Example sentences of "[noun] was [not/n't] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My parents ’ marriage was not approved of by my father 's family , although my mother was a Darcy and well connected . |
| 2 | Nasser was not informed of his mothers death until he returned to Khatatba , several months later , when it came as a great shock . |
| 3 | It was a pity that Matthew was not made of the same admirable stuff . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But Lord Dacre was not thinking of the odd circumstance that had resulted in his stepping into his cousin 's shoes . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They lived in Madison Avenue and young Lee was n't deprived of anything . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | From long experience , Belinda 's younger brothers would have known in an instant by the crisp , deceptively mild tone that she was no longer fooling around , but unfortunately Greg Carey was n't possessed of this experience , so he said on a thick , purring note , ‘ Because you need to loosen up , get rid of some inhibitions . |
| 11 | But Davide was not made of the stuff of American uncles . |
| 12 | Because none of the men formally lodged complaints , the authority was not told of the three extra cases until after Mr Dear 's purge . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 20 | Mr Hayden , who at this stage was not thinking of the supernatural , said , ‘ I think you are lost , sir . |
| 21 | C was not advised of this call , nor of a further call from the solicitor the following morning . |