Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] but [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the explanatory power and potential planning applicability of geographic theory does not depend on the employed and usually specified spatial axioms but rather on the unspecified axioms about individual and group behaviour . |
| 2 | This is reflected at both ends of the settlement hierarchy in Table 4.4 , not only in the reduction in the growth rate of the remoter , mainly rural districts but also in the marked fall in the rate of population loss estimated for Greater London and the principal cities of the Metropolitan Counties . |
| 3 | The rights incorporated into the private key , then , depend not only on the lawful acquisition of the private key but also upon the text of the carrier 's valid receipt message . |
| 4 | Hillary was acclaimed not only as a born writer but also as a representative of the doomed youth of his generation , although in his constant self-analysis he was in fact a most untypical British fighter pilot of 1940 . |
| 5 | It was all very well to make brave plans but here in the presence of this brooding giant , courage ebbed away . |
| 6 | The NHS relies on cross-subsidisation , not just between high-risk and low-risk groups but also for every individual between their low-risk years ( young and middle aged ) and high-risk years ( old age ) . |
| 7 | The concept of quality of life of older people , particularly in residential settings but also in the community , has been the subject of considerable research and academic interest ( e.g. Hughes , 1990 ) and has also been developed considerably for application in inspection and quality assurance procedures ( e.g. Sinclair and Gibb , 1990 ; DoH , 1989c ) . |
| 8 | SMALL BUSINESSES are doubly hit by the recession , not only from its direct effects but also from the appalling way that bigger companies delay paying their bills . |
| 9 | It is true that employee numbers have been reduced by around an eighth over the last few years but only as a by-product of the printer 's massive £130m capital investment programme . |
| 10 | Leaflet SB1 , which is obtainable not only from the Department of Health and Social Security but also from the Post Office , incorporates an application form , and there is also an application form in the back of every State retirement pension book . |
| 11 | As it is , the magnitude and direction of laterality effects vary not only between different subjects and different experiments but also within the same subject at different stages within an experiment ( e.g. Hellige " , 1976 ; Shefsky , Stenson and Miller , 1981 ) . |
| 12 | Within that report he tells us erm , the rather startling disturbance story , that in fact it almost suggests , has been suggested the revolution has n't happened because the situation has continued as before with a different name but basically with the same er with the same kind of programme intact . |
| 13 | Not only did the rival theorists of the pre-science period disagree over fundamental theoretical assumptions but also over the kinds of observational phenomena that were relevant to their theories . |
| 14 | Laski himself led the way not only in general theoretical orientation but also in the detailed study . |
| 15 | The next day , there was some development but only on the Scots side . |
| 16 | Thomas and Mungham show how the duty solicitor scheme was created and evolved , ostensibly as an act of public service but chiefly as a significant part of the struggle by outsiders to break into the cartel . |
| 17 | I do n't think it 's gon na be possible this week but perhaps in the Easter holidays erm |
| 18 | The difficulty is , is that there also needs to be some work done to evaluate alternatives , because clearly there is widespread concern about outbreak of er , sheep scab , not only in this area but indeed across the country . |
| 19 | From the beginning of the classical period large bronzes were regularly cast in sections , which is impossible in the direct method but easy in the indirect . |
| 20 | Practitioners gradually became aware of the extent of the problems created not only by this approach but also by the inability of any Latin American country to recognise a United States judgment given after service had been effected by post on a defendant resident in such a country . |
| 21 | The first session of the Consultative Council ( announced in November 1990 — see p. 37873 ) opened on Jan. 5 , when its Speaker Sheikh Abdullah bin Ali al-Qatabi said that the council heralded a new era of joint national action ; the 59-member council would draft policy proposals for economic and social legislation but only in an advisory capacity . |
| 22 | They may intervene in the work of some departments but only at the cost of neglecting broad strategy and the work of others . |
| 23 | There exist performer-composers not only in oral cultures and in recorded popular music but also in the traditions of notated music ( Liszt , Paganini , not to mention Scott Joplin and Jelly Roll Morton ) . |
| 24 | We 've managed to avoid the use of overtime we have tried our best to ensure a decent supply of social housing but always against the odds , always against the tide of what is going on in our economy and in the housing situa in the housing market . |
| 25 | The Court , and by extension Paris , would become the focus of all Europe , and even for the whole civilized world , for the Emperor , conscious of the huge changes in the speed and ease of travel which were taking place , foresaw an influx of visitors not just from the Old World but also from the New . |
| 26 | The prayers recommended before the consecration are for the spiritual welfare of all estates and conditions of men in terms of a literal and spiritual harvest which not only ensures their survival in this world but also in the next . |
| 27 | Thus , for example , children 's achievement may be related not only to their own social background but also to the social background of their classroom , characteristics of the school , etc . |
| 28 | This is done in Appendix C , but to anticipate briefly , the reasons depend in essence on two facts : ( a ) Whenever a property is qualified it remains a property , so that e.g. ( P P ) P reduces to P P ; ( b ) The property of an adjective can not normally be applied to another property-word but only to an E. Thus while ( P E ) P reduces from a purely structural point of view to P P , it needs to be treated as a distinct pattern when the final P is an adjective , since , unless the E can be taken into account , the structure will be literally incoherent . |
| 29 | Participant observation , for example , although it developed more or less outside of any strong theoretical tradition but simply as a way of getting research of a particularly descriptive kind done , in sociology has come to be closely associated with the symbolic interactionist tradition . |
| 30 | Because most F.L. teachers have been concerned in their own learning almost exclusively with written language , it is necessary to treat this topic separately and relate it not only to the foreign language but also to the mother tongue . |