Example sentences of "of [noun sg] not [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That Spartan deference to allied feeling was indeed a matter of necessity not sentiment is shown by her peace proposals to Athens in 425 : in Thucydides ' account ( iv.20 ) the Spartans say that if Athens and Sparta do a deal the rest of Greece will do them honour . |
| 2 | Erm , sorry of Agriculture not Education |
| 3 | It was of course not anger . |
| 4 | Of course not toothpaste . |
| 5 | He loved sex too much to condemn any expression of lust , and though he 'd discouraged the homosexual courtships he 'd attracted , it was out of indifference not revulsion . |
| 6 | Restaurant boss Torbjorn Olsson , who sells the stuff in Soho , London , said : ‘ When they get home , their breath stinks of garlic not beer . |
| 7 | As used elsewhere , it is now a term of law not politics . |
| 8 | Section 4 of the Homicide Act 1957 provides that a person who kills another in pursuance of a suicide pact is guilty of manslaughter not murder . |
| 9 | We will look at other methods of assessing the level and effects of crime in a moment , but we note here that both survey-based estimates and police statistics show increasing levels of crime , the differences are of degree not direction . |
| 10 | If the more rural areas show up on the whole slightly better than the more populous places that is perhaps a feature that occurs in other aspects of Scottish life ; and let the indwellers in those backward centres of population not repine . |
| 11 | Here rusting metal is allowed to take the shapes of nature not man , creating perhaps by accident some Arthurian throne for a warrior king . |
| 12 | As with the NHS , the public overwhelmingly want care in the community to be a matter of pride not parsimony , and will support adequate funding to make this possible . |
| 13 | Job titles are thus denotive of seniority not function . |
| 14 | Benazir Bhutto looks to be strong but it 's a coalition of convenience not conviction , in a country where politics follows the rules of war , opposition means nothing , winning is everything . |
| 15 | She screamed loudly , but it was a bellow of rage not helplessness . |
| 16 | Eventually the state came to be a repressive tool or instrument serving the interests of a new ruling class based upon the ownership of capital not land . |
| 17 | John Lennon and Yoko allowed the world 's media into their hotel suite in Amsterdam for their bed-in , a honeymoon to epitomize the institution of love not war . |
| 18 | All of us face racism and sexism in our explorations , and the wonderful articles and portfolios in Passion signpost a continuum of experiences , our litany of survival , which has created the situation where we can , like the Blackwomen 's Creativity Project , network internationally from a position of equality not imperialism . |
| 19 | Appeals from the High Court to the Court of Appeal are governed by RSC , Ord 59 except that the appeal is by way of application not summons ( r 7.49(3) ) . |