Example sentences of "but of [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But of a coalition of all progressive forces within spitting distance of ushering in the new millennium there is no sign . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | Pupils with less severe hearing impairments may also need modifications to the requirements , but of a less far-reaching nature . |
| 37 | 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 . ’ |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | To the Christian the natural world is not the result of some accident or chance event but of a deliberate act of creation . |
| 40 | He said : ‘ What we have seen is the devaluation not just of a currency but of a Prime Minister and an entire Government . |
| 41 | In the much more complicated case of the Celebes we can only indicate their general nature , since we now see the result not of any single or recent change , but of a whole series of the later revolutions which have resulted in the present distribution of land in the Eastern Hemisphere . ’ |
| 42 | But , for Canterbury , it made possible the appointment of a new prior , and Anselm appointed Ernulf , who was one of Lanfranc 's men , but of a very different stamp from his predecessor . |
| 43 | In an interview with The Art Newspaper published in May 1991 ( no.8 , p.6 ) Korolev explained : ‘ I anticipate that we must play an active role in the international art market ; it is not a question of looting the country , but of a normal integration into the world-wide process of cultural development ’ . |
| 44 | The power of this move lies in the implication that a ‘ mechanism ’ is not a feature of a subject , but of a structure . |
| 45 | Finally , dominion over Eastern Europe enthrones the USSR on the world stage as an equal of the United States : as a custodian not only of a set of national interests , but of a ‘ world socialist system ’ entitled to equal representation in world councils . |
| 46 | It is not simply a question of availability of space , but of a belief that , as one mother put it , ‘ I like to wake up in the night and see all my family around me . ’ |
| 47 | It means that Paul VI saw himself as the true heir of Pope John — but of a very different Pope John from the version usually presented to the public . |
| 48 | Radcliffe-Brown was also a functionalist but of a less programmatic sort ; he developed a more sophisticated terminology and theoretical approach , and in many respects improved on Durkheim . |
| 49 | She has sold extensively through him over the years , and the appearance of her pictures at this ambitious Italian gallery is not a sign of a rift between the two , but of a desire to give the works wider exposure to the market . |
| 50 | Ivory tower allergists discount reactions to food unless an IgE mechanism has been proved , but denying them or attributing them to hypochondriasis is a sign not of scientific superiority but of a head in the sand mentality . |
| 51 | This is not therefore the work of an out-and-out Comtean positivist , but of a man who had some sensitivity to the nuances of primitive worldviews , as he did for the problems of children and of his patients . |
| 52 | Not to be outdone by the Rossinians and the Mozartians , or the Vienna and New York Philharmonics , Houston this year celebrates the twentieth anniversary not of a birth or death or a founding , but of a hiring , that of David Gockley as General Director of the Houston Grand Opera . |
| 53 | Embarrassment , she thought , was fear but of a very reduced kind , just as they say an itch is pain to a very mild degree . |
| 54 | This knowledge is not a matter of personal belief , but of a simple historical fact . |
| 55 | Even more notably it was the speech , not of a subordinate minister , but of a leader , striking a new note , and invoking an enthusiastic response from a broad segment of the electorate . |
| 56 | This time it was not a question of skirmishing along the border , but of a major re-occupation of territory lost since 1183 . |
| 57 | The eighteenth century was not a period of gradual progress towards democracy in Britain , as Whig historians have tried to suggest , but of a determined retreat from it . |
| 58 | In classical political thinking , " democracy " was the name not merely of a form of government but of a whole society , and it was habitually associated , by its enemies and critics as well as its friends , with the principle of social equality . |
| 59 | What I liked about it was that though it was biting sarcasm , the way he spoke it gave you the impression not of a man who was bitter in any way , but of a man who pitied the members of the government for being so rotten and pitied us for being governed by such scum . |
| 60 | Three years after the Hague summit the Community seemed on the brink , not merely of a major enlargement , but of a leap towards full economic union . |