Example sentences of "not of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had come across very few others not of the Kind , with that strength of vision . |
| 2 | His politics are not of the kind which nurture nastiness ; he was fashioned for finer things . |
| 3 | This may include meals but not of the kind or quality you may prefer . |
| 4 | The legislation of Guntram , Childebert II and Chlothar II is indicative not of the work of one man , but of the style and practice of Merovingian law-giving in the late sixth and early seventh centuries . |
| 5 | In the view of the committee the solution to the problem lay in the nationalisation , not of the land itself , but of all development rights in undeveloped land . |
| 6 | In this sense this imposed consciousness is a false consciousness for those who are dominated , since it serves the purposes of the superiors but not of the inferiors . |
| 7 | Labour offered a deeply dependent and conservative culture , one that derives from acceptance of the unalterable laws , not of the universe , but of a market economy . |
| 8 | No one but yourself was in the house when I came , barring the cook , who is not of the household . |
| 9 | Lord may I pick it up page four hundred and two erm at lesson B er there 's a plea of breach of duty , this new plea does however raise the issue not of the original , not apparent on the original fee then what is the scope of the solicitor 's duty that part of a particular aspect of a problem . |
| 10 | It is a system where a reasonably educated person would have heard of Homer but never of Kalidas , of Ibsen but rarely of Tagore , of Joan of Arc but not of the Rani of Jhansi ( another woman who took arms to try to drive the British out of her country ) , of Goethe but not of his contemporary the great Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib . |
| 11 | Unity of organization which by its nature will be a very longterm matter and unity in doctrines not of the substance of the faith , and we all know of significant divisions there , do not affect the central doctrine . |
| 12 | He would have been happier with a committee , but the owners , of whom several rented rather than owned their boats , were not of the substance from which committees are formed . |
| 13 | An emergency prohibition order was served on the restaurant and joint proprietor Mohammed Uddin , 29 , was later charged with selling an item which was not of the substance of the food demanded by the purchasers . |
| 14 | That requires a major re-examination of our programme — though not of the philosophy on which it is based . |
| 15 | There are no weekends , every day is a potential workday … rains may interrupt the activities of the men … but not of the women . |
| 16 | If it had been used more often , politicians and broadcasters alike would have regarded that as evidence not of the system 's success but of its failure . |
| 17 | The principle does not apply for anisotropic materials , where the " decay length " after which stresses are uniform is not of the order of one diameter d but rather of order where E , G are the longitudinal Young 's and shear moduli respectively and C is a constant ( Horgan 1972 ) . |
| 18 | bank deposits in currency not of the country in which the bank holding them is located |
| 19 | bank deposits in currency not of the country in which the bank holding them is located . |
| 20 | As such , it is a sign , if not of the times , then of things to come . |
| 21 | For a start , much of that earlier patronage was for the benefit of the patrons and not of the public . |
| 22 | He worked as its honorary secretary until its demise in 1919 when , according to his own view in his Seventy Years among Savages ( 1921 ) , ‘ It ended as it began in its character of Forlorn Hope ; we had the good will of the free-lances , not of the public or the professors . ’ |
| 23 | Likewise , Mr Clark has had to explain that his remark to Mr Lamont ( ‘ I can see you were n't at Eton ’ ) is derogatory not of the chancellor but of Mr Clark 's alma mater , where ‘ you were surrounded by shits and knew what shits were , the sort of people who could vote against Her in the first round . |
| 24 | Resignations , both of ministers and of admirals but not of the Chancellor , were threatened . |
| 25 | A pity , in a way , that the dancing would be merely metaphorical : this was a house large enough to accommodate dancing , but their friends were not of the dancing classes , would gaze in astonishment , alarm , sophisticated horror , intellectual condemnation , at dancing in a private house … another year , perhaps , for the dancing . |
| 26 | The product is defective in the sense that is not of the standard that Alice expected . |
| 27 | He had the air , not of the proprietor of the hotel , but of a long-term guest who no longer bothered to pay his bills . |
| 28 | So far as the Yek were concerned any man who was not of the race of the True people — the Yek , the N'pani , the Ch'noze — was an alien , barely human , and as such was forever suspect . |
| 29 | It was an approach not of the land-users themselves but of their rulers , and therefore it is necessary to discuss briefly what the colonial rulers ' political and economic interests were , and in what way they related to the people of colonised areas and to the natural resources they found there . |
| 30 | The Noble Viscount , Lord Whitelaw put it I thought extremely well , extremely persuasively , when he spoke on second reading on this question , not of the Chairman , but of the five Home Office nominees . |