Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] not of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Popular movements did not of course remain outside the influence of market forces . |
| 2 | British concerns do not of course merely consist of such generalities . |
| 3 | Robert Kerr caused outrage in the mid-1860s by suggesting that the doctrine of three bedrooms ( stipulated in the 1840s when the blue books revealed a high incidence of incest ) should be abandoned ; but , though the moral problems did not of course vanish , his view came to be increasingly shared . |
| 4 | Great houses did not of course cease to be built ; on the contrary , almost as many were erected in the nineteenth century as a whole as in the three centuries that preceded it put together . |
| 5 | The Conservative government has not of course been passive in the process of restructuring the social bases of electoral choice . |