Example sentences of "be [not/n't] [verb] of [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not talking of municipal autonomy — they almost have that — but of self-rule as is written and spelled out in the Camp David accords " . |
| 2 | In its composition the bakers are not sparing of fresh butter , milk and eggs ; but though it be raised it has a burned taste , and is too much like cake . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If there are nine straight lines in the figure , then interpreting it as a drawing of a box means , among other things , thinking that the box is not made of transparent material . |
| 7 | Where perhaps a defendant has been a passenger and is not accused of reckless driving . |
| 8 | ‘ To me , if the kitchen 's not smelling of delicious food then there 's something wrong at home , ’ says Sheila , who does all her cooking herself . |
| 9 | Growing up seeing nothing but these truly ghastly buildings , never using anything that is n't made of shoddy material , how could such children become people who would recognise and choose anything that 's beautiful ? |
| 10 | Emmanuelli , who was not suspected of personal enrichment , denied the charges , describing them as " artificial " and politically motivated . |
| 11 | Its design , like Dot 's , was of crossed flags but was n't made of scratchy tin with rusting edges . |