Example sentences of "[adj] but of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wonder whether , if Labour Members present were Members not of this but of a similar Parliament in an eastern European country or in Russia , they would be taking this attitude . |
| 2 | He was good-looking but of the rough , hirsute kind . |
| 3 | As late as the 1760s the ideal government , in the eyes not merely of George III but of the great majority of his subjects , was one consisting of a number of heads of departments , each performing his task efficiently and responsible only to the king and Parliament . |
| 4 | Often the men marry girls not only younger but of a higher social class than their own in Sylhet . |
| 5 | Sepulveda justified the enslavement of the Indians on the grounds that they were the natural slaves mentioned in Book I of Aristotle 's Politics ; the Dominican Friar Las Casas admitted the frailty of the Indians but argued that they were all the more children of God owing to their very lack of capacity and skill , which still implies a sort of sub-humanity but of a different kind . |
| 6 | The downtown antique shops which clustered in the streets off the Marktplatz sold the bric-a-brac , not of the nineteenth but of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries . |
| 7 | – and k are correct ( but insignificantly different from zero ) on the first repetition , and are significantly different from zero but of the wrong sign on the second repetition . |
| 8 | God is not God of the dead but of the living ( Mark 12:27 ) . |