Example sentences of "were not [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | An important clue was his reading of Malthus on population , which allowed him to see that the ‘ struggle for existence ’ caused by population pressure would act within the species , killing off any individuals who were not well adapted to the conditions and allowing only the ‘ fittest ’ ( i.e. best-adapted ) individuals to survive and breed . |
| 2 | The numbers were vast and this was very largely because the movies were not just appealing to sections of the masses but to the masses in general . |
| 3 | Guide books from the mid-twelfth century to " The Wonders of Rome " ( Mirabilia Urbis Rome ) began to pay attention to the pagan monuments and were not just guides to the tombs of the martyrs and the saints . |
| 4 | Specialised computing functions were not just confined to scientific and mathematical calculators . |
| 5 | Most seriously , the only feminists of any note who were not vehemently opposed to the attempt to introduce Prussian–Napoleonic regulation of prostitution into Britain were Elizabeth Garrett Anderson , and in the 1890s the maverick temperance campaigner Lady Henry Somerset . |
| 6 | The Catholics , having come so far in undermining the old Orange State , were not easily going to be satisfied , and the urban working-class Protestants were not about to relinquish fifty years of social and political superiority without a fight . |
| 7 | But we must accept that these occasional audible signals were not even meant to be heard by all the chorus singers : they were to be heard by the sub-conductor(s) , who would then relay the beat visually . |
| 8 | To ensure that conjugates were not non-specifically bound to eosinophils , control sections were treated with 1% chromotrope 2 R. |
| 9 | ( 1983 ) found that changes in real GDFCF by firms between 1962 and 1980 were not strongly related to the previous year 's change in real consumer spending or demand . |
| 10 | By the Carboniferous many of the shapes we see in living gastropods can be matched in the fossils , but despite these similarities the majority of the Palaeozoic forms were not closely related to their living analogues ; this is another example of similar-looking forms evolving independently probably in response to similar life habits . |
| 11 | The separate funding provided for the study of fisheries allowed oceanographers to develop their own institutions and professional networks , which were not closely linked to those of the universities or agricultural research stations . |
| 12 | Like McAllister he was discovering that it was easy to bear the grief and pain of others when you were not emotionally committed to them . |
| 13 | Although the ‘ phoney war ’ was still continuing , the outlook was sombre : bacon , butter and sugar rationing was introduced that month , and people were not yet adjusted to the blackout . |
| 14 | He had a ‘ gut feeling ’ , he said , that the American people were not yet committed to war , and so he urged Mr Bush to pursue a meeting in Baghdad between James Baker , the secretary of state , and Saddam Hussein — as well as finding a date on which Iraq 's foreign minister could come to Washington . |
| 15 | Established birth control and resulting low fertility permitted a unique advance in marriage at a time when married women were not yet committed to the work-force . |
| 16 | Sadly , pregnant girls were not yet flocking to this club , even after a launch day at the civic centre , and radio advertising . |
| 17 | If the sources were not already known to the IRA , the author of the alleged MI5 documents may have committed a grave breach of security by alluding to them . |
| 18 | Those of the fort 's garrison who were not instantly blown to pieces had their lungs burst by the blast waves travelling along the corridors . |
| 19 | Indeed Franco-Russian disputes on this issue flared up briefly once more in the 1760s and were not finally laid to rest until 1772 . |
| 20 | The other 6000 men , the ‘ controls ’ were not simply left to their own devices . |
| 21 | Of 102 value-related statements elicited from nineteen individuals , only two were not clearly related to two core values of nurturance and affiliation . |
| 22 | Can my hon. and diplomatic Friend assure us that these important diplomatic communications were not ultimately put to any ignoble use ? |
| 23 | The apostles of Jesus were not merely witnesses to the Lord 's resurrection ( clearly an unrepeatable function in the historical sense ) , but also a source of decision-making or pastoral jurisdiction in the early communities . |
| 24 | Working-class Protestants had some material advantages over their Catholic competitors and enjoyed preferential treatment in housing and local government employment but these advantages were sometimes marginal and were not often felt to be considerable advantages because the Protestants did not sit down to statistical comparisons of their standards of living with the opportunities of Catholics . |
| 25 | From the point of view of natural creation , however , dare we suggest that a not altogether unfeeling God introduced the sound as a warning to its prey , so that in the natural economy , mosquitoes did not have an unfair advantage and that all warm-blooded creatures in mosquito-infested areas were not permanently condemned to a life of itching and scratching ! |
| 26 | The lay subsidy rolls of the fourteenth century yield much information on the subject of bynames and surnames for all categories of persons , and in many cases it seems true to say that such names were not necessarily applied to whole families nor ( given that they appear in different forms in successive rolls ) can they be judged to have stabilized . |
| 27 | It was widely believed that the courts were used to further disputes which were not necessarily related to the ostensible complaint . |
| 28 | Whatever the rules were , they were not necessarily made to be broken , but they were n't necessarily there to be obeyed either . |
| 29 | The validity of comparing the effects of cyclosporin and placebo on ulcerative volitis in patients who were not randomly admitted to the study or who were removed from the study owing to the severity of ulcerative colitis disease activity can be justified as follows . |
| 30 | Instead of an associative mechanism ( what they refer to as ‘ enrichment ’ ) , Gibson and Gibson ( 1955 ) ( see also Gibson 1969 ) advocate an interpretation in terms of their differentiation theory whereby subjects become able to respond to aspects of the cues that were present from the outset but were not initially responded to . |