Example sentences of "not [vb infin] the [n mass] of [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Mere are many ways in which governments and their supporters can prevent these methods from being effective , but they can not work at all if the opposition has no real procedural opportunity to apply real scrutiny , nor if its efforts do not arouse the media of information and public opinion .
2 The members of this new class did not own the means of production but they were set apart from the proletariat by possession of a distinct form of capital — intellectual capital .
3 Arguing from a neo-Marxist point of view Barbara and John Ehrenreich claim that there is a distinctive ‘ professional-managerial ’ class , which consists of ‘ salaried mental workers who do not own the means of production and whose major function in the social division of labor may be described broadly as the reproduction of capitalist culture and capitalist class relations ’ .
4 While the bureaucracy does not own the means of production , distribution and exchange , nor in any meaningful sense do ‘ the people ’ , except constitutionally .
5 Trotsky refused to describe it as a ruling class since it did not own the means of production : it had ‘ neither stocks nor bonds .
6 But it did not own the means of production .
7 The administration may not own the means of production but it controls them through bureaucratic direction .
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