Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [not/n't] [verb] of [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I am not talking of secondary schools , although there are some very small secondary schools in Oxfordshire .
2 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 " .
3 We were not starved of new westerns in that era when great old stars were playing aged gunfighters and movie squabbled with movie on the ideological terrain laid out by the war in Vietnam .
4 They are not composed of real people .
5 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 .
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