Example sentences of "but by an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such people are not all motivated simply by money , but by an interest in building and in architecture and , like everyone else , they have to live with their creations . |
| 2 | FROM the top of the dome of St Paul 's Cathedral the view is no longer dominated by City church steeples but by an intrusive cacophony of drab , characterless Sixties boxes . |
| 3 | But by an overwhelming majority on a show of hands vote , party representatives demanded it reconsider the decision at the earliest possible opportunity . |
| 4 | Much of Morton 's expansion in Europe has been achieved by acquisition , and these companies are being integrated not by imposing a monolithic European headquarters , but by an operating group taking responsibility for that product throughout Europe . |
| 5 | We are guided not by fears and desires , but by an inner knowledge that is ours by right of battle . |
| 6 | But by an expensive , slow and very laborious liming , composting and cover-cropping , he has established a natural cycle which no longer requires topping up with nutrients . |
| 7 | collective bargaining is not typically concluded by a contract , specifying in detail the future rights and duties of either side but by an understanding [ which ] must depend on personal relationships and customary usages . |
| 8 | Americans knew far too much about the reality of strikes to accept a film in which , in the words of James Shelley Hamilton , ‘ the trouble arises not from working conditions but from a professional trouble-maker and is solved not according to any principles but by an act of sheer moronic terrorism ’ . |
| 9 | First to the summit , but by an easier route , was A.W . |
| 10 | Work with teachers and students producing materials of their own is a very important part of resource provision , and librarianship training is less sufficient here ( but see " Production : one mode of acquisition ; in Chapter 6 ) Equally , question 5 is properly best answered , neither by a librarian nor by an ILEA media resource officer , but by an experienced teacher with a leadership role in curriculum development and methodology . |
| 11 | This upward movement in the social hierarchy by many working-class boys ( significantly none of the studies has looked at girls ) has not been achieved at the expense of the opportunities of children from middle-class backgrounds , but by an explosion in the number of middle-class jobs — or an expansion in the service class or the salariat . |
| 12 | We venture into public life protected not so much by the sanctions of formal law but by an unwritten charter of civil rights which assigns us both access to and independence from others with whom we come into contact . |
| 13 | But by an extension of remedies and a flexible procedure it can be said that something resembling a system of public law is being developed . |
| 14 | I was trapped , not only by the ordering of the caterers , the priest and my mother 's new hat , but by an impotence of spirit . |
| 15 | The 5 km offset of the centre of figure from the centre of mass need not be explained by a change in crust thickness from 50 km on the near side to 75 km on the far side , but by an asymmetry spread over a greater depth and consequently slight on a global scale . |
| 16 | Now imagine the same boundary maintained under the same forces and displacements not by the real continuum but by an arbitrary network of " finite elements ' in each of which we consider only the forces and displacements at their junctions , or " nodes ' . |
| 17 | If there is a particular liability that is causing concern which has been identified prior to contract but is not precisely quantifiable , it may be appropriate that it should not be covered by a warranty at all but by an indemnity or other specific provision . |
| 18 | the Guardian of March 1 reported that at a meeting between the government and members of the opposition in Jeddah , Saudi Arabia , angry debate had erupted over demands by the opposition that martial law be declared not by the government in exile , but by an emergency national unity government reflecting various political views . |
| 19 | In eleven of Cnut 's grants the Latin introduction to the boundaries is followed not by the first set of bounds but by an introduction in Anglo-Saxon . |