Example sentences of "but of an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clue to that , I suspect , lies in Heseltine 's increasing adoption not only of a Churchillian warning stance but of an almost Churchillian speaking style as well . |
| 2 | MILES DAVIS , the late Gil Evans said , was blessed with a sensitivity to his ‘ complete surroundings ’ -not simply an awareness of what notes worked with what chord , what accents with what rhythm , but of an atmosphere and resonance about the sounds around him that go beyond their formal construction . |
| 3 | What this debate about conviction highlights is the continuing absence in the new Labour Party not of sensible policies but of an enveloping conviction that can be easily summarised , passionately preached , readily understood . |
| 4 | Regressive rock 's meaning is diminished because hardly anyone at all is into it ; the scene is claustrophobically LOCAL a parochial huddle — its problem is not one of dehumanized distance but of an overdose of intimacy . |
| 5 | AN Englishwoman who went to Canada in search of the son she believes could have been murdered has been told that a body recovered from a lake at the weekend was not that of her son , but of an older man . |
| 6 | From afar the appearance is one , not of a medieval fortress , but of an elegant , welcoming 18C palace , created when Maria Theresa commissioned her architect Nicolo Pacassi to regulate the conglomeration of medieval and Renaissance buildings that had accrued since the 9C . |
| 7 | There seems to be no particular difficulty with exigo , unless it is that it takes the form not of a request ( like the wordings in Gaius ) but of an instruction . |
| 8 | Attendance is slightly encouraged by the payment not of a salary but of an allowance for attendance . |
| 9 | We are in the presence here , not of art or science , but of an ideology , harsh as any revealed creed , and the more damaging to the world for being unable to name itself . |
| 10 | It was enough to get the shop moving and this time they offered Lawrence a replacement — but of an inferior model . |
| 11 | But it is dangerous insofar as the ideology may become a substitute for the tradition — the servant become the master — because politics involves ‘ the pursuit , not of a dream , or of a general principle , but of an intimation ’ . |
| 12 | Cole ( 1978 ) , in contrast , prefers to see the emergence of permanent employment in terms not so much of a living tradition but of an institutional legacy which organizational innovators were able to draw on . |
| 13 | The picture which emerges from research , from that of Dorothy Wedderburn in the 1960s to that of Sara Arber and her colleagues in the 1980s , on the relationship between pensioners and younger relatives , friends and neighbours , is not one of simple dependency of the old upon the young , but of an exchange relationship to which both sides contribute which shifts only gradually over time towards the younger participants being the predominant givers ( Cole and Utting , 1962 ; Gilbert et al. , 1989 ; Evandrou et al. , 1986 ) providing a significant volume of services which would otherwise be a costly burden on the state . |
| 14 | Wales was conquered and subjected in the middle ages , Scotland 's parliament and administration were absorbed in 1707 , Ireland lost all but local administration in 1801 and the British upper classes reacted in horror at the prospect not of Irish independence but of an element of internal self-government when it was proposed by Gladstone in 1886 . |
| 15 | In this image Nizan evokes the plight not merely of one individual , but of an entire class . |
| 16 | A Whig in Parliament , but of an independent disposition , he spoke only occasionally during debates on national affairs , but actively promoted local causes on behalf of his Cumbrian constituents . |