Example sentences of "were not [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A central committee advisory board was created to accommodate three " old guard " revolutionaries who were not re-elected to the political bureau , namely Souphanouvong , Phoumi Vongvichit and Sisomphone Lovansay . |
| 2 | The projected dividends were not intended to be a forecast . |
| 3 | The Home Secretary 's reserve powers were not intended to be used frequently and this was the first time they had been used . |
| 4 | Linda 's photos — taken in Paul 's early heady years of fatherhood — were not intended to be published at the time . |
| 5 | Many were recovered from dark caves and rock crevices where they were not intended to be seen by mortal eyes . |
| 6 | Very many misunderstandings occur because messages are decoded in ways in which they were not intended to be . |
| 7 | The categories were not intended to be exhaustive . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Many early treaty collections , nevertheless , were not intended to be available to the general public at all . |
| 12 | The 1977 Porchester report published figures provided by MAFF to indicate the potential loss of agricultural production if 16,000 hectares of Exmoor stayed as rough sheep grazing and were not converted to grassland . |
| 13 | Although , strictly speaking , the bearers were not assigned to individuals and worked as a pool , carrying messages for anybody in the building , in practice they identified themselves with particular people . |
| 14 | Booking clinics were not geared to the needs of deaf mothers , who needed to be greeted and dealt with individually . |
| 15 | Drawings were not done to a standard scale ; the metric system was just being introduced in France and its conquered territories , where it replaced a range of different miles , fathoms , feet and inches ; and there were no standard interchangeable parts , even nuts and bolts and screws being individual . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | The results of this interim analysis were not revealed to the members of the study team until after the trial . |
| 20 | From Manners ' remarks in Parliament on 18th February , it is clear that he was by then already familiar with Scott 's proposals although the detailed drawings were not sent to his office until 3rd March . |
| 21 | The following year , 1926 the Ministry of Health issued draft proposals for reform of the Poor Law but copies were not sent to Boards of Guardians , and it was decided that a letter of protest about the omission should be sent . |
| 22 | These plans were not sent to the Parish Council or the local residents for comment . |
| 23 | ‘ It is obvious to me that you were not born to the position you now occupy . ’ |
| 24 | You were not invited to our country . |
| 25 | He was ringing people he did not like to tell them that they were not invited to his party on Wednesday night . |
| 26 | It meant the costs and the financial implications were not explained to the relatives , although the consequences for them were quite serious . |
| 27 | The evidence which is directed to the appellants ' intentions in relation to this matter of contempt is , first , that the appellants claim that the terms of the injunction made by the deputy judge in October 1989 were not explained to them . |
| 28 | At first sight they seemed distinct : voting patterns were not related to policy issues ; people spoke of their voting intentions in terms of fraternal solidarities , while they conducted a subtle and nuanced assessment of the effects of government on their own lives and on national prestige . |
| 29 | ( Contractors ) Ltd [ 1972 ] 3 All ER 557 ( CA ) the question arose whether profits lost in consequence of physical damage were alone recoverable , or whether profits lost which were not related to physical damage were also recoverable . |
| 30 | They were not related to the duration of gestation . |