Example sentences of "[not/n't] of [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intel was the last to join the RISC bandwagon , Slater notes — repeating a comment made some time ago by Intels ' Dave House , that RISC was ‘ the last hope of the have-nots ’ — now it seems Intel is the have-not of the RISC marketplace . |
| 2 | There seems to be no particular difficulty with exigo , unless it is that it takes the form not of a request ( like the wordings in Gaius ) but of an instruction . |
| 3 | But this separation still continued in the cases to which the statute did not apply — e.g. if the trustee had active duties to perform , or if he was possessed , not of a freehold , but of chattels real or personal to another 's use . |
| 4 | Not to be outdone by the Rossinians and the Mozartians , or the Vienna and New York Philharmonics , Houston this year celebrates the twentieth anniversary not of a birth or death or a founding , but of a hiring , that of David Gockley as General Director of the Houston Grand Opera . |
| 5 | Attendance is slightly encouraged by the payment not of a salary but of an allowance for attendance . |
| 6 | These impressions are not of a kind that occur in our daily life . |
| 7 | But of his courage , though it was not of a kind that Hotspur admired , there could be little doubt ; and of his ability and calculating detachment , none . |
| 8 | If anything , by this time I would have welcomed the security not of a rope , but of seeing Sgurr a Mhaim about a mile closer . |
| 9 | If the evidence meant anything Riddle had died of a bullet fired into his neck , not of a stake driven through his heart . |
| 10 | Provisions for obsolete and slow moving stock will be determined by the directors based on physical and recorded stock levels but the presence or not of a part number on an item of stock or the recording or not of the item on the stock records will not of itself be any be any form of guide as to obsolescence . |
| 11 | What I liked about it was that though it was biting sarcasm , the way he spoke it gave you the impression not of a man who was bitter in any way , but of a man who pitied the members of the government for being so rotten and pitied us for being governed by such scum . |
| 12 | The scope of this section is wide , since there are three reasons why a person may be dealing otherwise than as a consumer : first , because he is a businessman ( see s 12(1) ( a ) ) ; second , because the other party is not a businessman ( see s 12(1) ( b ) ) ; and third , because the goods are not of a type ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption ( see s 12(1) ( c ) ) . |
| 13 | — The whole code rests on the authority of God , not of a king . |
| 14 | But it is dangerous insofar as the ideology may become a substitute for the tradition — the servant become the master — because politics involves ‘ the pursuit , not of a dream , or of a general principle , but of an intimation ’ . |
| 15 | When the issue is not of a split in attitudes ( " I will compete but I will also borrow and lend " ) the head is unlikely to find enthusiasm or coercion an appropriate tool of management . |
| 16 | In Freedom and Resentment ( 1974 , p. 19 ) Strawson talks not of a child 's emerging autonomy but of ‘ the progressive emergence of the child as a responsible being ’ . |
| 17 | He was a boss , not of a firm , but of his own family . |
| 18 | Marriage to Leahy had had its ups and downs , of course ; but Joan was not of a nature to play anybody false . |
| 19 | The picture which emerges is not of a remedy in rem in the sense of an initial action granted against third parties in possession of the property under trust ; instead the missio was a means of execution against third parties which was available following a normal action in personam . |
| 20 | Not of a mind already steeped in convention and tradition . |
| 21 | ‘ Besides , ’ Theda added , her eyes flashing , ‘ after the way he spoke to me , I am not of a mind to hand him gifts . ’ |
| 22 | At least , ’ she corrected herself , ‘ not of a woman who 's happy in love . |
| 23 | Such was his reputation that 2,000 people attended his funeral in Russia and one of the first statues in St Paul 's Cathedral in London was not of a sovereign , statesman or saint — but a simple , teetotal , vegetarian traveller who , as the inscription notes : |
| 24 | ‘ Mrs Goddard was the mistress of a School — not of a seminary , or an establishment , or any thing which professed , in long sentences of refined nonsense , to combine liberal acquirements with elegant morality upon new principles and new systems — and where young ladies for enormous pay might be screwed out of health and into vanity … ’ |
| 25 | Experience at home and abroad shows it to be the responsibility of the governor of an independent central bank , not of a party hack . |
| 26 | The public perception of his players is not of a group of national heroes , battling to turn the tide and restore pride . |
| 27 | Aesthetes among the novices will by now be thoroughly irritable and complaining that gardens should have as much to do with the soul as with the necessity or not of a washing line or a barbecue pit . |
| 28 | To ask a child to get dressed is a reasonable requirement of a seven-year-old but not of a two-year-old . |
| 29 | Only see one way in which we are like God is in having moral and spiritual capacities no other creature has moral and spiritual capacities , they do not of the potential to worship , they do not of a code er , er , of moral laws , they 're not governed by that , it 's a case of , of the , might makes right , it 's a case of the strongest the one that survives and the weakest goes to the wall you 've only got to look er at a litter of pups and the last one is the one that 's pushed to the back every time is n't it , there 's no moral law there , those pups and the , and the bitch does n't er work out , that because that one is weaker it should be getting more , more nourishment , it should be cared for better , it does n't work like that in any thing else , but God has placed within humanity a moral responsibility and his place within as a spiritual capacity , were more than just animals , were created in his image , so God created us , capable of knowing him and growing to be like him and in his original creation they 're in need of , the , the , the highlight of it was when he came down and communicated and talked with Adam and Eve there in the garden and shared his heart with them and there was this perfect commune between God the creator and man his creation , he never did it to any animal , he did n't go and talk to the trees and the plants perfect though they were , he never looked on any of the other creatures that he had made , wonderful though they may be , beautiful in their colouring , and go and talk with them , but he talks with Adam and he shares his heart with him his purpose is that Adam should communicate with him and walk with him and has fellowship with him , growing to be like him , but you see even though God created us like that , he did n't create us as puppets , it was n't God up in heaven pulling the strings and Adam did that and Eve did this and that was how it were , God is not a puppeteer and he made as capable of choosing good and evil , he gave us moral choices , because he made us his moral beings and so we could choose to do this and not to do that , we could choose to , to do this and to leave the other undone . |
| 30 | Only a small fraction would elude this category if we accept that , contrary to much contemporary opinion , paupers were largely made up not of a delinquent or a wilfully dependent population but of those who could not work either through incapacity or age , or who could not , in the vagaries of the labour market , find work . |