Example sentences of "be not [verb] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not made of fan material , and find it hard to understand . |
| 2 | I am not speaking of areas where the land is naturally productive and crofts are , in effect , small family farms . |
| 3 | But I am not talking of architecture . ’ |
| 4 | We have to be able to make distinctions between parents , usually mothers , who are not suspected of involvement and parents , usually — although not exclusively — fathers , who are . |
| 5 | Scaevola disappoints them by informing them that they are not freed of liability . |
| 6 | So-called ‘ tins ’ are made in this way , and are not composed of tin itself . |
| 7 | You are not made of ice . |
| 8 | They too look good on the shelves , though are not made of wood . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We are not speaking of children or of young persons below the age which the law may fix as that of manhood or womanhood . |
| 11 | ‘ You are not to think of making do with a collation on Ash Wednesday ’ , he said to me . |
| 12 | The impersonal imagery is essential if we are not to think of God as a person like ourselves . |
| 13 | We are not talking of resurrection experiences here but of people needing to see for themselves what has been reported to them , so that the fact becomes obvious and denial or alternative explanations are less credible . |
| 14 | ‘ We are not talking of excesses or cruelty by soldiers on soldiers in the heat of battle . |
| 15 | But these tasks are not expected of students because they are quasi-research activities . |
| 16 | And they do this in an atmosphere which is often biased against them , and which requires sacrifices that are not expected of men . |
| 17 | We 're not made of money . ’ |
| 18 | they 're not ripening of course , but they 're strawberries , birds are enjoying them , look , look at the size of them , ridiculous is n't it ? . |
| 19 | You see we 're not talking of newspapers as we probably traditionally known , we 're talking commercial interest . |
| 20 | I 'm not made of wood , and neither are you . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm not made of money , Mrs Parvis . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm not made of paper , Luke . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm not thinking of money . |
| 24 | But I 'm not thinking of marriage . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm not speaking of money , ’ Sheldukher continued . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | But they were not deprived of children . |
| 30 | ‘ Although it is not made of gold , it is true that gold is a very common metal there . |