Example sentences of "[am/are] [not/n't] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am not thinking of a police scene-of-crime picture . |
| 2 | Obviously I am not thinking of ‘ answers ’ as something necessarily conceptual or purely verbal , as if a Christian answer was a string of words beginning ‘ Christianity says that … . ’ |
| 3 | There is the dispositional fact that I believe my name is what it is , which is a fact about me when I am not thinking of my name . |
| 4 | I am not made of fan material , and find it hard to understand . |
| 5 | I am not speaking of areas where the land is naturally productive and crofts are , in effect , small family farms . |
| 6 | ‘ I am not speaking of the flowers , Georg . |
| 7 | But I am not talking of architecture . ’ |
| 8 | 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 " . |
| 9 | I am not talking of secondary schools , although there are some very small secondary schools in Oxfordshire . |
| 10 | For example , musical and philosophical skill — as opposed to the external rewards of reaching the ‘ top ’ in a musical or academic career , a kind of achievement which , if given central importance in our lives , will yield no abiding satisfaction , beset as we will be by worry as to what others are or are not thinking of us — can only be developed by an individual in a propitious environment where many co-operate in working at them . |
| 11 | This irresponsible attitude does nothing to help children , nor parents who are not suspected of abusing them . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The SNC meteorites are not suspected of being material ejected from Earth following a major impact and which subsequently fell back to Earth . |
| 14 | ‘ My fear is that people who are not suspected of committing an immigration offence may find themselves on this machine , which could have startling ramifications for them , ’ he said this week . |
| 15 | Scaevola disappoints them by informing them that they are not freed of liability . |
| 16 | We are not to suppose of this machine that when a chocolate bar does not come out there exists a causal circumstance which necessitates the failure . |
| 17 | Since the directors are the sole shareholders , the shareholders are not deprived of anything , and it could be said that the sole controllers are not dishonest within Ghosh . |
| 18 | In its composition the bakers are not sparing of fresh butter , milk and eggs ; but though it be raised it has a burned taste , and is too much like cake . |
| 19 | So-called ‘ tins ’ are made in this way , and are not composed of tin itself . |
| 20 | They are not composed of real people . |
| 21 | They too look good on the shelves , though are not made of wood . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | You are not made of ice . |
| 24 | With this aim in view , he makes explicit that what the sceptics deny is the possibility of knowledge of ‘ the inner nature of things … what the things are in themselves ’ ; when they say that there is no criterion of truth , ‘ they are not speaking of what things appear to be and of what is revealed by the senses … but of what things are in themselves , which is so hidden that no criterion can disclose it ’ . |
| 25 | We are not speaking of children or of young persons below the age which the law may fix as that of manhood or womanhood . |
| 26 | But biblical writers use similar phrases in contexts where it is clear they are not speaking of the whole world as we understand it ( Genesis 41:56–57 ; Acts 2:5 ) . |
| 27 | But , except for a few dedicated monarchists , Central Europeans are not dreaming of a restored Habsburg dynasty . |
| 28 | Or , as Bernard Mandeville put it , in his usual ambivalent , ironic manner : " it is manifest , that in a Free Nation , where Slaves are not allowed of , the surest wealth consists in a multitude of laborious poor … " |
| 29 | Referees complain that they are not notified of their match performance markings made by club managers . |
| 30 | Women are not advised of the risks and the necessary check-up services are rarely available . |