Example sentences of "but not of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This could be said with some emphasis of Chatterton , but not of Eliot himself , who moreover survived , who grew to be famous , who did not kill himself , though he was to wonder how one might set about dying . |
| 2 | Born to the pack , but not of it . |
| 3 | For a time teachers of literature could assume that they were in but not of the academy , and keep a healthy distance from institutional pressures . |
| 4 | In this sense this imposed consciousness is a false consciousness for those who are dominated , since it serves the purposes of the superiors but not of the inferiors . |
| 5 | There are no weekends , every day is a potential workday … rains may interrupt the activities of the men … but not of the women . |
| 6 | ‘ English ’ prayers were seen by these Asian children ( mainly Sikhs and Hindus ) as innocuous , even in some cases enjoyable , but not of any emotional significance . |
| 7 | It is a system where a reasonably educated person would have heard of Homer but never of Kalidas , of Ibsen but rarely of Tagore , of Joan of Arc but not of the Rani of Jhansi ( another woman who took arms to try to drive the British out of her country ) , of Goethe but not of his contemporary the great Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib . |
| 8 | It is a system where a reasonably educated person would have heard of Homer but never of Kalidas , of Ibsen but rarely of Tagore , of Joan of Arc but not of the Rani of Jhansi ( another woman who took arms to try to drive the British out of her country ) , of Goethe but not of his contemporary the great Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib . |
| 9 | But not of his own volition . |
| 10 | But not of his own volition . |
| 11 | This is a person who sees nothing to recommend the Duomo at Siena ( ‘ it seems to have been got by outlining ’ ) , nor Sienese painting in general : ‘ evidence of love ; but not of art … |
| 12 | France is a member of the WEU but not of NATO 's military organisation . |
| 13 | A , who has an interest in property held by B upon trust for him , may hold that interest upon trust for D , or transfer it to C upon trust for D. ) If , however , an attempt is made to create a trust by transfer to a trustee , but the transfer itself fails from a defect in form — where land , for instance , is transferred by unsealed writing , or the transfer of shares in a company has not obtained some necessary consent of the Treasury — the trust also will fall , unless the transaction is one made for value , a term which includes settlements or agreements for settlement in consideration of a contemplated marriage , but not of one already celebrated . |
| 14 | In Uncle Walter 's house there were photos of Uncle John but not of Uncle Walter . |
| 15 | At the Communist world conference in 1957 held in post-Sputnik euphoria , Mao Tse-tung declared that the East wind was prevailing over the West wind and that nuclear war would mean the end of capitalism but not of communism : if 300 million Chinese were killed , there would still be 300 million left alive . |
| 16 | Would this mean , then , that the government would accept curbs on nitrates in the rivers of Kent but not of Wales ? |
| 17 | LEA-appointed members may outnumber by one the other members ( persons with experience in education or knowledge of local educational conditions , or parents of pupils — but not of pupils at the school which is the subject of the appeal ) . |
| 18 | Van Kol 's resolution won a majority of the committee , but not of the Congress . |
| 19 | An implication of differentiation theory but not of the associative theory , therefore , is that mere exposure to a pair of stimuli without their being followed by any special consequences should be enough to enhance their discriminability . |
| 20 | This is true of some of the younger Italian writers too , but not of all : Andrea De Carlo , for example , puts much more ‘ personality ’ into his observing heroes and heroines than the nouveaux romanciers ever did , but it is a very different personality from that of Palomar . |
| 21 | It can be a valuable indicator of stability , but not of instability . |
| 22 | One Cabinet minister , a member of the Economic Strategy Committee but not of this most secret inner group , which was meeting straight afterwards , was a bit slow to gather his papers . |
| 23 | To ask a child to get dressed is a reasonable requirement of a seven-year-old but not of a two-year-old . |
| 24 | The official ‘ tests ’ were seen as important from the point of view of accountability , but not of teaching . |
| 25 | bone breakage in prey assemblages is also diagnostic of certain predators but not of others ; |
| 26 | The project scientist who sent me the disappointed and sceptical account of all this said that there were shrieks from the store room , but not of success . |
| 27 | He did admit , however , that the growth itself had induced ‘ peculiar crises ’ , but not of the same character as those observed in the capitalist economies . |
| 28 | These proposals are helpful , but not of profound significance . |
| 29 | After four months Alderman Joshua Smith , president of Southwark Borough Council , secured her release from prison — but not of course from the rest of her debts . |
| 30 | This will bring Koi to the surface , enabling you to give them a visual health check ( but not of the underside where ulcers may occur ) . |