Example sentences of "not [art] end [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 They believe that death has been conquered and that it is not the end of life .
2 This is not the end of history : it is the return to history , after the long freeze imposed on European political development by the Cold War .
3 As she came through the side roads to her house she heard a few trial notes on a wind instrument of some sort — a clarinet , was it ? a run of notes that seemed to carry on where the last solitary trill of the bird had stopped , and then a beat , beat , beat of a bass and a drum slowly swinging in , and the band , trying out their numbers high up in a house , lilted together into a piece , melancholy at base with gay little twiddles from the clarinet bravely calling that nightfall was not the end of hope , not a closure — a little bit of swing filtering over back gardens to draw people out , out into the spring night , a beat along the channels of their blood suggesting that this hour , as the light dies , as the dusk creeps along the ground , is not an ending but a beginning .
4 The passing of an Act , though , is not the end of policy making .
5 The problem is that saying this , or offering any simple definition for other than heuristic purposes , is the beginning not the end of inquiry .
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