Example sentences of "[verb] not of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Conservative government has not of course been passive in the process of restructuring the social bases of electoral choice . |
| 2 | In effect it is conceded that society was in a state of flux , consisting not of four but of five estates , subject nevertheless to fundamental reservations , for the labouring poor are not adjudged worthy of an independent voice . |
| 3 | His voice was pure seduction , drawing her deeper and deeper into the spell of passion , and she shook her head with a desperation born of fear — fear not of him but of what she would do if he continued this heady , drugging assault on her senses . |
| 4 | There is a tendency , I I hope not of er this management team but there is a tendency of some people who who might be employed in future to feel that solutions can be obtained by purchasing and I 'm not always convinced that that is the case . |
| 5 | But the fires were bonfires and the bells told not of danger but of joy . |
| 6 | A number of seminal Essene and/or Zadokite texts speak not of one expected Messiah , but of two . |
| 7 | The number systems we use as yardsticks should be thought of as being made not of wood but of elastic which can be stretched or shrunk to our convenience . |
| 8 | President Cerezo is accused not of murder but of neglect . |
| 9 | His self defence , and I now read from actually only a paragraph or so earlier than my opening passage , his self defence in the reason of Church government is quite interesting erm ‘ If I hunted after praise by the ostentation of wit and learning , I should not write thus out of mine own season , when I have neither yet completed to my mind the full circle of my private studies , although I complain not of any insufficiency to the matter in hand , or were I ready to my wishes it were a folly to commit anything elaborately composed to the careless and interrupted listening of these tumultuous times . |
| 10 | The strategy consisted not of ministerial diktat but the progressive application of pressure on LEAs to ensure that the school curriculum in their areas was in line with a real or imagined consensus about what pupils should learn at school . |
| 11 | they consisted not of generalities but of specific commands for specific situations : worship , work , home life , marriage , respect for life and property , elementary justice and the personal realm of the will . |
| 12 | However , the breach of contract by the sellers consisted not of feeding mouldy pig nuts to the buyers ' pigs , but of supplying an unventilated hopper . |
| 13 | And that was , children born not of natural descent nor of human decision , or a husband . |
| 14 | The breach of duty consists not of allowing the conflict of interest to arise because that is often outside the control of the director , but of the director 's preferring his own personal interests to those of persons for whom he acts as fiduciary , or of taking advantage of such a position . |
| 15 | They talk not of rural matters ( except of the possibilities of old barn conversions ) , but of stocks , shares , investments , and insurance . |
| 16 | At Monklands East , John Smith 's Edinburgh constituency , the shadow chancellor has been re-elected , but everything about his body language speaks not of jubilation but an understated sense of acceptance . |
| 17 | In referring to the Queen as prosecutor in the course of a case one speaks not of ‘ the Queen ’ but ‘ the Crown . ’ |
| 18 | I had such queer desires to speak to her , to give her my flowers , to kiss her hand , but did not of course , partly from cowardice , partly because she , however innocent , would probably be afraid ; and the old man was there , too . |
| 19 | It soon became apparent that he had not only failed to read the book but had not even succeeded in struggling to the end of the blurb , though this did not of course stop him talking at length . |
| 20 | These are three simple and fairly obvious examples of protective devices with a topic that did not of itself require careful handling , but when at the end of the lesson they chose to extend their interest in hospitals in the future to ‘ finding a cure for cancer ’ quite suddenly the subject-matter has become more of a delicate one , with some taboos attached for both the pupils and the adults watching the lesson . |
| 21 | In doing so I did not of course mean to deny that sometimes immoral or unjust laws are not authoritatively binding . |
| 22 | Research did not of course point only in one direction as far as service innovations were concerned . |
| 23 | Adam Verne-Smith , unwinding in Puerto de la Cruz , did not of course see it . |
| 24 | It did not of course necessarily destroy the monarch 's power of choice . |
| 25 | Great houses did not of course cease to be built ; on the contrary , almost as many were erected in the nineteenth century as a whole as in the three centuries that preceded it put together . |
| 26 | Robert Kerr caused outrage in the mid-1860s by suggesting that the doctrine of three bedrooms ( stipulated in the 1840s when the blue books revealed a high incidence of incest ) should be abandoned ; but , though the moral problems did not of course vanish , his view came to be increasingly shared . |
| 27 | Treaty did not of itself prevent a member state from imposing an ownership residence requirement as a condition for exemption from the compulsory acquisition of land , could not be followed in the present case for three reasons : ( a ) in the Fearon case , the owners ' residence requirement was not coupled with any nationality requirement and the court indicated in paragraph 10 of the judgment , at pp. 3685–3686 , that its decision would have been different if it had been ; ( b ) in the Fearon case , the residence requirement was limited to legal owners of the land and did not extend to peripheral persons , such as those who had lent the owners money in order to buy the land ; and ( c ) from the point of view of its geographical scope , the residence requirement at issue in the Fearon case was framed in local rather than national terms . |
| 28 | Held , allowing the appeal , that although ‘ action ’ in section 69 of the Solicitors Act 1974 was to be construed liberally it could extend only to forms of legal process and did not embrace a statutory demand , the service of which was merely part of the statutorily prescribed procedure for obtaining remedies afforded to creditors by a bankruptcy order and did not of itself initiate legal proceedings ; that a solicitor was therefore not debarred by section 69(1) from serving a statutory demand for payment of his costs before the expiration of one month from the date of delivery of his bill of costs ; and that , accordingly , since the statutory demand and petition were valid , they would be remitted to the district judge for hearing ( post , pp. 1029E–F , G — 1030A , 1031E ) . |
| 29 | Popular movements did not of course remain outside the influence of market forces . |
| 30 | It did not of course escape Mommsen that there can hardly be a more foolish political speculation , " eine thorichtere politische Spekulation " , than to represent the Roman constitution as a mixed constitution and to derive from it the success of Rome ( Rom . |