Example sentences of "[noun pl] but of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ultrasonic waves are sound waves but of a higher frequency ( pitch ) than the human ear can hear . |
| 2 | Whenever I passed the Treasurer he was talking not of £s but of the difficulty of ‘ number 14 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A common institutional response is to be intolerant , not of the circumstances but of the patients and their families . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If you think not of yourself and your own feelings but of the other person , your interest and concern is likely to evoke a response . |
| 10 | The swan-white robes were not the possessions of single families but of the community , and every mother whose infant wore a robe made and sewed a tiny bow to the back of the garment , so that it might be recorded how many infants had been christened in it . |
| 11 | However , their multiple condensation at the level of the state makes it possible to speak , not just of a set of regional problems but of a general crisis of hegemony . |
| 12 | Alternatively it may be of great specialist interest to the readers of a particular set of publications but of no personal interest or use to the staff on those journals . |
| 13 | It may be that what we are protecting children from is not so much the awful consequences of their ignorant decisions but of the burden of responsibility for those decisions which children are not yet ready to bear and which , for entirely non-political reasons , we can not choose to impose upon them . |
| 14 | R. primula from Turkestan ( 6ft — 1.8m — tall with small yellow flowers and fern-like foliage ) , and R. rubiginosa from central and eastern Europe ( an 8ft — 2.4m — thicket smothered with single pink flowers and , later , with red hips ) , are both noted for the scent not of their flowers but of the foliage . |
| 15 | However , Jones claimed to see only neutrons , and a few of those only at levels that might be interesting to science and geophysicists but of no relevance to making commercial fusion reactors . ’ |
| 16 | Design mirrors ( represents and directly embodies ) this transformative reality by uniting , in the vertical direction , in the moment " of designing , complex human abilities both cognitive and practical and in the horizontal ( over time but in interaction with the vertical moment ) , the movement from critique through the various moments of problem resolution and definition to the realisation of the " solution " in practice ( also cognitive-practical moments but of a different order ) . |
| 17 | In the end , the radical change of direction which the country took under Mrs Thatcher was the result not merely of the party donning a new suit of clothes but of the electorate despairing at the failure of thirty years of consensus politics to do anything to arrest the inexorable process of national decline . |
| 18 | It is a telling commentary upon parliament but even more so upon the church 's limited political potency : at that stage , the clergy needed the support not just of the commons but of the peers as well in order to defend effectively their privileges and franchises ; repeal was effected in the council and chiefly through the agency of the lords ; when the prelates contemplated a riposte in convocation they were instantly quelled by writs of prohibition . |
| 19 | THE MOST interesting reaction to the Labour Party 's abandonment of the closed shop is not that of the Left or the unions but of the Conservatives . |
| 20 | These ambiguities were not merely the result of unfortunate political alliances but of the much longer history of middle-class women 's involvement in the field of social regulation . |
| 21 | The scents from the sodden earth filled her with an intolerable weight of memory ; not that of individual occasions but of the entire past . |