Example sentences of "but of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This then becomes not a description of the object itself , but of the critical appreciation or dislike that the work gives rise to . |
| 2 | Then you are saddened on behalf of the citizens , not just of the World , but of the Galaxy . |
| 3 | I am not myself an advocate of the Friedmanite arithmetical standard for money , but of the older and stronger rule of gold convertibility , the gold standard . |
| 4 | Dagenham 's problems need to be viewed not just in the context of Ford but of the European motor industry as a whole . |
| 5 | This is not only a matter of familiarity but of the connected conditions of relaxation and self-confidence . |
| 6 | There has been a welcome pile of new recordings issued recently ; not just of the symphonies , but of the concertos and chamber music as well . |
| 7 | This is an example of what Cain ( 1973 ) calls the ‘ instructional attitude ’ which senior constables adopt in relation to probationers , passing on not just a knowledge of law but of the situations in which to apply it . |
| 8 | This was claimed to be the work not of the IRA proper , but of the Irish National Liberation Army , an offshoot of it . |
| 9 | He would talk not only of their vocation to the ministry but of the books which they were reading and the circumstances of their family . |
| 10 | Thereby , in the eyes not only of the United Kingdom but of the world , each of these territories became a sovereign independent state , alias a nation . |
| 11 | And Sir Richard Attenborough was there to tell his audience that he felt as if he had come not just to the centre of Europe but of the world . |
| 12 | But of the man , scarcely a trace . |
| 13 | THE MOST interesting reaction to the Labour Party 's abandonment of the closed shop is not that of the Left or the unions but of the Conservatives . |
| 14 | Another , who did not pass by on the hour , might think , not of Death , but of the astrolabe showing the positions of the planets . |
| 15 | A statute called Quia Emptores ( 1290 ) had enacted that whenever a tenant alienated his land for an estate in fee simple , the alienee should hold , not of the alienor , but of the alienor 's lord . |
| 16 | According to this view , the woman who agrees to have sex with D only when he promises to marry her ( never intending to keep this promise ) — and because he has promised to marry her — is a victim not of rape but of the lesser offence of procuring sexual intercourse by false representations . |
| 17 | The figures are inevitably distorted by the fact that several of the great old grammar schools opted to join the private sector after the Labour governments ' reform of secondary education in the 1970s , but of the twenty-two schools attended by Cabinet ministers , eighteen belonged to the 1990 Headmasters ' Conference . |
| 18 | In the end , the radical change of direction which the country took under Mrs Thatcher was the result not merely of the party donning a new suit of clothes but of the electorate despairing at the failure of thirty years of consensus politics to do anything to arrest the inexorable process of national decline . |
| 19 | The man appointed chairman of the BBC by Mrs Thatcher in 1986 , Marmaduke Hussey , was a businessman , it was true , but of the most patrician style , and his wife , Lady Susan , as mentioned before , was a lady-in-waiting to the Queen . |
| 20 | Anyone with ears to hear must have noted Hitler 's words , that ‘ we had no idea , how gigantic the preparations of this enemy were against Germany and Europe , and how immensely great the danger was , how narrowly we have avoided this time the destruction not only of Germany , but of the whole of Europe ’ . |
| 21 | The high number of joyful expressions about the salvation of the Führer , which is emphasized as a true stroke of fortune for the German people , is not only proof of the devotion and loyalty of the soldiers to the Führer , but of the firm determination of the soldiers to fight and conquer for him , which is also brought out in the letters … |
| 22 | In this instance the objective is not just a winning result ; it is also to leave the volunteer workers with an awareness not only of their importance , but of the value of the contribution they have made and how much they are appreciated by the ‘ roadies ’ and the candidates passing through . |
| 23 | But of the policies themselves — in other words , of the ‘ affairs ’ — he remembered almost nothing . |
| 24 | One of them was named Galway Bay , but of the bay itself , famous in song , I could see no sign . |
| 25 | But , you see , we have the resources to create an image not just of the conductor or the orchestra but of the whole ensemble of the music and the performers . |
| 26 | And it became the best selling single of not only the year but of the decade in Australia . |
| 27 | One of the many boasts made by the Free Church Council 's driving force , Hughes , was that the Free Church Council was the real representative in England not only of undiluted Protestantism but of the de facto Church of the English-speaking world . |
| 28 | The downtown antique shops which clustered in the streets off the Marktplatz sold the bric-a-brac , not of the nineteenth but of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries . |
| 29 | The scents from the sodden earth filled her with an intolerable weight of memory ; not that of individual occasions but of the entire past . |
| 30 | The swan-white robes were not the possessions of single families but of the community , and every mother whose infant wore a robe made and sewed a tiny bow to the back of the garment , so that it might be recorded how many infants had been christened in it . |