Example sentences of "was not [vb pp] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was to be a ‘ one-off ’ event and was not conceived of as the beginning of a moral protest movement or group . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In order to prove it was not composed of ‘ patsies ’ , as Reagan put it , the United States insisted that Arafat repeat specifically worded concessions concerning terrorism and recognition of Israel , and when he failed to do so verbatim , it required him to repeat the authorized US version . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Emmanuelli , who was not suspected of personal enrichment , denied the charges , describing them as " artificial " and politically motivated . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was a pity that Matthew was not made of the same admirable stuff . |
| 8 | Although somewhat bulky and unflattering , it was not unsuccessful as it blended with the current trend for layered clothes and endorsed the rustic air of a bygone age that other ‘ Laura Ashley ’ clothes were now describing , As they would not consider offering anything that was not made of 100 per cent natural fibres , they managed to complete the range by producing dresses in brushed cotton and cotton corduroy . |
| 9 | But Davide was not made of the stuff of American uncles . |
| 10 | The plaintiffs conceded that their product was not made of secret materials but secrecy arose from the way in which the materials were mixed , the temperature employed in various stages of manufacture and the method of testing the consistency of the product . |
| 11 | According to Irenaeus , the Ebionites insist that Jesus was man , not God , and was not born of a virgin . |
| 12 | It was not spoken of but drawn upon when it was needful . |
| 13 | Because none of the men formally lodged complaints , the authority was not told of the three extra cases until after Mr Dear 's purge . |
| 14 | At first , Hendry was not told of the mystery woman 's mission but was informed when he noticed the beefed-up security at his matches . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She was not told of the foster mother 's application for leave to apply for a residence order and knew nothing about it until after leave had been granted . |
| 17 | Jack Cunningham , MP , who was touring the site at the time , was not told of the incident . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | The fundamental issue , however , was not disposed of by this , and we shall see in chapter 7 how it erupted afresh in the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 20 | In Dresden , long known for a softer line than elsewhere , the Mayor , Wolfgang Berghofer , announced after talks with 20 church and New Forum opposition activists that he was willing to discuss their nine-point proposal , and release anyone arrested who was not accused of violence within 24 hours . |
| 21 | C was not advised of this call , nor of a further call from the solicitor the following morning . |
| 22 | Fascism was not thought of as a separate subject on the school curriculum , but the history of how Mussolini came to power was dealt with at length at the end of the modern history text-books . |
| 23 | ‘ My parents ’ marriage was not approved of by my father 's family , although my mother was a Darcy and well connected . |
| 24 | The adjudicator , C. Jordan , had not been a member of the Academy when the problem was originally posed , and it seems from his official report that he was not apprised of Smith 's priority . |
| 25 | ‘ Sir David English was not informed of the visit and in consequence had no plans to attend the Ideal Home Exhibition that day , ’ the official statement announced . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Bahrain station was not informed of their approach and so failed to light-up , and the moon has already set , so the pilot of Horsa overshot . |
| 28 | Anderton v. Lythgoe [ 1985 ] 1 W.L.R. 222 was a driver 's option case where the driver , having given two breath specimens , neither of which contained more than 50 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath , was not informed of his right under section 8(2) to require that a replacement specimen be provided in accordance with section 7(4) . |
| 29 | Nasser was not informed of his mothers death until he returned to Khatatba , several months later , when it came as a great shock . |
| 30 | It was not expected of her . |