Example sentences of "was not [verb] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house was not vacated for several months . |
| 2 | He was educated at Mill Hill School under Dr Thorowgood and was not intended for any profession until family losses made it necessary . |
| 3 | Her own sense of failure was projected into others in order to ward off a depression about herself which finally overwhelmed her and was not to lift for some years . |
| 4 | Together with this evidence must be the proof that the passenger was not licensed for that class of vehicle etc . |
| 5 | Analysis to this level was not undertaken for all sub-systems , only those where some significant change was implied , as even the secondary expansion was extensive and time-consuming . |
| 6 | They were charged that they did contrive , design and plot to murder MOIR NcILCHENICH widow of Ellister for mere avarice and covetousness to attain to her money which they supposed she had lying by her in her house and in pursuance of this plot did upon some day of April 1698 in dead time of night murder her by strangling her with her own belt and thereafter threw her body over a rock into the sea so that the deed was not discovered for some time . |
| 7 | Sir Denys , a 58-year-old Scot and a lawyer by training , took over from Sir John Harvey-Jones in 1987 ( who is now chairman of The Economist but was not consulted for this article ) . |
| 8 | A further merger took place in 1847 when the Edinburgh and Dundee Steam Packet Company joined the fleet and in 1852 when regular sailings to Hamburg commenced the name was changed to Leith , Hull and Hamburgh Steam Packet Company ( the spelling of the word ‘ Hamburgh ’ was not to change for some years hence ) . |
| 9 | Despite the mixed response from critics , Dustin felt pride in his achievement and confidence in the film itself , so he expressed his anger when Little Big Man was not nominated for any Oscars . |
| 10 | He pointed out that , unlike the South Western Board , he was not asking for any subsidy . |
| 11 | She retired quickly after her friend into the kitchen , overcome by a sense of invaded privacy ; a garden , to her , was not meant for such intimacies . |
| 12 | The white queen rolled under the table and was not found for several weeks . |
| 13 | The idea of the emergent Pacific was not in anyone 's mind , and in any case the reality of it was not to appear for many years . |
| 14 | Naturally an appeal was made by the McLaren team but the dispute was not resolved for many weeks . |
| 15 | The Bull & Gate surely was n't built for this sort of punishment . |
| 16 | Apparently he was n't touting for more Pest Control business , rather his tropical iguana had escaped and made off through the undergrowth . |
| 17 | What if Lubor said he had heard , but that Ven was n't returning for another week ? |