Example sentences of "not made [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am , I think , not made for love . |
| 2 | We are not made for life or anything like that but there is a fair bit coming in . |
| 3 | I threw down my fibreglass extensions and made as polished an exit as possible , given that my huge orange plastic boots were not made for walking . |
| 4 | The finest bronze castings of Shang China and arguably of all time were not made for implements or even weapons , but for the ritual vessels centred on the cult of ancestors . |
| 5 | It was said that these were not made for Blackpool , but for another buyer . |
| 6 | Also with video we are quite likely to be using material which was not made for language teaching anyway and which will be full of visual elements we could exploit . |
| 7 | It is for the court to decide the weight which should be given to statements which are not made on oath and can not be tested by cross-examination . |
| 8 | In the event two of the five timed deliveries were not made on time and the sailings were lost . |
| 9 | Inter-State complaints are not made on behalf of an identified victim and , indeed , there may not even be such a defined person . |
| 10 | Yeah well they 're not made to work are they |
| 11 | ‘ Reference was not made to Viscount Dilhorne 's ruling that appropriation may occur even though the owner has permitted or consented to the property being taken . |
| 12 | You are not made of ice . |
| 13 | In the eleventh chapter of Hebrews , that great chapter which deals with ‘ the nature and fruits of faith ’ as it is headed in the ‘ Thompson Chain Reference ’ bible , the third verse reads as follows - ‘ Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God , so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Definitely a few , but it 's not made of feathers , that , sir , I can tell you . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm not made of money , Mrs Parvis . |
| 16 | We 're not made of money . ’ |
| 17 | In Yorkshire the houses of the period tend to be of stone rubble while in the former Wiltshire downlands they are more often than not made of cob , a mixture of chalk , straw and manure , or of flint rubble . |
| 18 | Or if a jeweller said , you know , the rings in my window are made of gold when really they were not made of gold at all , then that would be a false trade description . |
| 19 | ‘ Although it is not made of gold , it is true that gold is a very common metal there . |
| 20 | They too look good on the shelves , though are not made of wood . |
| 21 | I 'm not made of wood , and neither are you . |
| 22 | James said with sick irritation : ‘ Leave the man alone , Randall , he 's not made of eggshell . ’ |
| 23 | We suspected they were not made of sheepskin at all er and we took some of them away and analyzed them to find out what exactly are they made of . |
| 24 | At Firbank , where the chapel proved too small , he went out on to the fell to preach to the people , saying that God 's church was not made of stone but of the air and the countryside around . |
| 25 | It 's not made of plastic . |
| 26 | These figures of speech — hyperbole , metaphor , irony , sarcasm — work only if the sender has enough knowledge to know that average house cellars will not hold millions of bottles , women are not made of iron , and so on . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's not made of matter — like the surface the beetles were on — but that 's not to say it 's nothing . ’ |
| 28 | Not made of glass you know . |
| 29 | I am not made of fan material , and find it hard to understand . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm not made of paper , Luke . ’ |