Example sentences of "were [not/n't] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | To remind them that their rule was derived from God himself , and that they were neither creators nor rulers by right , God forbade them only one thing : they were not to partake of the knowledge of good and evil ; such a mysterious gnosis belonged to God alone . |
| 2 | were not convicted of a ‘ bail ’ offence . |
| 3 | They were not forewarned of the final paragraph , added by a Vatican envoy : ‘ There is no way the Bishops could want to be disrespectful to His Excellency the Life President of the Republic , whom they hold in high esteem . ’ |
| 4 | As it seemed , if she were not to die of her love she had to poison it ; and even , over its death agonies , to exult . |
| 5 | Nor are evolutionary processes progressive or purposive ; the primitive single-celled creatures which were our early forebears were not possessed of a burning imperative , or driven by a mystic higher force , to evolve into sentient humans . |
| 6 | Finally , Nuadu had found his way to the strange twilight community of the Wolfwood ; the place that gave shelter to the half-breeds : the bastard sons of Royal Houses , the creatures who were not possessed of sufficient Beastblood to be acknowledged at Tara , but yet were not entirely Human . |
| 7 | Southend 1 Ipswich 2 IPSWICH 'S inexorable progress towards the Premier League continues although they were not assured of their third successive victory until a minute before full-time . |
| 8 | In the eleventh chapter of Hebrews , that great chapter which deals with ‘ the nature and fruits of faith ’ as it is headed in the ‘ Thompson Chain Reference ’ bible , the third verse reads as follows - ‘ Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God , so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear . ’ |
| 9 | What Wood points out is that , if the system were not made of complementary modules but was redundantly organized with function distributed across all components , there are some conditions under which double dissociations would still arise . |
| 10 | The most amusing of these is the suggestion that pikemen worse short buff-coats made from imported buffalo leather from America , while in fact pikemen did not wear buff-coats , and the buff-coats which were worn by cavalry troopers were not made of American buffalo leather but local oxhide . |
| 11 | Or if a jeweller said , you know , the rings in my window are made of gold when really they were not made of gold at all , then that would be a false trade description . |
| 12 | We suspected they were not made of sheepskin at all er and we took some of them away and analyzed them to find out what exactly are they made of . |
| 13 | Fenella saw , with a thrill of horror , that as his hand went through the colours , the robes shivered as if they were not made of plain cloth , but of some living , breathing substance . |
| 14 | She 'd always envied Mandy her wonderful looks and her voluptuous compact figure , but she had long ago accepted the fact that she and Mandy were not made of the same stuff . |
| 15 | But they were not deprived of children . |
| 16 | Signs were not lacking of my probable destiny . |
| 17 | And , for the first time , the full annual report offered the financially more sophisticated a wide-ranging analysis of results ( given separately for the society and the group ) and business activities that were not required of other institutions . |
| 18 | We were not notified of your sister 's death . |
| 19 | The elections were held against the background of the serious and savage autumn harvest uprisings in October 1946 and were characterised by various grave deficiencies : some electors were not notified of the election , votes were cast by others in the names of genuine electors . |
| 20 | They were not told of the grounds for referral , and the case proceeded without them . |
| 21 | Investors were not told of these connections before they purchased the shares . |
| 22 | In one study , the essence of secretions from a female 's armpit were smeared onto the upper lips of other females who , perhaps fortunately , were not told of the origin of the smears . |
| 23 | Again , her family were not told of the seriousness of the condition until a month later and just days defore she died . |
| 24 | From an argument based on such negative evidence it may be that as a hunting weapon they were more common than the record suggests , having such a high use-value that they were not disposed of at burial ; if accepted this would also say something of the use-value of weaponry . |
| 25 | His poem ‘ Maud ’ is said to be about her and reveals how his advances , as the son of a country parson , were not approved of by her guardians . |
| 26 | The details of his three years ' captivity from the North African desert to the Eastern Front were not spoken of for more than another thirty , other than by occasional scant reference . |
| 27 | They were not to learn of the German reaction for some nine months , when the commandos again visited the Lofoten Islands , but the world heard for the first time of British commandos that night in German broadcasts : ‘ Light naval forces destroyed several fishing boats and landed commandos in the Norwegian skerries where they took prisoner some Germans and Norwegians . ’ |
| 28 | We were not starved of new westerns in that era when great old stars were playing aged gunfighters and movie squabbled with movie on the ideological terrain laid out by the war in Vietnam . |
| 29 | Hickson and Jacques severed direct contact with each other ; Shearman and Pateman had a major disagreement over a question of loyalty to the WEA , and the two new university resident tutors were not informed of the proposed developments nor invited to comment on the proposals which might affect Essex and Norfolk . |
| 30 | Eloff and SARB 's conservative Executive Committee were not informed of what was afoot , and , when it came to light , the existing animosity intensified . |