Example sentences of "[was/were] not [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sure that when you adopted your working together slogan you were not thinking that it included employers . |
| 2 | The children , in their foster homes in mainland Scotland , were not notified that the hearing was to take place . |
| 3 | They were not told that the client on that occasion had cancelled the deal . |
| 4 | Patients were instructed to fill in the two diaries for 14 days , but were not told that the computer automatically records date of data entry , nor were they given instructions of what to do should they have forgotten to make the daily entry . |
| 5 | We were not persuaded that this was a sufficient ground for distinguishing the two cases . |
| 6 | The crew were not to know that this day would be so different from their previous raid on Berlin . |
| 7 | If in addition promises were made , as it seems they were , of helping to boost wage rates , and if particular grievances were also thrown into the package , it is not necessarily paradoxical that women should have agreed both to the five-year ban on entry ( they were not to know that it would really be a permanent one ) and to the assigning of all new machines to men . |
| 8 | If it were not known that pupil-dilation was intimately related to neurological functioning of the brain its absence in some cases of head injury might go unremarked ; but once its significance is appreciated , such a seemingly slight symptom assumes drastic importance . |
| 9 | ‘ Is n't it also unacceptable that it took the management of British Nuclear Fuels longer than one might expect to make this incident public , especially bearing in mind that Dr Lewis Moonie [ a Labour front-bencher ] and I actually visited this site on Thursday and Friday of last week and were not informed that these excessive discharges had taken place ? ’ |
| 10 | Is the Attorney-General aware that , while the West Bromwich building society and financial advisers have grown fat and rich by selling home income equity bonds , 14,000 pensioners face the prospect of losing their homes , including some of my constituents who were not advised that the bonds were dangerous ? |
| 11 | Everyone presenting data at the conference was careful to point out that they were not saying that lead is safe , even at low levels , but the ‘ do n't knows ’ do not form a powerful lobby . |
| 12 | Cheshire police stressed that they were not saying that the men pictured were the bombers . |
| 13 | Around the same time the first desktop publishing programs , although they were n't called that , were beginning to emerge on Unix-based engines like the Sun and Apollo . |
| 14 | It was a fool 's paradise , but they were n't to know that , and it was hardly surprising that few worried much about the maintenance of British-financed production . |
| 15 | It was not conceived that these made up , in present-day terms , a system for securing and guaranteeing quality . |
| 16 | It was not intended that the Villa would be used as a residence ( the east wing of the old mansion being retained as the family residence ) , but mainly for the exhibition of the fine collection of paintings and sculptures which the Duke had gathered together , including examples of Holbein ; Rembrandt : Leonardo da Vinci ; Titian ; Van Dyke and Rubens . |
| 17 | Making war in the twelfth century was rather like going on strike in the twentieth : it was a method of exerting economic and financial pressure on your opponent — it was not intended that it should end in his death . |
| 18 | It was not intended that colleges should have to resubmit or revise their current schemes at the point of transfer . |
| 19 | The truth of the matter was that in the absence of relevant reliable information any global sum had to be determined in a somewhat arbitrary way , but in any case it was not intended that everybody should be paid the full value of their claims . |
| 20 | To ask how a piece of machinery worked was not to deny that each part had been designed with a function in mind . |
| 21 | To make the recognition now was not to deny that she and her father had been aware of their flaws and petty vices ; but to consider themselves only commonly fallible was less than half the tale . |
| 22 | It was not disputed that the effect of Rule 4.90 between Mr Sawar and BCCI was to reduce his indebtedness to BCCI by the amount outstanding to his credit in the deposit account . |
| 23 | Before me it was not disputed that if the joint tenancy was severed , she and her husband thereafter were beneficially interested in the two properties in equal shares . |
| 24 | The evidence produced included a transcript in English of Price 's evidence before the City Court of Gôteborg ; and it was not disputed that this evidence was admissible under paragraph 12 of the Schedule 1 . |
| 25 | It was not disputed that such interference with business is tortious if any unlawful means are used . ’ |
| 26 | It was not disputed that teachers ought to be aware of the relation between educational success and failure and the language children being to school , or that some teachers need to give a good deal of time to the study of reading . |
| 27 | There was however no detailed evidence of the employer 's turnover or size although it was not disputed that the profit under the contract amounted to $10.8 million . |
| 28 | LORD Justice Clerk Ross , delivering the opinion of the court , said that it was not disputed that there was sufficient evidence if the jury accepted it to establish that the appellant Low ( the first appellant ) was guilty of charge 3 , the murder charge , on the basis of his own actings . |
| 29 | But if he decides for Mrs. McLoughlin , then he has intervened in Mr. O'Brian 's life even though the latter was not warned that this would happen . |
| 30 | It was not felt that the information produced was of sufficient quality to assist in planning services . |