Example sentences of "but of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That given , the Burkian thesis must work itself out inexorably to the separation and independence not only of the great colonies ( in the original sense of that word ) but of every island and speck of rock on the globe : where there could not be representation in a common sovereign assembly , ‘ unity ’ would only be de facto and on sufference , and thus diminishing with the passage of time — organic it could never be . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll sing you a song , mates , ’ yelled back Bobby hoarsely , ‘ I 'll sing it from the roof-tops when we see an end not only of this strike but of every useless , time-wasting ; pointless strike we 've ever seen in this country in the last half-dozen years . |
| 3 | And it seems to me that this is so profoundly tragic because surely if we talk about the body of Christ there is not only a relationship of every limb and member to the head , but of every limb and member to every other limb and member . |
| 4 | Quality not only of the product but of every aspect of every job function of every service . |
| 5 | Less dramatically , but of no less threat to those concerned , the publication of even so innocuous a list as the Electoral Register can , by disclosing the addresses of those who live alone , present a distinct danger in areas where the crime rate is high . |
| 6 | However , Jones claimed to see only neutrons , and a few of those only at levels that might be interesting to science and geophysicists but of no relevance to making commercial fusion reactors . ’ |
| 7 | Alternatively it may be of great specialist interest to the readers of a particular set of publications but of no personal interest or use to the staff on those journals . |
| 8 | Not in any way connected but of no less interest and speculation are a few cup stones . |
| 9 | This is true , but of no great significance since it is easy to modify the model developed above and make it immune from this particular criticism , while ensuring that all its important features are retained . |
| 10 | Inevitably , the impression is not of unified excellence , but of a sort of march-past of British theatrical talent . |
| 11 | Often the men marry girls not only younger but of a higher social class than their own in Sylhet . |
| 12 | Both events led to controversy : fingerprints found at the assassination site were not , as claimed , those of an IRA suspect but of a detective ; Herrema 's release after a lengthy siege followed an agreement with his kidnappers , signed by Garvey but repudiated by the gardai . |
| 13 | India , which prided itself on the self-sufficiency achieved by its green revolution , was obliged to buy wheat in 1988–9 ; China 's imports of wheat reached record levels in the last years of the decade , a reflection , no doubt , not just of two years of drought but of a situation where peasants received certificates instead of cash for their crops . |
| 14 | It was useless for me to point out that the proposals were not those of the Government but of a group of advisers whose only power was to suggest . |
| 15 | It was only about a thousand words long but of a high quality . |
| 16 | But the memory of Bregawn should not be of a recalcitrant mule goaded into action as the rest of the field leaves him way behind , but of a good Cheltenham Gold Cup winner storming up the hill to head the procession of Dickinson horses which was the most remarkable training feat of modern times . |
| 17 | They were policy , but of a highly odd and experimental kind . |
| 18 | The fact that Karajan was a man of considerable good humour , with a fund of musical anecdotes and a talent for musical mimicry , does not obscure the existence of that more private self that Steiner claims to have glimpsed and which was also evident in Karajan 's long-standing preoccupation with skiing , flying , and sailing , activities not of some rich playboy , but of a person who since childhood had been uneasy with gregariousness and the urban life . |
| 19 | And truly it was no longer , as I had once thought , a matter of a star courting success by adopting the affectations of a prima donna , but of a man who has given himself up to a trance . |
| 20 | As with mangrove forests , they do not consist of a single species that happens to have exploited a particular niche , but of a whole group of species , not necessarily related to each other , each of which is adapted to the rich pickings . |
| 21 | Her hands were cupped before him in a stylised gesture which he recognised not as that of a beggar but of a supplicant , a penitent , someone reaching out for a blessing from God . |
| 22 | Whatever the outcome of the Higginson Committee 's inquiry may be , if we are to see a radical improvement in secondary education , we must learn to think not merely of a new form of examination ( and therefore presumably a novel kind of syllabus that will lead to it ) but of a wholly new approach to those studies that we wish to retain in the sixth forms at school , and how these studies are to relate to the pupils ' next step , when they leave school . |
| 23 | Whether the action was heard by a consul or by one of the praetores fideicommissarii , in either case it was not an action of the formulary system but of a kind which lay beyond that system ; the involvement of magistrates in assessing the cases was therefore known as cognitio extra ordinem . |
| 24 | A LC TV picture is made up , not of scan lines as on present TV pictures , but of a large number of picture elements or pixels . |
| 25 | The South is talking not of aid and advice , but of a new economic order , with just and equal sharing in trade , finance and technology . |
| 26 | In part this was due to the recent unification of the kingdom ; he and his successors were felt to be kings not of one but of a group of kingdoms . |
| 27 | A number of shops and boutiques had shown an interest in her clothes but she still had to produce them , innovative yet saleable , not too expensive for the market but of a good quality . |
| 28 | A good churchman , he is a Church Warden — but of a church that ceased to exist in the late 18th century . |
| 29 | Certainly they need conviction too , but of a different kind . |
| 30 | Ultrasonic waves are sound waves but of a higher frequency ( pitch ) than the human ear can hear . |