Example sentences of "but of [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The war , in short , achieved little tangible reward for either side , involved death en masse , and was a war not of manoeuvre and conquest but of stalemate with little prospect of victory in the traditional sense . |
| 2 | If it were , it would not be an association of equal citizens but of members with differing status ; subjects would not be free to pursue their own purposes but would be required to perform particular roles ; government would be a matter of management rather than rule ; and government would also be provisional rather than unconditional and non-retractable . |
| 3 | However , there is evidence from hearing subjects that aphasia-producing lesions of the left hemisphere are associated with defects not just of execution but of comprehension of manual symbolic gestures ( Gainotti and Lemmo , 1976 ; Seron , Van der Kaa , Remitz and Van der Linden , 1979 ) . |
| 4 | But of course to some degree you 've got to decide what you mean by break even in the sense that er how do you actually I mean that |
| 5 | In the foregoing paragraph the pronoun ‘ he ’ was used , but of course with intent to include , mutatis mutandis , the female . |
| 6 | Er , I must apologise again for what , er the way I addressed you , but of course with all these women equality er , movements going on , I never know whether its Mr , Mrs , or Ms. Erm , now I may call on Doctor Manchago to second the motion , please . |
| 7 | And then even within two of you mentioned the European Commission , now the Commission is of course a part of what 's nown now known as the European Union erm it 's a particular branch but even within the broader framework , parts can play an important role erm within international affairs and the Commission has a particular role , not just within the European Union , but of course in international affairs generally . |
| 8 | It was , predictably , a grammar school but of course by then part of a system in the capital in which secondary modern schools ( With some novel comprehensives ) predominated . |
| 9 | Designed for the latitude of a particular place , its most important use was to determine the precise time of day or night from an observation of the altitude of the sun or one of the stars mapped on the rete , but of course by modern standards the result was not very accurate . |
| 10 | By her stand we judge them , and we see that Cordelia 's calm statement of her love for her father , her refusal to compete in extravagant adulation , was the result not of some inherent coldness but of integrity under unusual and unnatural pressure . |
| 11 | For both these reasons we need to think not in terms of individual possible worlds but of groups of possible worlds , all worlds in a group being equally close to or distant from the actual one . |
| 12 | His courageous industry earned the respect , not only of his fellow Roman Catholics , but of Christians of all denominations . |
| 13 | As the judge so rightly said , his were not merely crimes of theft but of violence against elderly people . |
| 14 | I ask that question in terms not of choice , but of equity for all children . |
| 15 | Thus , whereas for Jakobson the " poetic function " co-exists in any given utterance with the " referential function " , de Man takes the poetic function as the sole function , not only of literature , but of language in general . |