Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] not on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mind was n't on the game at all : it was on balance sheets and interest rates and VAT and cash flow and overdraft facilities . |
| 2 | Her mind was not on the film , however , and she left after an hour . |
| 3 | ‘ So my first erotic drawing was not on the back of an envelope ’ he wrote , ‘ but a week or so 's work on a decent piece of stone … |
| 4 | But despite Mr Koo 's slip , the Taiwanese side was at pains to stress that the big issues of its international status and political relationship with the mainland were not on the agenda . |
| 5 | It was to be an ugly demonstration ; damage limitation was not on the agenda . |
| 6 | Pre-election allegations that large numbers of citizens had been excluded from the electoral roll led to an agreement allowing citizens to vote with an identity card if their name were not on the register . |
| 7 | Mr Blair said the leadership was not on the agenda , adding : ‘ Mr Kinnock had a brilliant campaign . ’ |
| 8 | The ref said the first time the ball was n't on the spot properly so the kick had to be retaken . |
| 9 | When it was taken up with the Headmaster he said that the boy 's name was not on the roll , they did not know of him . |
| 10 | His name was not on the passenger list . |
| 11 | Future excuses could be ‘ our name was n't on the cup ’ ‘ we had possession but we could n't convert ’ or ‘ the ball would n't go in the net ’ . |
| 12 | Well that fail sign was n't on the caravan when we was doing that axle underneath . |
| 13 | I said well when I was here last that sign was n't on the thing then ! |
| 14 | ‘ If Pinder was right , and the statuette was not on the table when he crept past at twelve-thirty , that could well be the time of the murder , or very shortly afterwards . |
| 15 | Apart from Perdita , the Rutshire team for the Jack Gannon Cup consisted of Justin and Patrick Lombard , farmer 's sons who 'd spent their lives in the saddle and who made up for lack of finesse with dogged determination , and David Waterlane 's son , Mike , now nearly twenty-one , who played like an angel when his father was n't on the sideline bellowing at him . |
| 16 | Lalage was not on the list . |
| 17 | But the fact is that a Hunt victory was not on the Ferrari books if they had ceded — after a re-start which looked as though it favoured Hunt — they would have been lynched in Italy , where only a Ferrari is allowed to win . |
| 18 | Indeed , it was necessary for the Government to carry the management of those companies with them so that any radical measures to expose the industries to serious restructuring or competition were not on the agenda . |
| 19 | Inevitably this meant that the tax-credit system proposed by the Heath Government was not on the agenda and nor were some of the more ambitious income-guarantee schemes which inevitably required reform of taxation and social security being taken together . |
| 20 | TIMING was not on the side of Thames Television yesterday as it unveiled the £57million purchase of American TV production house Reeves . |
| 21 | If this exception was not on the policy the Insured could attempt to hold the company liable if any damage to the plant or own surrounding property was caused by the test . |
| 22 | Carradine was n't on the floor , alive or dead . |
| 23 | It was made clear that a management buy-out was not on the agenda . |
| 24 | They said the part was not on the Boeing checklist , even though it has been widely blamed for the crash , which killed at least 43 people . |
| 25 | The problem with HMS Sheffield was that Exocet 's homing radar was not on the computer 's list of enemy equipment . |
| 26 | Le Monde of Feb. 3 described the " sudden conversion " of Modrow ( who had previously stressed that reunification was not on the agenda ) as a response to rising popular pressure for reunification and to the continuing exodus of East Germans to West Germany . |
| 27 | At the time , in a cosmopolitan place , racism was not on the agenda . |
| 28 | However it just so happens the last time an election was n't on a Thursday was in er I think it was nineteen thirty one when it was held on a Tuesday . |
| 29 | If she put an ashtray in the wrong place , she 'd get beaten up ; if she never put his paper in the right place , she 'd get beaten up ; if he came in from work and his dinner was n't on the table , she 'd get beaten up . |
| 30 | Oliver 's bag was not on the floor . |