Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] but [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dockers even today , see they 're still got the , still got the erm National Dock Labour Board but now the employers wan na do away with it . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Templeton series on district general managers confirmed the importance of this issue but also the lack of progress . |
| 9 | Thus the coastline receives not only the products of marine erosion but also the waste derived from subaerial erosion . |
| 10 | Alina smiled , with some confidence but also a lot of apprehension still , and she moved around the table toward the door . |
| 11 | 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 … . |
| 12 | Some machinery but not the wheel still survives , in the cellar of what is now Malvern House . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It is an interesting idea but not a solution to the problem . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Grigson , writing in The Listener , was equally forthright : he found in Minton 's work interesting prose but not a poetry of interpretation . |
| 20 | ‘ As you can imagine it has been total panic but fortunately the suppliers have been very co-operative and we will be ready . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It will be gravely libellous if he is a drunken driver but not a terrorist . |
| 23 | c ) How many liked popcorn but not the sneakers . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Not only is each person 's recovery a highly individual process but also the ideas and techniques of individual recovery , group processes and treatment centre programmes are all continuingly and progressively evolving . |
| 26 | Through learning , children acquire not only their parents ' moral code but also a willingness to act in accordance with the rules . |
| 27 | The end results will not only create a higher standard of competence within the company directly related to each person 's individual role but also an enhancement and enrichment of that person 's own development and personal qualification . |
| 28 | Such an alliance was popular with many back benchers:James Hope , lately Chairman of Ways and Means , suggested , ‘ a composite Government but not a coalition . |
| 29 | A recruit of eighteen years old was unthinkable ; he would become a puissant man but only a runt among his superhuman peers . |
| 30 | Lastly , after government , the administration , military and judiciary , a fifth element of the system can be identified which Miliband ( 1969 ) calls the various units of sub-government — in a sense the extension of central government but also a voice of the periphery , and thus a channel of communication between the two . |