Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] of a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is not so of a different kind of pride , which is currently thwarting the pursuit of those very goals . |
| 2 | It is about gaining an understanding , not only of a specific project , but about the way your company works . |
| 3 | In these circumstances , it is the preservation not only of a great house that is assured , but also of the surrounding area of countryside . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Women have difficulty obtaining paid employment , not only of a high level of skill and wages , but of any sort at all . |
| 6 | These involve awareness not only of a narrative point of time , but of circumstances which , in relation to that point , are past , future , or hypothetical . |
| 7 | But attempts to encourage family planning encounter obstacles not only of an economic nature but also of a religious , cultural , and possibly also political nature . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If more education raises the productivity not merely of an individual worker but of all other workers with whom this worker co-operates , there is a production externality that the individual does not take into account in choosing how much education to purchase . |
| 11 | The predictable ineffectiveness of the nationalist vote in Northern Ireland can be used to justify rejection not just of a particular government but of the whole constitutional structure which maintains the inclusion of Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom rather than in a new all-Ireland state . |
| 12 | She was not normally of an argumentative disposition , finding it essential to have the last word , but now she felt it distinctly necessary to score points . |
| 13 | On the other hand numerous studies have shown that clay from one locality , if not always of a single composition , has at least a reasonably uniform and limited compositional range , whereas clays from different locations ( towns , countries , continents ) have different chemical compositions because they reflect differences in the underlying geology . |
| 14 | Opponents of the creation of a European currency union , to be found mainly in the UK , have directed a variety of criticisms , not always of an economic nature , against the EC decision to proceed with the implementation of the principal proposals of the Delors Plan . |
| 15 | If Soviet equipment is not always of an adequate standard , Western equipment is often over-sophisticated for Soviet purposes , demanding much by way of supporting technologies which in the USSR simply do not exist . |
| 16 | Four out of 10 shoppers believe that supermarkets selling " environment-friendly " products do so to exploit the market and not out of a genuine concern to protect the earth , according to Mintel. 10 per cent of respondents in the Mintel survey believed that companies were hiding behind a green " front " , and those who went out of their way to buy green products did so " in spite of corporate public relations efforts " . |
| 17 | The function of the leave requirement is not spelled out in Order 53 , but it is designed to weed out cases which have no real chance of success or which might be called ‘ frivolous ’ or ‘ vexatious ’ in the sense of being brought not out of a genuine interest in the outcome but for some ulterior motive such as to make things difficult for a government agency . |
| 18 | He made films like Sanders of the River ( 1935 ) and The Four Feathers ( 1939 ) , featuring courageous British aristocrats going off to fight for the British empire , not out of a sentimental admiration for those times , but because the Empire provided good stories , as Hollywood also found at the time . |
| 19 | My hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool , West Derby was right to say that we are witnessing the creation not simply of a free market in Europe , but a free market which is linked to the Delors principles and will ensure proper working conditions and adequate social provision . |
| 20 | Robbie was n't normally of a nervous disposition , but one did hear such horrific stories of lone women being attacked in out of the way spots . |