Example sentences of "not of " in BNC.
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| 31 | Ileana Cotrubas is not of that ilk , and many of her devotees must have been shocked when it was disclosed last weekend that her Covent Garden recital with Geoffrey Parsons on Thursday evening was to be her farewell British appearance . |
| 32 | The contractors are rightly concerned that they should not be forced to pick up the bill for problems which are not of their making . |
| 33 | Sir : I refer to the dropping of charges against the man accused of raping a mentally handicapped girl on the grounds she was not of fit mind to answer questions and give evidence ( 4 October ) . |
| 34 | His canonry was not of Oxford but of Kobe , of the Anglican Church in Japan , but it was the Oxford Diocesan Clergy Cricket side which he captained and ran for 25 years . |
| 35 | For a start , much of that earlier patronage was for the benefit of the patrons and not of the public . |
| 36 | The script kept sending out these little signals ( 'It 's only when there 's land around that sea travel becomes really interesting' ) but it was possible to take them as evidence not of exhaustion but of apprehension about the project . |
| 37 | Therefore , the existence of atrocity stories on subjects such as this does not of itself reveal that this work is emotionally undemanding ; simply that this is one impression that the story is intended to convey . |
| 38 | Another potentially distorting factor is that whilst average incomes can be compared between one country and another , they do not of themselves reveal the true comparable standard of living , nor the comparable potential markets for all products . |
| 39 | Socio-economic problems remained largely the same in 1905–14 and 1922 in Kursk guberniia ( though not of course in the Lower Volga area on account of the Famine ) . |
| 40 | Krupskaia admitted more truthfully that at least three-quarters of their inmates were the result of contemporary conditions , not of past sufferings . |
| 41 | This was claimed to be the work not of the IRA proper , but of the Irish National Liberation Army , an offshoot of it . |
| 42 | A politician of intuition not of intellect , she served as the perfect antidote to the cerebral doctrines of the Keynesian planners of the 1945–79 period , against whose dominion she had so memorably rebelled . |
| 43 | But , by the end of the 1980s , while a larger and larger proportion of the female population was in employment , it was seldom employment at a level of high command , and often not of a permanent kind . |
| 44 | To read and write , to borrow books and debate , to study the sciences and learn a foreign tongue — all these were so many steps not of economic advancement but of human dignity . |
| 45 | In the 1890s the atmosphere was not of that settled calm with which it was credited by later and even more anxious generations . |
| 46 | Indeed , one wonders if the play was written as a conservative response to the controversy , since it directly addresses the most challenging claim or implication of the radical transvestite , namely , that gender division and inequality are a consequence not of divine or natural law but of social custom . |
| 47 | Finally , the transvestite challenge to masculinity and sexual difference works in terms of transgressive inversion and reinscription , not of transcendence , or the recovery of authentic selfhood . |
| 48 | For all sins , as theologians weary not of reminding us , are sins of disobedience . |
| 49 | The government 's strategy increasingly appears to be one not of reducing expenditure but of containing the rise in costs , targeting benefits on the most needy , and encouraging a redistribution of the burden to the private sector . |
| 50 | The Conservative government has not of course been passive in the process of restructuring the social bases of electoral choice . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | When a [ makonde ] sculptor departs from the stereotype [ … $ this is nearly always because an element of doubt or defiance has been worked into it ; a madonna is given a demon to hold instead of the Christ Child ; a priest is represented with the feet of a wild animal , a pietà becomes a study not of sorrow but of revenge , with the mother raising a spear over the body of her dead son . |
| 53 | For revolutions may occur , but the belief that they will does not of itself ensure a better lived life . |
| 54 | There are no weekends , every day is a potential workday … rains may interrupt the activities of the men … but not of the women . |
| 55 | ‘ English ’ prayers were seen by these Asian children ( mainly Sikhs and Hindus ) as innocuous , even in some cases enjoyable , but not of any emotional significance . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | The fact that the church was not of the highest architectural quality eased some of the problems that could have been associated with its conversion into flats . |
| 59 | But Jack did n't know that and , even if he had known , it would only have given him a false feeling of security , because the threat from streptomycin , when it came , was not of a hind that he could have imagined or foreseen . |
| 60 | They talk not of rural matters ( except of the possibilities of old barn conversions ) , but of stocks , shares , investments , and insurance . |