Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] but [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Louise was French and luscious , as every male in the district between the ages of fourteen and eighty-four would testify — most from wishful thinking but quite a number from experience . |
| 2 | This was not a one-off experience but rather the culmination of many experiments , much discussion and thoughtful provision of leading ideas by the teacher . |
| 3 | Staff understand the reasons for the Government and Commercial split but not the isolation of Services , in general giving rise to ‘ Cynicism and demotivation and reducing productivity . ’ |
| 4 | Orwell 's point can be extended , since these writers recognized not only the dissolution of public or social values but also the bankruptcy of private ones : it ought to be remembered that the notion of " personality " reached its apogee in Oscar Wilde during the same period of scientific and social optimism . |
| 5 | It has been argued that the communist utopia is not a scientific prediction but merely a projection of the ‘ wish-images ’ of those who adopt a Marxist position . |
| 6 | Answer guide : They have no direct effect but often the debtor is the other side of the sales entry . |
| 7 | In April 1990 the town had 28 empty offices but now the figure stands at 52 , while the number of vacant shops has risen from 20 to 46 , not including 68 shops under construction at the Cornmill centre . |
| 8 | There are a few songs but mostly the show follows the stand-up format . |
| 9 | In fact there were only a few cars but quite a number of pack mules , some horse-drawn carts and one or two carozzelle , fine horse-drawn carriages , most of which had seen better days . |
| 10 | He tried to distance the party from the question of public ownership but then the shadow Scottish secretary , Tom Clarke , acknowledged the possibility of private Scottish companies operating under a Labour government . |
| 11 | The Templeton series on district general managers confirmed the importance of this issue but also the lack of progress . |
| 12 | Thus the coastline receives not only the products of marine erosion but also the waste derived from subaerial erosion . |
| 13 | Alina smiled , with some confidence but also a lot of apprehension still , and she moved around the table toward the door . |
| 14 | My contention is that the main cause of the British predicament has not been the British economy but rather the decline of sterling and the failure of British policy to adapt to that decline … . |
| 15 | Some machinery but not the wheel still survives , in the cellar of what is now Malvern House . |
| 16 | Its most likely function would be to enable one speaker to convey not only the matter of a remark by another speaker but also the manner in which it was made . |
| 17 | Remarkably , exactly the same pattern was seen with chimpanzee DNA , indicating not only a duplication of ZNF11 genes in this ape but also a conservation of sequence at all four EcoRI sites defined in man . |
| 18 | A similar conception of the role of sociology ( though with a more ‘ radical ’ political orientation ) is held by certain contemporary sociologists who want sociology to be not simply a discipline which analyses and explains social life but rather a vehicle for changing society , a discipline committed to the extensive alteration of existing social structural arrangements . |
| 19 | Could afford a few drinks but not a meal . |
| 20 | It is an interesting idea but not a solution to the problem . |
| 21 | Concepts such as ’ semantically correct ’ and ’ semantically incorrect ’ remain somewhat contentious , and in practice are inessential to the text recognition problem : the measure of success is not found in adherence to some formal semantic proof but simply the ability to choose the same word as a human observer would . |
| 22 | The decided cases do not yet give a clear answer to this problem but presumably the retention of title clause would entitle the seller to take and re-sell such of the timber he had supplied under this contract as remained unsold and unmixed in the buyer 's possession . |
| 23 | This move towards legislation in the field of social policy that does not proceed from evidence or research by those professionals engaged in the field , but proceeds from the ideology of the political party in power , has doubtless significantly changed not only the structure of the social services but also the role of the legislative process . |
| 24 | We shall have occasion later to examine the evidence submitted to and conclusions of the Bullock Committee , and it is sufficient here to note not only the submissions from educational and public librarians but also the committee 's support for the work of librarians in schools , and its welcome for the now-emerging courses leading to people dually qualified as both teachers and librarians . |
| 25 | Grigson , writing in The Listener , was equally forthright : he found in Minton 's work interesting prose but not a poetry of interpretation . |
| 26 | Yet there were many even among his admirers who acknowledged that there were latent dangers in having the country who were certain to provide the numerically strongest contingent additionally furnishing not just the manager and assistant coach but also the captain . |
| 27 | The development of a research programme will involve not only the addition of suitable auxiliary hypotheses but also the development of adequate mathematical and experimental techniques . |
| 28 | It will be gravely libellous if he is a drunken driver but not a terrorist . |
| 29 | From the foregoing sketch one can recognize not only the features of the political culture outlined in the preceding chapter but also the convergence of those features and their interplay with the experience of history . |
| 30 | The results of these discussions , therefore , could have significant implications for authorised firms and the training needs of their members , who may well be asked to demonstrate not only their proven skills in handling such matters but also the level of their knowledge of the market and the products on offer . |