Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb pp] of [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 i have not heard of a similar setup at least — the only player who is remincent in norway of flo and almost as good in the air has been out injured this season so the setup has not been tried and maybe never will — at least it shows that coach Egil ‘ Drillo ’ Olsen — thinks — which might not be said of Mr Turnip .
2 Strange , I thought , I have not heard of a prominent baseball authority with that name .
3 It revealed most black and ethnic minority households interviewed in south east Hampshire had not heard of the local council 's SSD .
4 In one recent survey of income support claimants in Bradford , Asian respondents made up nine out of ten of those who had not heard of the Social Fund ( Craig , 1991 ) .
5 The more natural meaning seems to me to be , ‘ at starting in the profession , ’ for it will be observed that these words are used by the testator in reciting a prior promise made when the testator had not heard of the proposed marriage with Ellen Nicholl , or , so far as appears , heard of any proposed marriage .
6 Nor are evolutionary processes progressive or purposive ; the primitive single-celled creatures which were our early forebears were not possessed of a burning imperative , or driven by a mystic higher force , to evolve into sentient humans .
7 It was a pity that Matthew was not made of the same admirable stuff .
8 She 'd always envied Mandy her wonderful looks and her voluptuous compact figure , but she had long ago accepted the fact that she and Mandy were not made of the same stuff .
9 She was not told of the foster mother 's application for leave to apply for a residence order and knew nothing about it until after leave had been granted .
10 Because none of the men formally lodged complaints , the authority was not told of the three extra cases until after Mr Dear 's purge .
11 Anglo-Norman literature was not constituted of the random dregs and splashes of French literature that landed in England ; it formed an organic literary corpus of its own , and , most significantly in this context , formed part of a trilingual medieval English literary corpus , as exemplified by certain great English , Latin and Anglo-Norman manuscript miscellanies of the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries .
12 They were not forewarned of the final paragraph , added by a Vatican envoy : ‘ There is no way the Bishops could want to be disrespectful to His Excellency the Life President of the Republic , whom they hold in high esteem . ’
13 Hickson and Jacques severed direct contact with each other ; Shearman and Pateman had a major disagreement over a question of loyalty to the WEA , and the two new university resident tutors were not informed of the proposed developments nor invited to comment on the proposals which might affect Essex and Norfolk .
14 " You obviously have n't heard of the noble institution of the congaie ? "
15 Teething gel ( I had n't heard of the homeopathic granules then ) just before a feed established normal feeding again .
16 And I had n't thought of the blessed man in the last two hours — at least barely thought .
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