Example sentences of "not [art] [noun sg] of [noun] " 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 | It is not the responsibility of governments to run the industry of the nation , but rather to provide a stable environment which will allow private capital to create jobs and wealth for the general good . |
| 3 | As she confessed much later , it was not the thought of failure which made Bradlaugh and herself pause at the outset : |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Science , then , is not the whole of experience but only an abstract mode of experience . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Green a bad area , it 's not the whole of Green , it 's just the flats . |
| 9 | But method is not the whole of psychology , and no psychological method is intrinsically feminist or anti-feminist . |
| 10 | But this is not the whole of Eisenman 's argument . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | These tremendous images … are not the whole of Christ 's teaching , but they set forth the supernatural mystery which is the heart of the teaching … . |
| 14 | Not the lack of direction but the fact that the various initiatives were going in different directions ! |
| 15 | the fear she 'd lost him not the lack of doubt |
| 16 | They 're just what you would expect to encounter on safari — except that the backdrop for these elephants is not the wilderness of Africa 's vast plains but the flower-bedecked veranda of a neat house . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought terns liked coasts and estuaries , not the middle of cities ? ’ |
| 18 | But it is surely not the will of God that a gentleman who has come here to practise medicine … |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | FACILITIES MANAGEMENT ‘ NOT THE POT OF GOLD AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW THAT MANY BELIEVE ’ — IDC |
| 21 | " The strings were not the ornament of life but its substance . |
| 22 | Drescher has not the pervasiveness of Wedgwood 's image of the kneeling slave , first designed for a medallion at the time of the 1788 petition campaign but afterwards widely translated to other formats . |
| 23 | The goal of history is not the realization of God or the pursuit of reason , but the full development of a supra-individual ‘ humanity ’ ( Elster , 1985 , p. 1 16 ) . |
| 24 | This is not the disappearance of work emphasized by ‘ post-industrial ’ theorists . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But on the whole I was the receiver , not the giver of advice . |
| 27 | But to savour murder — that 's not the prompting of Cain , that 's Satan ! ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |