Example sentences of "is [not/n't] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there are nine straight lines in the figure , then interpreting it as a drawing of a box means , among other things , thinking that the box is not made of transparent material . |
| 2 | ‘ Although it is not made of gold , it is true that gold is a very common metal there . |
| 3 | His state of nature is not Hobbes 's , for it is not composed of individuals following their natural instincts and living in fear of each other . |
| 4 | The scientific world is beginning to discover what metaphysical teachers have known for centuries , that our world is not composed of any matter at all and that its basic component is a kind of energy or force . |
| 5 | This means that water is not composed of individual molecules floating freely around but that the molecules are linked together . |
| 6 | Indeed , the interests of the capitalist class are served better when the state apparatus is not composed of members of this class than when it is , when the ‘ ruling class ’ is not the ‘ politically governing class ’ . |
| 7 | Oethelwald is not heard of again after the battle and Oswiu re-established an overkingship of the northern Angles with his son , Ealhfrith , as co-ruler or sub-king over the Deirans ( Vita Wilfridi , chs 7 , 10 ) . |
| 8 | It is arguable that here Anselm is not thinking of God in terms very different from those of Kant , the severest critic of his ‘ Ontological Argument ’ ( at least in the form in which it was mediated to him by Descartes ) . |
| 9 | Despite the earlier authors ' comments on the matter , at the moment of death the cat is not thinking of its human owners ' feelings , but simply about how it can protect itself from the terrifying , unseen danger that is causing it so much pain . |
| 10 | But it becomes clear that Krashen is not thinking of theory in general , that is to say of a theoretical perspective on pedagogy , but of a theory in particular which can be applied directly ; not , therefore , of the process of referring actual problems to abstract ideas but the process of making practice conform to a preconceived conceptual pattern . |
| 11 | This is not to say of course , that Christians might not have supported certain of these ideas : by choosing a particular profession of considerable sacrifice to themselves in economic terms , by supporting rent legislation because of the plight of deprived families , by welcoming the welfare state because of the inability of poor families to obtain appropriate medical treatment or by applauding deficit spending as a way of reducing unemployment . |
| 12 | This is not to deny of course that there were some who saw housing inequalities and poverty unescapably linked to underlying economic and class structures , but essentially nineteenth-century public regulation of the environment was a matter for the local amelioration of a particular problem . |
| 13 | The residual data is not deprived of meaning or access by partial corruption . |
| 14 | In these circumstances the creditor should be seeking to ensure that unfair advantage is not taken of the surety . |
| 15 | Because the social structure in the villages was one based on patriarchal families , where the daughter is invariably given away in marriage , and where , because a woman 's chief economic role is as a producer of labour power ( her sons ) she is not considered of any real economic value before she is married . |
| 16 | The company is not thought of as a good employer . |
| 17 | Where perhaps a defendant has been a passenger and is not accused of reckless driving . |
| 18 | Reform is popular with middle-class liberals , though Mr Smith personally is not persuaded of the case for it . |
| 19 | Consent is not required of the shareholders of any company which is a wholly owned subsidiary . |
| 20 | I mean , he is n't run of the mill , is he ? … and I thought any lady friend of his was bound to be unusual . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ So long as your prick is n't made of wood as well as ! ’ she had said with a laugh to make him feel easy . |
| 22 | But to be made to feel as if one 's made of wood by a man who obviously is n't made of wood is too much for any girl 's stomach . |
| 23 | Your baby is n't made of china , so she wo n't break ! |
| 24 | Growing up seeing nothing but these truly ghastly buildings , never using anything that is n't made of shoddy material , how could such children become people who would recognise and choose anything that 's beautiful ? |
| 25 | Writing , it 's true , is n't thought of as one of the problems of British cinema . |
| 26 | ‘ You can see , Miss Cathy , that he is n't dying of love for you ! |
| 27 | Then she added in a confiding tone : ‘ Of course , she was not much with her husband really — and I think that helps — she is n't reminded of him at every turn , like an ordinary widow would be . ’ |