Example sentences of "not the [noun] of [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he maintained that was not the purpose of the composite he moved on behalf of the Tottenham constituency party . |
| 2 | That is not the purpose of the legislation . |
| 3 | It was not the purpose of the meetings to produce or agree upon policy proposals ; nor was there any attempt to do so . |
| 4 | The subskills themselves are not the purpose of the activity , but they must be developed to serve the needs of the higher-level complex activity . |
| 5 | Paragraph B suggests that er we 're dealing with a report which proports to address er community leadership and representation that 's not the purpose of the report . |
| 6 | For too long I thought this type of training was not the responsibility of the vet . |
| 7 | Phrases like ‘ unauthorized purchase — not the responsibility of the company ’ rumbled around the room . |
| 8 | No distinction will be made between the two funds involved even though one of them was not the responsibility of the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 9 | It was not the thought of a fall that worried her . |
| 10 | But ‘ goodness of fit ’ is not the whole of the art of curve fitting — users are encouraged to step through other equation fits , viewing the data and residuals plots as well as the data tables , and all are very conveniently accomplished . |
| 11 | The attention of people in Britain was focused on the area where Marlborough was campaigning , particularly because this was the area of the greatest military and financial commitment , but this was not the whole of the struggle . |
| 12 | It has proved extremely difficult , too , to find significant changes in attitudes in many markets except over a rather long period — which does not disprove the theory , but suggests either that advertising does not work very fast , which no one wishes to admit , or that attitudes are not the whole of the story . |
| 13 | Legal rules are not the whole of the instructions — departmental policy guidelines , for example , play a large part — but legal rules are of considerable importance because they are binding and authoritative . |
| 14 | Yes , I mean it 's not the whole of the market , admittedly , and we are still encouraging our own countrymen to take a holiday in this country erm but if one 's blunt about it , yes , it 's erm a large sector of the market and one that is , one we 've got to get back to come up to last year 's levels . |
| 15 | He emphasized that " NATO is not the whole of the Atlantic alliance , and not all questions can be settled at that level " . |
| 16 | The eminent weekend ‘ assessors ’ are no doubt most conscientious in their task and , despite the apparent absence of a ‘ score card ’ , come to their conclusions in inviolate objectivity , but that is not the whole of the process . |
| 17 | But that was not the whole of the Webbs ' criticism of Owen 's grand project for the reconstitution of the economy as a set of nationwide industrial co-operatives , one for each trade or industry . |
| 18 | We are urging that law is , in truth , not the will of the State , but that from which the will of the State derives whatever moral authority it may possess . |
| 19 | If the will of Parliament is sovereign and not the will of the people , how can we be true politically participative citizens ? |
| 20 | This is not the call of the entertainers or the edutainers . |
| 21 | The answer to that is that the consideration is not the rendering of the services , as is plain from the fact that the document is to take effect in Equity from the date . |
| 22 | It was a starry night that night , and by leaning against the cold window Boy could see the stars , not the stars of The Bar ceiling now , but the real ones . |
| 23 | " Conversations with a Gorilla " is not the title of a children 's fairy-tale but of a supposedly scientific contribution to the National Geographic Magazine . |
| 24 | Such matters were not the concern of a Khan . |
| 25 | Repatriation was not the concern of the embassy , they must go to the British Consulate , a little distance away on the other side of the Brandenburg Gate . |
| 26 | Yes , he was a professor — an associate , not the holder of a chair , and did teach , but preferred to be referred to as Dr. Briant rather than professor . |
| 27 | ‘ You are so young , so tender — you know not the wickedness of the world , of devious and ambitious rascals . |
| 28 | The subject is the possibility of an attempt to normalize relations with Argentina , not the sovereignty of the Falklands , which is the ‘ Great Unmentionable ’ of mid-eighties Whitehall . |
| 29 | ABOVE The Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei ( 1564–1642 ) , who got into trouble with the Roman Catholic Church because he stated in public that , as a result of his observations , he had come to the conclusion that the Earth was not the centre of the Universe . |
| 30 | As US scientist Lester Pearson said , ‘ There is a need for a revolution in mankind 's ( sic ) thinking as basic as the one introduced by Copernicus , who first pointed out that the earth was not the centre of the universe . ’ |