Example sentences of "[vb past] not of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the fires were bonfires and the bells told not of danger but of joy . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In doing so I did not of course mean to deny that sometimes immoral or unjust laws are not authoritatively binding . |
| 9 | Research did not of course point only in one direction as far as service innovations were concerned . |
| 10 | Adam Verne-Smith , unwinding in Puerto de la Cruz , did not of course see it . |
| 11 | It did not of course necessarily destroy the monarch 's power of choice . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | Popular movements did not of course remain outside the influence of market forces . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It did not of course reach the bowl of scummy water , dirty plastic debris and filthy rags and bits of wood on the balcony . |
| 19 | A change of citizenship did not of course imply a divorce from the old country . |
| 20 | Many guests indeed complained not of ennui but of exhaustion brought on by accompanying Eugénie while she scampered up and down rocks , or by long walks and excursions in the area around the palace which took place most days after lunch . |
| 21 | To the visible delight of Tory rightwingers , those who refused to vote for Mrs T are loudly accusing those who did n't of cowardice , or sycophancy , or both . |
| 22 | She did n't of course . |
| 23 | They did n't of course . |
| 24 | He did n't of course , she won . |
| 25 | Reproductive success , we now know , and Darwin did n't of course , means passing on your genes . |
| 26 | What we 've come forward now is , through is a series of proposals , now these would apply to all , all of these , there was some concern at the meeting that we did n't of them , which appeared to have no , no chance at all as I told you , so all of these issues would actually apply to all of them , but the kind of things that are talked about , is trying to get a , a standard of systems throughout Shropshire so we need the importance of the way they , they sell a fruit shop within , within a , a rural are a rural village . |
| 27 | Oh you did n't of it Grace . |
| 28 | We did n't of this one . |
| 29 | These had been her favourites when she was little but had not of ten been allowed because the sauce oozed out the sides and made a mess of your clothes . |
| 30 | This girl had not of course been told of the scandal of the boss 's daughter , and she willingly went to the tall cabinet , found the card , read it to Alice who memorised it and ran out . |