Example sentences of "[art] [adj] but [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the beginning of his term as General Secretary , Brezhnev had been seen as a leader pursuing the art of the possible but by the end of his life , his leadership was seen , more pointedly , as the avoidance of the necessary . |
| 2 | This is necessary not only for the individual but for the development of society . |
| 3 | Numbers will increase gradually from the mid-1990s but by the turn of the century they will still be below current levels . |
| 4 | The EAT did not look at the offer of new terms in the abstract but in the light of the company 's financial difficulties . |
| 5 | A recent case on settlorship is Butler v Wilden 61 TC 666 where shares in effectively a shell company were placed into the names of two children who paid the appropriate price for the same but with the company being built up by two brothers Graham and Gary . |
| 6 | That Alex Wyllie , the grizzled New Zealand coach , regards this as the All Blacks ' most important tour since the Cup is a tribute not to the Welsh but to the necessity of bringing through the next generation of players . |
| 7 | Woosnam only had an eight iron to the green but with a target just 49 feet wide , the difficulty lay in keeping the ball on the green . |
| 8 | The initmate scenes she interrogates purport to represent the normal and the everyday but in the selection process she has constructed a cogent version of her ‘ family ’ , aimed at a particular art audience . |
| 9 | God is not God of the dead but of the living ( Mark 12:27 ) . |
| 10 | He gave £50 million , which of course made an immense difference to life at the National Gallery , not only in the 1980s but for the future . |
| 11 | And just back to football , the South Midland premier division ; Thame United retain their lead at the top of the table with a narrow but in the end , comfortable victory at Langford this afternoon . |
| 12 | ‘ We are aiming not at the elaboration of a few but at the erection of many temples or houses of our Lord ’ and therefore ‘ cheapness in the construction of each is indispensable to success ’ and Gothic chapels need not be expensive . |
| 13 | When the Newcastle goalkeeper rose to his feet after treatment , Mr Jones chose to re-start play not with a free-kick but with a drop-ball inside the penalty area . |
| 14 | The Playboys , written by Shane Connaughton who scripted My Left Foot , is a slow-burner but worth the wait as Finney 's emotions are fanned to such a fervour that we suspect he is going to do something regrettable . |
| 15 | But resemblance can not explain how a thinker could experience one object as standing for another ; for how could the fact that a particular datum is similar to other things mean anything to a thinker unless he experienced it as being like many others — that is , unless he grasped it , not just as a particular but as an instance of a kind ? |
| 16 | if the return to Conservatism is to be something more than the transient apparition of a spectre from the past , and its voice in national affairs not merely to be a sepulchral warning against the dangers of rash courses , the Conservative leaders must bestir themselves to some purpose … [ the Conservative Party ] must be ready to meet the programme of the Labour Party not simply with a non-possumus but with an alternative which will in some measure satisfy certain of the needs which Labour is concerned to satisfy , and at the same time avoid the perils with which it insists Labour policy is beset . |
| 17 | Its difficult to go beyond normal scepticism and see this huge number not just as a potential but as a reality . ’ |
| 18 | It is obviously important that we should have some clear idea about the nature of the phenomenon as an aspect of language not just as a preliminary but as a prerequisite for determining how it should figure in pedagogy . |
| 19 | Direction is determined not by an objective but by the nature of the organisation and the field in which it operates . |