Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [not/n't] [vb pp] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consent is not required of the shareholders of any company which is a wholly owned subsidiary . |
| 2 | They would perhaps be organic unities too in a sense close to Moore 's but the way in which the value of the whole was not composed of the values of the parts will be different . |
| 3 | Because none of the men formally lodged complaints , the authority was not told of the three extra cases until after Mr Dear 's purge . |
| 4 | As Davies told the Fabians , ‘ collective responsibility under these circumstances was a sham ’ : ‘ The Cabinet was not informed of the existence of this group , or of its critical decisions . |
| 5 | In these circumstances the creditor should be seeking to ensure that unfair advantage is not taken of the surety . |
| 6 | The row deepened with revelations that the BBC board was not told of the tax arrangement and was not aware that the director-general job had not been advertised before Mr Birt was appointed . |
| 7 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , where a creditor knew that security was being taken for the benefit of a debtor from a surety who was likely to be influenced by and to have some degree of reliance on the debtor , the creditor should seek to ensure that unfair advantage was not taken of the surety ; that , if the creditor failed to do so and the surety 's consent to the transaction was procured by the debtor 's undue influence or material misrepresentation or the surety lacked an adequate understanding of the nature and effect of the transaction , the security would be unenforceable ; that the bank knew that the defendants were husband and wife and that the wife was being asked to provide security for the husband 's business and was likely to rely on his judgment , and they should have ensured that she understood the nature and effect of the document which she was asked to sign ; and that , since the bank had failed to do so and had left it to the husband to explain the transaction , so that as a result of the husband 's misrepresentation the wife entered into the charge on the misunderstanding that her liability was limited to £60,000 , they could not enforce the charge against the wife save to the extent of £60,000 ( post , pp. 620C–G , 622F — 623C , D–F , 635G — 636F ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Again , her family were not told of the seriousness of the condition until a month later and just days defore she died . |