Example sentences of "not [verb] [be] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | To rush in and quantify a situation which one does not understand is wasteful of the time of both researchers and informants . |
| 2 | The wealth of other trades was on a much smaller scale , one that can not have been untypical of most provincial communities . |
| 3 | Under the old law of larceny he may not have been guilty of attempted larceny . |
| 4 | He can not have been unaware of the risk . |
| 5 | N F U and C LA could surely not have been oblivious of the fact that this shortage was one which farmers and landowners , in their role as councillors , had been responsible for creating . |
| 6 | With the coming of civilisation and the beginning of this , the third of the Three Periods into which the reader is reminded the explanation of the Created God is divided , man was on the threshold of the era of his greatest testing , even though at that time he may not have been aware of it . |
| 7 | The compilers of the English dictionary may not have been aware of , or may have chosen to ignore , Ayrshire 's legendary claim to King Cole . |
| 8 | He could not have been aware of it , for it was the only untidy thing in the room , a banner of disorder in the midst of the most rigid ranking . |
| 9 | She wrote that without the challenge of some who were Christians of a particular persuasion , " I would not have been aware of how deeply my own assumptions had constructed the fantasy that I had desired " ( Kathy Raban in Hammond et al. |
| 10 | That is , previous readers would have grasped the play in Freeman 's terms , in so far as they validly comprehended it , but they would not have been aware of so doing , meantime foolishly talking of it in irrelevant , non-explanatory , " folk " ways . |
| 11 | He should not have been ashamed of his grandfather , of course , but his upbringing had been pitiful , constantly on the march from one to another of a whole series of ‘ uncles ’ — there were several between his father and the solicitor — so that he had nothing stable in his life at all . |
| 12 | All this head of steam must have been boiling up at the time of JTR 's visit and yet he seems not to have been aware of it . |
| 13 | At the time , Anselm seems not to have been aware of the importance of the words which he heard , for he left Rome the next day without further discussion and returned to Lyons . |
| 14 | Liza could not help being conscious of the similarity of the weather conditions which , nine months previously , had been responsible for today 's journey . |
| 15 | We now know that Robin Smith , John Cunningham and Pat Walsh in Scotland , and Arthur Dolphin and Pete Greenwood in the Lakes , were doing first ascents every bit as difficult as those by Joe Brown and Don Whillans — but I do n't remember being aware of this at the time . |
| 16 | She would n't have been afraid of death . |
| 17 | One could n't help being over-critical of one 's own performance . |
| 18 | Yes well erm I mean you ca n't help being aware of past experiences . |
| 19 | It was a dirty trick to put it into to poor Mary Lou 's desk said Jean , she ca n't help being scared of things I suppose , she almost jumped out of her skin when she saw it , I should of thought any joker in our form would of been decent enough to popped it into say Alicia 's desk , not if it happened to be Alicia who popped it in said a sly voice , you do so love playing tricks do n't you Alicia ? |