Example sentences of "not the [noun] 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 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | FACILITIES MANAGEMENT ‘ NOT THE POT OF GOLD AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW THAT MANY BELIEVE ’ — IDC |
22 | " The strings were not the ornament of life but its substance . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 ) . |
25 | This is not the disappearance of work emphasized by ‘ post-industrial ’ theorists . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | ( Not the Streams of Lethe more ) |
28 | But on the whole I was the receiver , not the giver of advice . |
29 | But to savour murder — that 's not the prompting of Cain , that 's Satan ! ’ |
30 | 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 . |