Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] but [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relative lack of progress in developing and disseminating models of good practice , including assessment , with older people and their families is a reflection in part of their relatively low status within professional and organizational cultures , not only within social work but also in medicine , education , and academic disciplines . |
| 2 | Fly fishing which is also done in fresh water but sometimes in saltwater . |
| 3 | The " dress of thought " metaphor retains some appropriacy but only by virtue of an impression , difficult to justify , that the formal tail is wagging the semantic dog . |
| 4 | A complete task description is impossible and the appropriate preparation for the operator is not in direct training but rather in education/understanding of the system and the way it operates . |
| 5 | Analysis at this level of detail is not usually attempted by direct observation but rather by film or video analysis . |
| 6 | This has a clear relationship with Pius XI 's teaching , eight years earlier on the same subject : ‘ the very fountainhead from which the State draws its life , namely , wedlock and the family ’ ( 1929 : 14 ) , and with the dispositions of the then current Code of Canon Law which had come into effect in 1917 : ‘ The marriage of baptized persons is governed not only by divine law but also by church law . |
| 7 | Tasks , leading into programmes , will be arranged against the reference of the framework , varying infinitely in depth or extent , contributing no only to localised progress but also as part of the whole Northern interest . |
| 8 | The parents of such a pupil would pay a substantial fee to his instructor , who would benefit not only from the additional income but also from assistance with his patients . |
| 9 | In this second case a person was less aware of the actual stimulus but quickly in tune with his own associations and what he could ‘ read between the lines ’ . |
| 10 | It also remains the case that the Cabinet , as an institution , does not rest on parliamentary authority but rather on practice developed over the centuries . |
| 11 | The farmers use the fields on the better-drained soils of the drumlin hillsides normally for sown grass but sometimes for barley or potatoes , especially where the clay is mixed with sand . |
| 12 | The meeting at Münchengrätz in 1833 had increased his confidence not only vis-à-vis the Ottoman Empire but also in respect of the West , for Austria and Russia ( and subsequently Prussia ) had agreed not only to maintain the integrity of the Sultan 's possessions , but also to guarantee each other 's Polish territories and to assist any established regime which found itself threatened by insurgents . |
| 13 | Elections were held to ( i ) the 430-seat People 's Great Hural , hitherto the legislative body but now in effect an " upper house " with reduced powers ; ( ii ) all 53 seats in the Little Hural , the newly created standing legislature ( not one-quarter of the seats as first laid down — see p. 37454 ) ; and ( iii ) municipal and provisional People 's Hurals . |
| 14 | At Level Two students will devise and undertake a programme of leisure and recreation activities , operating on a largely independent basis but still under supervision from appropriate staff . |
| 15 | They will be needed not only to compile the initial list but also for reference purposes . |
| 16 | Bath regained it with Fallon 's first try but just on half-time Smith kicked another goal when Clarke was penalised at a ruck . |
| 17 | As it was , Lili chatted easily and Robert timed his eating to synchronise with her fluency ; when Lili stopped talking to eat he carried on , not in the same vein but sufficiently in harmony with her style not to upset the balance of conviviality . |
| 18 | The surplus product is controlled by the bureaucracy partly for their own benefit but mainly in response to demands from society which it would be politically dangerous to ignore . |
| 19 | Kingdon ( 1958b ) produced a detailed survey of stress tendencies in a corpus of many thousands of words ; the analysis is based not only on phonological structure but also on etymology and morphology . |
| 20 | In this case , exactly as one would expect , the adjective is acceptable in predicative position but only on condition that it bears the meaning it has as a non-separative . |
| 21 | If in the year in which the benefit is given to the taxpayer the amount of the relevant income is less than the amount of the benefit then the individual is only taxed on the amount of the relevant income but in subsequent years he can be further charged if there is further relevant income but never in excess of the amount of the benefit ( s740(2) ) . |
| 22 | The NT is obviously interested in new talent but also in staying power — track record in sustainment , as indeed they should . |
| 23 | Fraser Darling and Morton Boyd 's The Highlands and Islands is a highly readable earlier study of Highland ecology ( Collins New Naturalist but also in paperback ) which I 'd make compulsory reading for every climber and hillwalker . |
| 24 | By and large , these directors do not deal on information generated by the financial conglomerate but rather on information acquired by the financial conglomerate . |
| 25 | A few even show pyrethroid resistance but only by virtue of their pre-existing resistance to DDT . |
| 26 | I stayed in bed for the next twenty-four hours , sleeping , drinking a little water , not eating at all , and only rousing myself when Gav arrived back ( from his parents ' , I wrongly assumed ) , loudly declaring himself to be of unsound liver but totally in love . |