Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Embarrassment , she thought , was fear but of a very reduced kind , just as they say an itch is pain to a very mild degree . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Quality not only of the product but of every aspect of every job function of every service . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | To the Christian the natural world is not the result of some accident or chance event but of a deliberate act of creation . |
| 23 | Will he accept the gratitude of every Conservative Member and of the people of this country , because the treaty bears the imprint not only of my right hon. Friend but of the Foreign Secretary and of the Treasury ? |
| 24 | ‘ I 'll sing you a song , mates , ’ yelled back Bobby hoarsely , ‘ I 'll sing it from the roof-tops when we see an end not only of this strike but of every useless , time-wasting ; pointless strike we 've ever seen in this country in the last half-dozen years . |
| 25 | Regressive rock 's meaning is diminished because hardly anyone at all is into it ; the scene is claustrophobically LOCAL a parochial huddle — its problem is not one of dehumanized distance but of an overdose of intimacy . |
| 26 | She was suddenly afraid , not just of Gesner but of the catastrophes that might occur to the whole company because of the tension . |
| 27 | So the Marxist contention that capitalism is exploitation is not the result of carefully considered empirical evidence but of the Marxist definition of value . |
| 28 | " 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 . |
| 29 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the problem faced by the United Nations in recent decades has been entanglement in east-west confrontation and that at this stage of its development it does not need to embark on an extremely controversial and difficult period of structural reform but should make greater use not only of the United Nations charter but of the existing United Nations machinery ? |
| 30 | Not about the great figures of the game but of the subtle strategies behind it : the financial deals , how players could be disposed in different formations on the pitch . |