Example sentences of "not of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was certainly not of weak intellect , being a mature businessman who must have known the precise circumstances in which he found himself . |
| 2 | This has been undesirable , but not of critical importance because our income from invisible exports has made good the difference . |
| 3 | Margaret is a girl of only three years and is not of suitable age to take over this kingdom . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Therefore the details of their origins are not of paramount importance . |
| 6 | But this definition ignores the possibility that lesbianism might have different meanings ; for some , it might be a matter of object choice but not of political or personal identity . |
| 7 | Given the precedent of 1925 , it is extraordinary that its lessons have not been learnt : the inadvisability of one country pegging its currency to a more powerful one ; the inadvisability , indeed , of that country artificially pegging its currency at all in the face of pressures , speculative and real , which are likely in the fullness of time to force adjustment towards a rate determined by economic forces reflective not of political desire but of relative unit costs between countries . |
| 8 | The removal of Alberto Martín Artajo from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs , and his replacement by Fernando María Castiella , represented a change of incumbent , but not of political approach nor ideological commitment . |
| 9 | As a people , the Basques are the oddity of Western Europe , because of their language , the eskuara as it is called , which is one of the great linguistic mysteries , being the only language of Western Europe not of Indo-European stock . |
| 10 | One can speak here only of strong probability , not of absolute certainty . |
| 11 | Concern about the concentration of ownership of the press is not of recent origin . |
| 12 | The decided cases are few and mostly not of recent date . |
| 13 | Make a note of the values at maximum and minimum and if they are not of equal magnitude adjust the zero-offset trimpot so as to make them equal . |
| 14 | This confirms earlier evidence that the double bonds in the geodesic structure are not of equal reactivity . |
| 15 | As mentioned in chapter 2 , we are indebted to the Egyptians for our present division of the day into twenty-four hours , although the Egyptian hours were not of equal length , since at all times of the year the periods of daylight and darkness were each divided into twelve hours . |
| 16 | These were not of equal intensity , so that the low glacial sea levels may not have been identical . |
| 17 | Now I also agree that these criteria are not of equal importance and I certainly would put the greatest weight on criterion one which is to avoid the greenbelt in fact I think it 's so important that it should n't be a criterion but it should be actually be within the preamble as it is now . |
| 18 | Each adult citizen may have one vote but each vote was not of equal value . |
| 19 | Fresh from punishment in the pain-glove , glowing pink himself , Lexandro sat with his brother Scouts , regarded with some awe by those not of Wolverine Squad . |
| 20 | This effect can vitiate scientific observation , as when seventeenth century experimenters , familiar with the concepts of post-Galilean mechanics but not of electrostatic attraction and repulsion , regularly reported observing chaff falling as though by gravitation , or mechanically rebounding from the electrified bodies which attracted them . |
| 21 | The duchy of Aquitaine was not of ancient or Carolingan origin . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh no , sir , not of outdoor things . ’ |
| 23 | I floated high on clouds , not of golden daffodils but of fantasies . |
| 24 | Example ( 3 ) ( d ) , for instance , would be an abbreviated form of a structure that could perhaps be realized more fully as : ( 26 ) our lawyer sent the packages ; the packages are registered It may of course be claimed that we should think in terms not of actual clauses but of some more hypothetical and abstract clause ; maybe the last five words in ( 26 ) should be replaced by something like : ( 27 ) [ subject the package plural ] subject be registered |
| 25 | The picture that emerges of the founding treaties is thus one , not of immutable texts , but of texts subject to periodical evolution . |
| 26 | But one hopes they would have reached this view on grounds not of personal taste or fashion , but on a calculus of harm which J.S. Mill would have recognised and respected . |
| 27 | This is the story then , not of personal development against a colourful political background but of what it really means to live as a white person of conscience in a country whose rulers decree that individuals should be ranked according to the colour of their skin . |
| 28 | At times the FTC appears to spend much of its time worrying about how it can control the anti-competitive actions not of private business but of fellow bureaucrats who are busy promoting cartels . |
| 29 | When , however , a woman is doing the important and demanding work of child care , taking a further job must be a matter of choice and not of financial necessity . |
| 30 | When Denethor says that stewards do not come to be kings by the lapse of a few centuries in Gondor , but only ‘ in other places of less royalty ’ , the remark is true of Scotland , and of Britain — though not of Anglo-Saxon England , ruled from the legendary past of King Cerdic to 1065 by kings descended in paternal line from one ancestor . |