Example sentences of "[not/n't] of the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our criticism is not of the economic regeneration . |
| 2 | An implication of differentiation theory but not of the associative theory , therefore , is that mere exposure to a pair of stimuli without their being followed by any special consequences should be enough to enhance their discriminability . |
| 3 | He also needed the London underground , for which he had a love/dread relationship , and the London theatre , not of the new kind , but , when available , of the old music hall tradition and , when in season , the pantomime . |
| 4 | But on the basis of evidence available now , it seems reasonable to conclude that class is not of the first importance in structuring our experiences of family life . |
| 5 | Quadrupling the number of academics in 15 years inevitably led to some appointments of people ‘ not of the first rank ’ , as some politely express themselves . |
| 6 | There is a curious facility possessed by some writers , often those not of the first rank , which consists of an ability to create characters who step out of the surroundings in which they occur and enter the popular imagination . |
| 7 | He was an agent , not of the capitalist West , but of the spirit of human freedom . |
| 8 | You should not anticipate reliable floppy disk reading if the disk is not of the correct type , or if it has not been formatted using the correct procedure for that particular disk drive . |
| 9 | Quite suddenly whether Anne worried or what she thought were not of the least importance . |
| 10 | She knew that Nîmes was a provincial city and would have preferred it not to be , seeing " provincial " in terms of the English nineteenth century novel , not of the Roman Provincia , Provence . |
| 11 | The breakfast used is not of the ruff-core variety , it 's employed subtly throughout and will enliven your regular cuppa . |
| 12 | The true love relationship is not of the ordinary world , this meeting is of another world , partly of emotions and partly of the mystical . |
| 13 | One important objection made against this method is that even at its best it provides evidence not of the actual exercise of power but of potential power , and presumed potential power at that . |
| 14 | However , to manage an artisan workshop at very least implies a possession of the knowledge side of a craft if not of the actual making . |
| 15 | This appears to envisage rules which require the disclosure of only the arrangements for the payment of commission and not of the actual amount . |
| 16 | This was the voice of the ‘ grass roots ’ and not of the annual meetings in London . |
| 17 | companies , wh wh which are not of the western world , that we 've ever come across . |
| 18 | Now while , we can find a submatrix Y1 such that unc where E1 is of standard canonical form , Y1 is not of the general form D1 and so will not permute with C1 . |
| 19 | These Dutch cattle were not of the Friesian type but an old type which was devastated by cattle plague in the Netherlands in 1745 . |
| 20 | ( b ) Transfer of work A client is properly regarded as a client of the firm and not of the individual solicitor unless there is some personal , often family , connection between the two . |
| 21 | First of all , the available evidence is not of the right kind . |
| 22 | All aluminium saucepans including those from Buckingham Palace here collected in July nineteen forty but unfortunately it was not of the right grade and so housewives then suffered for the rest of the war and having to cook with inferior pans . |
| 23 | Rejecting defence arguments that Noriega was a prisoner of war — he had been captured as a result of the December 1989 US invasion of Panama [ see pp. 37112-13 ] — US District Judge William M. Hoeveler stated that the sentence was reflective only of the evidence presented during the trial and not of the wider aspects of the case . |
| 24 | Such a grant or renewal is a purpose under the Act of 1963 or the Act of 1968 and not of the 1976 Act . |
| 25 | I read Norman Mailer 's journalism about an action-man writer involved in danger , resistance and political commitment : adventure stories not of the distant past , but of recent times . |
| 26 | ‘ Theory ’ , to be intellectually respectable , has to be presented as such , and to be a product of the academy , not of the amorphous institution of literature . |
| 27 | They were surprised by the intensity of the response , their rhythm suffered and their perception of the space-time rapport is not of the highest calibre . |
| 28 | But of course no one wants to buy a product if it is not of the highest quality and this is where the Potato Marketing Board can help . |
| 29 | The UK 's relative lack of success in exploiting innovative technology is not , therefore , because the country 's engineers and scientists lack good innovative ideas or that its R&D is not of the highest quality . |
| 30 | The engine room , the Cabinet-committee structure , may have seriously under-performed in the six-month build-up to the Argentine invasion of the Falklands , but its command post , the full Cabinet , according to one senior minister not of the Thatcherite persuasion , performed its classic function once the crisis had broken : ‘ She had to carry the Cabinet on every major decision ’ , he said . |