Example sentences of "[noun prp] [coord] [was/were] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1956 he had delivered a scathing attack on Moscow for its invasion of Hungary and was not invited to the Soviet Union until 1971 . |
| 2 | Mr Leslie Draper , her solicitor , said : ‘ She was appalled at the hardship following atrocities in Northern Ireland and was not convinced enough was being done for the people left behind . |
| 3 | Consequently the locomotive was returned to Bridgnorth and was not able to fulfil its Red Rose run on Monday September 23rd , which would have taken the locomotive from Crewe to Carnforth where it was to have had two south-bound outings on Cumbrian Mountain Expresses of October 26th and November 16th . |
| 4 | TEDO was a successor in title according to the F.C.C. and was not a British national at the relevant dates , therefore the plaintiff failed . |
| 5 | Wantage was a decent little town but had less than half the population of Newbury and no inhabitant worth more than £80 , though four others had £40 — £60 ; average wealth of well under £6 compares poorly with almost £10 in Newbury and was not much higher than in most villages . |
| 6 | Julie and Elizabeth 's relatives have been over to South Africa and were not treated very well at all by the police . |
| 7 | New jobs , particularly in financial and professional services were being created in the City and in Docklands but were not going to local residents . |
| 8 | The accident occurred late on Tuesday or early on Wednesday but was not discovered until a few survivors emerged and bodies began floating ashore . |
| 9 | The barony of Scrope devolved on the representative of his niece Mary but was not taken up ; the earldom of Sunderland became extinct . |
| 10 | Four troops of yeomanry were held in reserve in Luton but were not needed . |
| 11 | In October 1980 Rajinder Anand and his brother Gurcharan Anand gave an undertaking to a High Court judge , Mr Justice Graham , that they would refrain from handling any cassettes that bore the name Sony but were not genuine Sony products . |
| 12 | According to Goody and Watt , the development of alphabetic script and its wide diffusion throughout society — the two criteria for ‘ literacy ’ as they mean it — happened independently within Greece and were not the result of cultural borrowing . |
| 13 | He had been fading from importance for some time , had been replaced as Unionist leader in the Lords by Curzon and was not a minister under Lloyd George . |
| 14 | Some had travelled a considerable distance for example from Australia , Germany , Belgium and the USA and were not disappointed by either the welcome or the expertise offered them . |
| 15 | Dennis Stewart , the Olympic light-heavyweight bronze medal-winner , lost his first fight against Jens Geisler and was not given an opportunity for the repechage . |
| 16 | In style it owed much to Ancient Rome but was not only a copy of it ; it showed Byzantine influence and also new ideas , adapting itself to its own period . |
| 17 | The only person who approached me was poor Ian Smith , who came to London but was not a representative at the talks . |
| 18 | This was well north of any line of march from Wales to the north east , which suggests that Gloucester had business in Lancashire and was not just en route to join his brother , who was then at York . |
| 19 | This was well north of any line of march from Wales to the north east , which suggests that Gloucester had business in Lancashire and was not just en route to join his brother , who was then at York . |
| 20 | He was educated at Mill Hill School under Dr Thorowgood and was not intended for any profession until family losses made it necessary . |
| 21 | By contrast , the expression of the α v containing fibronectin binding integrin was reduced to 53% by treatment with DNJ but was not altered by DMJ . |