Example sentences of "not [art] [noun pl] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another suggests that Dom Pérignon spent several years in the Benedictine monastery at Alcántara in Spain and that it was he , not the monks of Santiago de Compostela , who brought the cork to Hautvillers . |
| 2 | ( Not the Streams of Lethe more ) |
| 3 | Although libraries ( especially young peoples ' libraries ) are not the havens of quiet of folk myth , they can cater for such children if staff are trained to recognize and respect them . |
| 4 | Why do not the Bishops of England and Wales sit down and ask themselves why there is a shortage of priests , why there are not many vocations , and why laity are lapsing in numbers , including many young people ? |
| 5 | These were not the concerns of children who thought Spielberg 's film a flop . |
| 6 | Do not the upholders of law have daily experience of the fact that the greedy society so desired by Conservative Members must inevitably be a bad one ? |
| 7 | Whatever the Dersinghams had skimped on , it was not the accoutrements of death . |
| 8 | Bristol was burning , and these were not the lights of Oxford with a message of unattainable ambition . |
| 9 | It is not the lights of London , visible over the roofs of the houses on the lower side of the lane . |
| 10 | It is here that the notion of contract plays its vital role — not the doctrines of contract law , which in many respects are as arid and unsupportive of commercial activity as a dedicated anti-capitalist could imagine — rather , contract as practice , as putting into words what the parties can and must do , and if need be adjusting , or excluding , particular rules of law . |
| 11 | This was adopted by the House of Lords in the GCHQ case , where Lord Diplock said that ‘ National security is the responsibility of the executive government ; what action is needed to protect its interests is … a matter upon which those upon whom the responsibility rests , and not the courts of justice , must have the last word . ’ |
| 12 | Other well-known writers emphasize not the failures of servants , but the tyranny of masters . |
| 13 | Secondly , and a slightly personal comment , one front- bencher was asked , er , about my comments in opposition to O M O V and in favour of trade union participation and he said John Edmunds is expressing his views , they are not the views of G M B members . |
| 14 | It is not the views of Mr Brzezinski , France or even Germany that count , however , but those of the American government . |
| 15 | ‘ So , ’ he went on , his eyes missing nothing , she thought , certainly not the sparks of anger in hers , ‘ tell me , what 's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this ? ’ |
| 16 | The main plank of Rayner 's approach to improving efficiency was the establishment of a programme of scrutinies which were designed to examine not the merits of policies but rather their implementation . |
| 17 | Rowe , for example , believes the Act will be recorded in history as ‘ another milestone in the long progress towards recognising children as persons and not the possessions of adults ’ . |
| 18 | Two months later Gorbachev was saying his comments were not the Tablets of Moses . |
| 19 | The serfs , that was , not the fools of aristocrats he had been brought up with . |
| 20 | and would have done so , had not the laws of nature prevented it . |
| 21 | She sat for the evening with a strange man 's hand inside her stocking , and yet it had not occurred to her that the laws of a disorganized school trip were not the laws of nature or of justice . |
| 22 | Whether or not the likes of Richard Neville were accurately described in this manner by Mrs Whitehouse and other members of what Neville and his associates perceived to be the ‘ establishment ’ , or whether they could genuinely be described in Cohen 's ( 1988 ) terms as ‘ folk devils ’ , ‘ persons emerging to become defined as a threat to societal values and interests ’ , it is clear that , for Mrs Whitehouse , they represented a grave threat to all that she held dear . |
| 23 | These mannequins are not the glamourpusses of Vogue , but the strange girl next door of a Diane Arbus photograph . |
| 24 | The blame fell on pollution ; not the clouds of smoke and occasional waves of sulphur dioxide which were known to drift up from the industrial valleys of the Ruhr and kill off the sensitive firs , but the more insidious long-term changes implied by acid rain . |
| 25 | In the United States the Supreme Court , in Marbury v Madison ( 1803 ) 1 Cranch 137 , declared that it had power to decide whether or not the Acts of Congress conformed with the Constitution . |
| 26 | It is in this sense that higher education can be said to institutionalize not the structures of knowledge , but the experience of uncertainty . |
| 27 | But these new sciences were not the products of developments within either the morphological or the environmentalist study of evolution . |
| 28 | He could remember minute details of planes he had helped to design but not the names of people with whom he worked . |
| 29 | ‘ It is clear that political-administrative elites and not the masses of acceptors are deciding on the technology to be used ’ USAID Evaluation Report , 1979 |
| 30 | They celebrate not the facts of nature , but the transforming power of atmosphere and momentary effects of light . |