Example sentences of "but of a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inevitably , the impression is not of unified excellence , but of a sort of march-past of British theatrical talent . |
| 2 | Often the men marry girls not only younger but of a higher social class than their own in Sylhet . |
| 3 | Both events led to controversy : fingerprints found at the assassination site were not , as claimed , those of an IRA suspect but of a detective ; Herrema 's release after a lengthy siege followed an agreement with his kidnappers , signed by Garvey but repudiated by the gardai . |
| 4 | India , which prided itself on the self-sufficiency achieved by its green revolution , was obliged to buy wheat in 1988–9 ; China 's imports of wheat reached record levels in the last years of the decade , a reflection , no doubt , not just of two years of drought but of a situation where peasants received certificates instead of cash for their crops . |
| 5 | It was useless for me to point out that the proposals were not those of the Government but of a group of advisers whose only power was to suggest . |
| 6 | It was only about a thousand words long but of a high quality . |
| 7 | But the memory of Bregawn should not be of a recalcitrant mule goaded into action as the rest of the field leaves him way behind , but of a good Cheltenham Gold Cup winner storming up the hill to head the procession of Dickinson horses which was the most remarkable training feat of modern times . |
| 8 | They were policy , but of a highly odd and experimental kind . |
| 9 | The fact that Karajan was a man of considerable good humour , with a fund of musical anecdotes and a talent for musical mimicry , does not obscure the existence of that more private self that Steiner claims to have glimpsed and which was also evident in Karajan 's long-standing preoccupation with skiing , flying , and sailing , activities not of some rich playboy , but of a person who since childhood had been uneasy with gregariousness and the urban life . |
| 10 | And truly it was no longer , as I had once thought , a matter of a star courting success by adopting the affectations of a prima donna , but of a man who has given himself up to a trance . |
| 11 | As with mangrove forests , they do not consist of a single species that happens to have exploited a particular niche , but of a whole group of species , not necessarily related to each other , each of which is adapted to the rich pickings . |
| 12 | Her hands were cupped before him in a stylised gesture which he recognised not as that of a beggar but of a supplicant , a penitent , someone reaching out for a blessing from God . |
| 13 | Whatever the outcome of the Higginson Committee 's inquiry may be , if we are to see a radical improvement in secondary education , we must learn to think not merely of a new form of examination ( and therefore presumably a novel kind of syllabus that will lead to it ) but of a wholly new approach to those studies that we wish to retain in the sixth forms at school , and how these studies are to relate to the pupils ' next step , when they leave school . |
| 14 | Whether the action was heard by a consul or by one of the praetores fideicommissarii , in either case it was not an action of the formulary system but of a kind which lay beyond that system ; the involvement of magistrates in assessing the cases was therefore known as cognitio extra ordinem . |
| 15 | A LC TV picture is made up , not of scan lines as on present TV pictures , but of a large number of picture elements or pixels . |
| 16 | The South is talking not of aid and advice , but of a new economic order , with just and equal sharing in trade , finance and technology . |
| 17 | In part this was due to the recent unification of the kingdom ; he and his successors were felt to be kings not of one but of a group of kingdoms . |
| 18 | A number of shops and boutiques had shown an interest in her clothes but she still had to produce them , innovative yet saleable , not too expensive for the market but of a good quality . |
| 19 | A good churchman , he is a Church Warden — but of a church that ceased to exist in the late 18th century . |
| 20 | Certainly they need conviction too , but of a different kind . |
| 21 | Ultrasonic waves are sound waves but of a higher frequency ( pitch ) than the human ear can hear . |
| 22 | But of a coalition of all progressive forces within spitting distance of ushering in the new millennium there is no sign . |
| 23 | Labour offered a deeply dependent and conservative culture , one that derives from acceptance of the unalterable laws , not of the universe , but of a market economy . |
| 24 | Far from voting for ungovernability , the French , Italians , and Germans have voted very clearly for government , but of a different kind from that on offer since 1945 . |
| 25 | At the same time that this mischief is done , the wood itself is ( timber excepted ) but of a miserable account , as any one may suppose , when he is informed , that these shaws have a fence only on one side , and consequently are exposed to be eaten by the cattle that graze in the fields ; hence there is an imperfect system of wood , an injured one of corn , and wretched fences ; by aiming at too much , nothing arrives at perfection . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Pupils with less severe hearing impairments may also need modifications to the requirements , but of a less far-reaching nature . |
| 28 | Nash , a scrupulous and sensitive antiquarian , tells us what happened next : ‘ The body , I believe , is perfect , as it has never been opened : we thought it indelicate and indecent to uncover it ; but observing the left hand to lie at a small distance from the body , we took off the cerecloth , and found the hand and nails perfect , but of a brownish colour : the cerecloth consisted of many folds of coarse linen , dipped in wax , tar , and perhaps some gums : over this was wrapt a sheet of lead fitted exactly close to the body . ’ |
| 29 | Some workmen digging a grave inside the parish church uncovered a lead anthropoid coffin inside of which was the body of a lad ‘ … laying in a liquor , or pickle , somewhat resembling mushroom catchup , but of a paler complexion , and somewhat thicker in consistance ’ , according to Dr T. White of Colchester who , together with Dr Gower of Chelmsford , had been invited by the rector , the Revd de l'Angle , and the churchwarden , Lewis Disney Ffytche of Danbury Place , to examine the coffin . |
| 30 | To the Christian the natural world is not the result of some accident or chance event but of a deliberate act of creation . |