Example sentences of "but by [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | From Sligachan , only the northern end of a compact mass of peaks and pinnacles , linked by a high ridge of naked rock , can be seen , but by a circuitous byroad , the main climbing centre of Glen Brittle may be reached . |
| 32 | Herr Katzner , head of conservation , describes the damage as considerable , but by a miracle it was not worse . |
| 33 | All these soil-inhabiting creatures have to breathe , not with lungs like us , but by a process called diffusion through their porous skins or through special breathing pores . |
| 34 | When the dispute was eventually resolved in Cyril 's favour , it was not by the Council but by a decision of the Emperor Theodosius . |
| 35 | Western historians tend to see them as alienated intellectuals motivated not by the interests of any major section of society but by a host of heterogeneous ideas , romantic and modernizing , dictatorial and democratic . |
| 36 | So that it is a matter most essential to the liberties of this kingdom , that such members be delegated to this important trust , as are most eminent for their probity , their fortitude , and their knowledge ; for it was a known apophthegm of the great lord treasurer Burleigh , ‘ that England could never be ruined but by a Parliament ’ … |
| 37 | Even so , the grip of liberal ideas upon the law of contract is weakening , because , as I have tried to show , the legal doctrine is ultimately shaped not by fidelity to liberal precepts but by a particular scheme of distributive justice and a vision of the legitimate market order . |
| 38 | But by a remarkable stroke of fortune we were saved from falling into error . |
| 39 | The conditions under which women , particularly married women , acquire maintenance from the state are determined not by a desire to maintain their incentives to take waged work , but by a concern that they will continue their unwaged work for caring for their families . |
| 40 | The royal authority was being challenged not only by princes but by a growing menace of another kind , the increasing number of freelance soldiers , or routiers , who were gradually becoming a characteristic force in French society , reflecting the faltering grip of lawfully-established authority . |
| 41 | Jesus , one learns , is arrested in Gethsemane not by an indeterminate ‘ number of men ’ , but by a ‘ cohort ’ . |
| 42 | IT 's not only student recruiters who head for Singapore — students themselves are going , but by a more arduous route than British Airways ! |
| 43 | They were not , however , modified according to any consistent principle , but by a variety of ad hoc remedies . |
| 44 | Secondly that sanity and upright manliness are destroyed , not only by the reading of obscene stuff , but by a premature interest in sex matters , however it be excited . |
| 45 | But by a typical return , the anxiety and concern created rather than alleviated the ‘ problem ’ , for the incitement that Lyttleton so worried about was a product of middle-class obsessions themselves . |
| 46 | Warrants on shares rise and fall by approximately the same amount in pence as the share price , but by a much larger percentage of their trading price . |
| 47 | So oligarchy meant government not simply by a few , but by a few of the " rich and well-born " ; democracy was government by the many poor . |
| 48 | On this view , the exact time at which every unstable atom decayed would in fact be fully determined , but by a mechanism of which we were unaware . |
| 49 | Maternal weight increases , not simply by the weight of child and amniotic fluid and extra weight of the breasts but by a further amount of around 4 kilogrammes . |
| 50 | Well not a phantom lunatic but by a lunatic . |
| 51 | Cramlington , although a New Town , was not developed by a corporatist and appointed development corporation but by a partnership of two elected authorities ( county and district ) and two developers . |
| 52 | Easter this year is accompanied not by fluffy bunnies but by a diverse selection of far from cuddly creatures . |
| 53 | Regarding relations with the Allies he hoped to extend his government 's rights to full sovereignty , but by a policy of friendship and reconciliation rather than through the demanding style favoured by Schumacher . |
| 54 | Erhard was succeeded at the end of 1966 , not by a reconstituted CDU-FDP coalition , but by a ‘ Grand Coalition ’ of the CDU and SDP , the first time the SDP had shared in government since 1930 . |
| 55 | Viewed by many as a vain upstart , de Gaulle 's stand was in fact inspired not by ambition but by a deeply-held belief in the grandeur of France . |
| 56 | Probably they are best illustrated , not by any general theoretical terms to cover a range of occurrences , but by a detailed example . |
| 57 | Similarly , the earlier threat of Junius contains an implicit defence of monarchy : a revolution may overthrow the Hanoverians , Junius had threatened , but he then implied that the Hanoverians would be replaced , not by Jacobinism , but by a more benevolent , or weaker , monarchy . |
| 58 | Thus , it could turn out that a difference is best accounted for not by the first social variable that you quantify ( for example , social class ) , but by a second or third one ( for example , sex of speaker ) . |
| 59 | It is possible , however , that the search which then began for communal standards was prompted not only by this evident nadir of design , but by a wish to re-establish contact between the house and the community . |
| 60 | Nevertheless the conservatives who manned the Juntas were not provincial separatists : they were inspired , not merely by a vague programme of reform on a national level , but by a sense of order that forced them to see the necessity of a central government . |