Example sentences of "was not [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The armed group was not believed to be connected with the Jungle Commando guerrilla group which has been fighting the Suriname Government on and off since 1986 , he said . |
| 2 | However , as the need for this particular type of system was not believed to be acute , it was not pursued further at the time . |
| 3 | The organism was not believed to be a clinical problem . |
| 4 | The spokesman said the man was taken to the Darlington Memorial Hospital , where his condition was not believed to be serious . |
| 5 | The man was not wanting to be interviewed , but such is the power of television that he had to agree . |
| 6 | The first National Government was not intended to be a coalition government in the normal sense of the term . |
| 7 | Rather than some forbidding official document , his report consisted of a letter to me with the disclaimer that it was not intended to be a major addition to the already considerable library of the National Health Service . |
| 8 | We made it clear that the list of authors was not intended to be comprehensive : ‘ We stress again that we are not recommending as set texts the books of the authors listed … |
| 9 | When he was consecrated , however , Cranmer made a public protestation that any oath which he took acknowledging the authority of the Pope was not intended to be binding if it were against the law of God or the King 's prerogatives , nor would it bind him to be less free in reformation of the Church . |
| 10 | Perhaps I may also be permitted to use some of your space to assure your readers that the arrival of Triassic and Lilla for our Summer Gala ( June 20th/21st ) was not intended to be in any way the last minute and the locomotives arrived just two days before the event , so we preferred not to advertise them in advance so as to avoid disappointment . |
| 11 | The ECSC was not , and was not intended to be , that type of institution . |
| 12 | The land tax was not intended to be a pension fund , but it is evident that it could , and occasionally did , serve as such , for joint-collectorships were common . |
| 13 | The film was not intended to be a realistic portrayal of the war : indeed , it was thematically based on Joseph Conrad 's Heart of Darkness , set in Africa at the turn of the century . |
| 14 | A third party right can not be revoked or modified by the parties if it is established that the right was not intended to be so revocable or modifiable without the third party 's consent . |
| 15 | And then , looking at the workmen , and the yellow emerging stone , she almost noticed that the station was not intended to be a station but a work of art , a building ambitiously decorated with scrolls and figures and carvings : ill-decorated , but decorated nonetheless . |
| 16 | Although , therefore , the seizure was not intended to be permanent , conventual houses were largely unmolested , and wherever possible existing religious were allowed to farm the alien priories , the protraction of the war and the intention of the king to profit from this source as much as possible led to the permanent secularization of some monastic lands , and the extended management and farming of others by laymen as well as by royal clerks . |
| 17 | This magnificent object was found by a peat-digger in dismantled condition , the embossed plates being stacked in the bottom , a sign that it was not intended to be recovered but was deposited as an offering . |
| 18 | The FMI was not intended to be implemented immediately , but was to develop over time , and at a different pace in different departments . |
| 19 | We noted at the start of this chapter that our study of school management was not intended to be comprehensive : our concern was the management of PNP rather than that of every aspect of a school 's professional work . |
| 20 | It was neither quiet nor unobtrusive , since it was not intended to be . |
| 21 | It was a personal letter addressed to his family , and like any personal letter it was not intended to be read by outsiders . |
| 22 | The trick of public relations , Branson discovered , was not to pretend to be something you were not , but simply to project what you were on to a larger canvas . |
| 23 | I could see from the diagram how the back of the work should look , what I was not prepared for was how the front of the work could look . |
| 24 | Though the School was successful on the academic side , it was not proving to be financially worthwhile , and the establishment of Public Elementary Schools by the 1870 Education Act did nothing to help . |
| 25 | Some time later , she acknowledged that the task was not proving to be as easy as she had expected . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , many argued that , once again , Mr Yeltsin was not seen to be taking charge when most needed . |
| 27 | The first is that by positioning himself conspicuously behind a veil , the Resident could leave the population in a state of desirable uncertainty about the degree of influence he actually exercised over their emir : his advice was not seen to be taken , but neither was it seen to be rejected . |
| 28 | The UK was not seen to be a true ‘ European ’ — a contention which many would say holds true today — and it tends to view the EC as an economic , rather than as a political union . |
| 29 | It was not felt to be a good idea to mention the word ‘ grovel ’ in the presence of the England captain , especially as he had scored only 38 runs in five innings . |
| 30 | Circumstances arose in South London whereby , paradoxically , a certain virulently racist agitator was not felt to be acceptable as a CAB . |