Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] [verb] of [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , Nuadu had found his way to the strange twilight community of the Wolfwood ; the place that gave shelter to the half-breeds : the bastard sons of Royal Houses , the creatures who were not possessed of sufficient Beastblood to be acknowledged at Tara , but yet were not entirely Human . |
| 2 | Fenella saw , with a thrill of horror , that as his hand went through the colours , the robes shivered as if they were not made of plain cloth , but of some living , breathing substance . |
| 3 | The most amusing of these is the suggestion that pikemen worse short buff-coats made from imported buffalo leather from America , while in fact pikemen did not wear buff-coats , and the buff-coats which were worn by cavalry troopers were not made of American buffalo leather but local oxhide . |
| 4 | Emmanuelli , who was not suspected of personal enrichment , denied the charges , describing them as " artificial " and politically motivated . |
| 5 | Its design , like Dot 's , was of crossed flags but was n't made of scratchy tin with rusting edges . |