Example sentences of "[was/were] not [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The projected dividends were not intended to be a forecast . |
| 2 | The Home Secretary 's reserve powers were not intended to be used frequently and this was the first time they had been used . |
| 3 | Linda 's photos — taken in Paul 's early heady years of fatherhood — were not intended to be published at the time . |
| 4 | Many were recovered from dark caves and rock crevices where they were not intended to be seen by mortal eyes . |
| 5 | Very many misunderstandings occur because messages are decoded in ways in which they were not intended to be . |
| 6 | The categories were not intended to be exhaustive . |
| 7 | This difference in treatment between pre- and post-petition assignments is so stark that the inevitable conclusion is that pre-petition assignments were not intended to be outlawed . |
| 8 | These select committees were not intended to be tied to producing particular reports , but were to collect information and let the House and the public know what disputes were going on and what agreements were being reached within ministries , between them and between civil servants and outside pressure groups . |
| 9 | Nathan Marcus Adler [ q.v. ] , the ‘ chief rabbi ’ , became the supreme ecclesiastical authority of this body ; ministers of its constituent synagogues were not intended to be rabbinical authorities , but merely preachers and pastors . |
| 10 | Many early treaty collections , nevertheless , were not intended to be available to the general public at all . |
| 11 | Two striking differences from British and American assemblies were noticeable : top government officials were not disbarred from being deputies , the deputies were all part-timers who held another full-time job . |
| 12 | In terms of local organizational interests , the twin principles of decanting to London hospitals on the one hand and to another large asylum on the other were not felt to be incompatible with modernization of the service . |
| 13 | Plans had been put in hand as early as 1978 ( the so-called ‘ Ridley plan ’ : Young , 1990 , pp. 358–60 ) to tackle the miners in a later confrontation on terms favourable to the government ; indeed , because the conditions were not felt to be ripe , the government pulled back from an earlier potential confrontation in 1981 , and allowed a large pay settlement for the NUM ( Young , 1990 ) . |
| 14 | But when one is dealing with associative use , we have to do with a binary distinction ; the adjective is introduced solely to indicate that its property , even though applicable to some other entity , is associated with the entity of its noun phrase , and here there are only two possible states — either the property is associated , in the view of the speaker , or it is not ( and of course by a slightly curious consequence of the communicational process , the state must always be the positive one , since if the property were not felt to be associated with that entity and needed for identification , then the adjective which designates that property would simply not appear ) . |
| 15 | For a start there were no agreed criteria for subdividing the cerebral cortex into regions , and criteria were not destined to be developed for about another century . |
| 16 | In the event , those fingerprints were not sought to be compared or used in evidence . |
| 17 | If — hairbrush microphones in hand — they were not pretending to be Abba , it was Welsh star Bonnie Tyler who was the inspiration for their unenthusiastic warblings . |
| 18 | The report says they found large numbers of chemicals being dumped which were NOT licensed to be discharged . |
| 19 | The place had n't filled up yet but she noticed that the boys were congregating at the end of the hall beneath the balcony and on the left hand side while the girls were spread between the tables and chairs on the opposite wall , chatting and giggling and trying to pretend they were not waiting to be asked to dance . |
| 20 | There is inherent bias in this study , however , as these cases were not shown to be screen negative , and the age at which polyps were found merely reflects the age at which they were called up for screening . |
| 21 | Nonviral proteins have been incorporated into viral particles , for example , CD4 and chimaeric CD4-envelope proteins into avian retroviruses 12 , but the displayed proteins were not shown to be folded . |
| 22 | Organizations such as Students for a Democratic Society contributed to the development of the ‘ New Left ’ whose main aim was to ensure that professionals , managers and students were not reduced to being the mere tools of the ruling class . |
| 23 | One of the initial purposes of the World Bank was to aid post-war reconstruction through the provision of finance , since private capital markets were not expected to be able to cope with the scale of the problem . |
| 24 | This broke the tradition whereby Presidential Addresses were not expected to be highly personal ; the convention was that the President reviewed the scientific developments in the past twelve months , usually appealed for more public support for research and education , and might indicate what avenues seemed most hopeful . |
| 25 | In other words , cash limits were not expected to be adjusted during the subsequent year to take account of inflation . |
| 26 | Some of the instruments on the telescope , especially those operating in ultra-violet light , were not expected to be seriously affected . |
| 27 | Greece , which sent 20 per cent of exports through Yugoslavia , would be compensated , while other EC countries were not expected to be heavily affected . |
| 28 | They also found that some combined health and education needs were not considered to be adequately covered by the definition , citing speech therapy as a prime example . |
| 29 | The inclusion of the retired as a separate group added a socio-demographic element to the typology and , although the classification was two-dimensional , the two axes were not considered to be independent . |
| 30 | The law said nothing about duels between species which were not considered to be human — although that did not prevent an offended party from seeking recourse . |