Question: However, meat is used in regional cooking, though in nothing like the same range and imaginative presentation.
Regional cooking really varies by area.

Answer: it is not possible to tell

Question: Nowadays the laterite stonework of many of the remaining churches has been thoughtfully and carefully covered with lime plaster to protect them against deterioration from the heavy waters of the dreaded Indian monsoons.
No effect has been made to protect the laterite stonework of any of the churches that remain.

Answer: no

Question: This was the case in connection with Enron and certain other business failures.
This wasn't the case in connection with Enron and certain other business failures.

Answer:
no