Example sentences of "[not/n't] the [noun sg] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | What I do mean is that although most women do hope for a happy and loving relationship with their husbands , the attainment of this is not the purpose of marriage . |
2 | As she confessed much later , it was not the thought of failure which made Bradlaugh and herself pause at the outset : |
3 | The source of these difficulties is not the campaign of opposition waged by the British Medical Association , nor is it an incipient revolt among backbench MPs . |
4 | Science , then , is not the whole of experience but only an abstract mode of experience . |
5 | Life in the guise of the crime-and-punishment process snatches up hunter and hunted into the contradictions and cruelties and deceits and frailties which are , in a word , life — not the whole of life of course , but life . |
6 | Education is not the whole of life and there is much information that men must acquire and many skills they must learn which are no part of education . |
7 | Green a bad area , it 's not the whole of Green , it 's just the flats . |
8 | But method is not the whole of psychology , and no psychological method is intrinsically feminist or anti-feminist . |
9 | Of course , naming is not the whole of language , as the opening passage of Wittgenstein 's Investigations makes us so well aware ; yet it is no doubt a central part of language , and still an important and controversial topic in the philosophy of language . |
10 | For an alternative formulation might be that it is the hallmark of democratic government ( which is not the whole of democracy ) that it is government by consent , by contrast with other forms of arbitrary or tyrannical rule where the wishes of the people are ignored and their assent or support is not sought , or considered necessary . |
11 | Not the lack of direction but the fact that the various initiatives were going in different directions ! |
12 | the fear she 'd lost him not the lack of doubt |
13 | And the Western experience of sex , he argues , is not the inhibition of discourse , is not describable as a regime of silence , but is rather a constant , and historically changing , deployment of discourses on sex , and this ever-expanding discursive explosion is part of a complex growth of control over individuals through the apparatus of sexuality . |
14 | FACILITIES MANAGEMENT ‘ NOT THE POT OF GOLD AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW THAT MANY BELIEVE ’ — IDC |
15 | " The strings were not the ornament of life but its substance . |
16 | This is not the disappearance of work emphasized by ‘ post-industrial ’ theorists . |
17 | A principal medium of transgressive reinscription is fantasy — but again , not the fantasy of transcendence so much as the inherently perverse , transgressive reordering of fantasy 's conventional opposite , the mundane . |
18 | But on the whole I was the receiver , not the giver of advice . |
19 | We shall not be a party to that : If Fascism was , as the Communists insisted , simply capitalism with its back to the wall , then it was realistic to see in Chamberlain 's rearmament programme not the promise of defence against German Fascism , but stage one in the construction of British Fascism . |
20 | Within the general framework of his attack on the humanistic Hegelian tradition of Western Marxism , Althusser 's specific objection to Sartre 's attempt to mediate Marxism with existential subjectivity was that such a move went against the crucial discoveries which had founded Marxism in the first place ; in an extension of Lévi-Strauss ' argument , he maintained that the notion of ‘ man ’ that Sartre used was derived from a particular ideological definition of the human subject which represses Marx 's insight that the human subject is not the centre of history , together with Freud 's that the subject is not centred in consciousness . |
21 | In coming to terms with conflicting feelings about the relationship between their parents , and being helped to do so , children assimilate the capacity to manage other relationships in which they are not the centre of attention and from which they may be excluded . |
22 | I am not the kind of person to be treated seriously , in Bob 's jargon . |
23 | He 's not the kind of person any of them want to have as a friend . |
24 | ‘ Anyone who knows Jo would realise that she 's not the kind of person to do that , ’ he said . |
25 | If you 're not the kind of person who is used to daydreaming , try a simple one first . |
26 | I 'm not the kind of person who is afraid of letting a woman take charge professionally , personally — or sexually . |
27 | ‘ I 'm not the kind of person that talks about my problems — I 'd rather sort them out myself . |
28 | The wine , though Richard was not the kind of person whom the sommelier kept waiting , was not particularly good . |
29 | She was not the kind of person who was fun , but she was the kind of person that people trusted , and that was a fair trade to her . |
30 | I 'm not the kind of person who spends all their free time glued to the telly . |