Example sentences of "[noun] but of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the many boasts made by the Free Church Council 's driving force , Hughes , was that the Free Church Council was the real representative in England not only of undiluted Protestantism but of the de facto Church of the English-speaking world . |
| 2 | Ultrasonic waves are sound waves but of a higher frequency ( pitch ) than the human ear can hear . |
| 3 | What we can say , though , is that the picture which emerges from these is not of a monolithic bloc but of a constantly mutating organism made up of elements which are symbiotic and mutually contradictory at the same time ( see , for example , Sanjek 1988 ; Hirsch 1969 ; Peterson and Berger 1971 ; Hardy n.d. ; Frith 1978 ; 1983a ; 1988a ) . |
| 4 | Her hands were cupped before him in a stylised gesture which he recognised not as that of a beggar but of a supplicant , a penitent , someone reaching out for a blessing from God . |
| 5 | Whenever I passed the Treasurer he was talking not of £s but of the difficulty of ‘ number 14 ’ . |
| 6 | Embarrassment , she thought , was fear but of a very reduced kind , just as they say an itch is pain to a very mild degree . |
| 7 | According to this view , the woman who agrees to have sex with D only when he promises to marry her ( never intending to keep this promise ) — and because he has promised to marry her — is a victim not of rape but of the lesser offence of procuring sexual intercourse by false representations . |
| 8 | This is an example of what Cain ( 1973 ) calls the ‘ instructional attitude ’ which senior constables adopt in relation to probationers , passing on not just a knowledge of law but of the situations in which to apply it . |
| 9 | The Scottish study shows that two thirds of the male clients were employed and are increasingly in higher earning brackets but of the female clients an increasing number are in lower income groups . |
| 10 | However , if it is a moral decision rather than mechanical conformism or a prudent surrender to social pressures , the case remains fundamentally as before , but with an added layer ; he now takes account , not only of the effects on his parents but of the damage to the community as a whole of any successful disobedience . |
| 11 | Is it similarly possible that these emotions are not a consequence of the dream but of the apparently haphazard interaction between midbrain and hindbrain activity during REM sleep ? |
| 12 | The story of the abrupt curtailment of life in Pompeii by the eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79 and the subsequent preservation of the city , not only its architecture but of the stuff of life itself — bread , utensils , eggs and bodies of humans , dogs and birds — through the protection of its coating of lava and ash is a well known one and has been fully and vividly recounted many times from the eye-witness story of Pliny himself to the present day . |
| 13 | I felt a touch of the sinister that rules so many of the islands ; there was no reason to shiver in that warm spot , but I did , and experienced a slight sense of embarrassment , as though I had been intruding , thinking perhaps not of Tiare but of the great love all those years ago which had produced her : forty years ago when the water was cascading over the same cliff in just the same way as it had today , Princess Tiare 's mother and her lover had bathed in the same secret pool and later , perhaps , made love in the cave behind . |
| 14 | It happened again on Thursday , when the people not only of England but of the United Kingdom as a whole blew a resounding raspberry at all the wise men , the opinion pollsters most of all . |
| 15 | Any failure of the new deal to achieve its aspirations will be a failure not only of local management but of the management executive in not exercising effective and comprehensive data collection , monitoring , and implementation procedures . |
| 16 | No data is yet available on grassland areas in the extended LFA but of the 1.04 million hectares of the original Wales LFA , 413,337 hectares is permanent grassland and 292,210 hectares is categorised as rough grazing ( excluding common land ) . |
| 17 | Wales was conquered and subjected in the middle ages , Scotland 's parliament and administration were absorbed in 1707 , Ireland lost all but local administration in 1801 and the British upper classes reacted in horror at the prospect not of Irish independence but of an element of internal self-government when it was proposed by Gladstone in 1886 . |
| 18 | A common institutional response is to be intolerant , not of the circumstances but of the patients and their families . |
| 19 | The state of emergency in which our planet finds itself consists not only in the contamination of nature but of the very roots of our thought , which are still shaped by thousands of years of prejudice and prescriptive categories . |
| 20 | Incidentally ; the choice of these two films represents a critical opinion , not only of their special effects though these are outstanding too , even if Oscar turned a blind eye but of the films as a whole . |
| 21 | If only Craig was at her side it would be so different , she needed his strength to see her through the ordeal , not only of the funeral but of the days and weeks that were to come . |
| 22 | In the course of this reading there can be pauses for discussion at appropriate points , when carefully chosen questions can be introduced to explore possible failures in the children 's understanding , not just of terms and ideas but of the interrelationships which the syntactic structures convey . |
| 23 | This was a result not of the Bill or of the war but of a 1938 decision whose effect was delayed by the outbreak of war . |
| 24 | Quality not only of the product but of every aspect of every job function of every service . |
| 25 | However , if we look at the phenomenon of life in terms not of individuals but of the species as a whole , the necessity of personal death becomes obvious . |
| 26 | He would talk not only of their vocation to the ministry but of the books which they were reading and the circumstances of their family . |
| 27 | What this debate about conviction highlights is the continuing absence in the new Labour Party not of sensible policies but of an enveloping conviction that can be easily summarised , passionately preached , readily understood . |
| 28 | Does the Secretary of State accept that there has not been , is not and will not be a majority in Scotland for the Trident missile system and that , ultimately , its deployment will depend on the consent not of the Westminster Parliament but of the Scottish people , and it will not be forthcoming ? |
| 29 | For instance , winking groups with other ways of warning or of doubting or of sharing complicity , depending on a context which is a matter not of physical description but of the form of social intercourse . |
| 30 | Radcliffe-Brown was also a functionalist but of a less programmatic sort ; he developed a more sophisticated terminology and theoretical approach , and in many respects improved on Durkheim . |