Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] but [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above all , the reader is led into the inevitable decline from triumph to despair not by authorial direction but obliquely through Judd 's halting attempt to understand what has happened . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Fly fishing which is also done in fresh water but sometimes in saltwater . |
| 4 | Dr Anthony Ayles , of the Hermitage Group practice in Edinburgh , is one of several GPs who offer this service but only to patients he considers are at risk from heart disease — those with a close relative who developed coronary problems before 50 , those who smoke , have high blood pressure , are overweight , diabetic or take little exercise . |
| 5 | It is possible to challenge an appeal decision in the High Court but only on grounds of an error of law , of a defect in the procedure or of the decision being one which no reasonable Secretary of State could have made . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It includes recent reviews of the school in the shape not only of self- evaluation but also of inspections and reports by the local authority and by HMI . |
| 9 | The national clearinghouses co-operate to some extent but largely through exchanges of information and teaching material . |
| 10 | Analysis at this level of detail is not usually attempted by direct observation but rather by film or video analysis . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Independence was thus a two-way phenomenon ; local parties should be independent not only of central direction but also of individuals . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Different questions may vary not only in terms of verbal or spatial content but also in terms of degree of interest , emotion or imagery aroused in a subject . |
| 19 | Well he certainly meant this , a lethal finisher but fortunately for Southend nobody seems to have caught on yet . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | One senior representative of an existing cash & carry said that MAKRO will ‘ obviously pose a threat ’ , not only to that trade but also to supermarkets , which will be hit by trade being diverted into the MARKO ‘ discounting ’ — through holding one of the membership passports . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | They will be needed not only to compile the initial list but also for reference purposes . |
| 25 | Certainly following the far-flung effects of the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in 1986 , the health hazards associated with nuclear products have been highlighted , not only for employees and people in the immediate environs of a nuclear plant but also for people and terrain far distant from the scene of the nuclear leak . |
| 26 | Therefore public transport policy for rural areas requires very careful evaluation , not only in terms of economic viability but also in terms of the social impact of reducing services . |
| 27 | Bath regained it with Fallon 's first try but just on half-time Smith kicked another goal when Clarke was penalised at a ruck . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Not merely did he claim to present to livings retrospectively in his own reign but even to vacancies which had occurred sede vacante in his father 's reign ! |