Example sentences of "but of [adj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The courts have held that the public is legitimately interested , not merely in the conduct of public officials and institutions , but of private companies whose activities affect individual members of the public . |
| 3 | With a high sense not only of justice but of dramatic effect he informed the judge that the only courses open to him were ‘ either to resign your post , or inflict on me the severest penalty if you believe that the system and law you are assisting to administer are good for the people ’ . |
| 4 | This fear of the same , or of the proximity of the same , or of the threat of the same , structures the violence not only of the homosocial , but of sexual difference itself . |
| 5 | Logic he could no doubt purvey in abundance , but of true feeling he was entirely bereft . |