to such review depended on the nature of the power in question and the circumstances in which it was exercised . |
| 13 | These courts were not subject to judicial review at all which only applied to administrative authorities and inferior courts . |
| 14 | Use a seven point scale where 1 would indicate that the situation shown was extremely unusual and 7 would indicate that the events were not surprising in any way ’ . |
| 15 | In the favoured regions of the north the common lands gave social strength to the community and were not detrimental to good husbandry . |
| 16 | The endoscopic findings of ‘ erythema ’ , ‘ oedema ’ , ‘ friability ’ , ‘ hyperaemia ’ , ‘ dilated cardia ’ , ‘ endoscopic reflux ’ , which agree with Savary and Tytgat , were not considered as evidence of oesophagitis , because they are too subjective to be evaluated and were not reproducible from one observer to another . |
| 17 | Mr Heslop said that , in fact , Mr Venables and his company , Edennote , had put their names to documents specifically stating that no one had entered into service agreements which were not terminable within 12 months . |
| 18 | As even Calvinists were not opposed to all ornamentation , the new communion tables were not entirely without detail . |
| 19 | Feminists were not opposed to reforming intervention per se . |
| 20 | Of course , since they were not involved in these groups these needs failed to be expressed to the city council , although the two umbrella groups , NSCDC and NSLC , took some responsibility for this . |
| 21 | The police arrested all of the group before they reached home and they , the army authorities and NIO knew that the paramilitary organisations were not involved in any way . |
| 22 | In a subsequent phone conversation I was told that your response had been favourable , provided BWB were not involved in any expenses being incurred . |
| 23 | He added : ‘ There is no evidence of fighting between American and British sailors … and I am confident my men were not involved in any drunkenness , damage or trouble of any kind . ’ |
| 24 | He appeared to allay this concern during the present hearings by admitting to mistakes , specifically not following up on the vague information available to him that there might have been a covert operation and unquestioningly accepting the repeated reassurances of his superior , the then CIA director William J. Casey , that government officials were not involved in illicit activities . |
| 25 | Our men were not involved in this shooting at all . |
| 26 | First , amiloride ( 100μM ) was added ( apically ) to block electrogenic sodium absorption and to ensure subsequent current increases were not due to this activity . |
| 27 | The results of the simultaneous state and local elections in the neighbouring state of Hidalgo were not due for official release until Dec. 2 , but preliminary results indicated that the PRI had won 81 out of the 84 municipalities . |
| 28 | The students were not due for another month , though the streets and cloisters were crowded with tourists , who were outnumbered only by their cameras . |
| 29 | As we were not due for another lesson till the next day I was n't carrying them with me . |
| 30 | Those who had come by train had the same problem as the trains for the return journey were not due for several hours . |