Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] but [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Nothing to do with mice or holes but probably a corruption of the Cornish Moweshayl , young women 's river — perhaps where they did their washing . ) |
| 2 | ‘ The rights deriving from the above-mentioned provisions of the Treaty include not only the rights of establishment and of participation in the capital of companies or firms but also the right to pursue an economic activity , as the case may be through a company , under the conditions laid down by the legislation of the country of establishment for its own nationals . |
| 3 | Those may or may not lead to training or jobs but once a person registers for an interview they are taken off the jobless total . |
| 4 | The stimulus of individual and group recovery and of working in the professional field of addictive disease and recovery is that each new discovery brings not only its own understanding and rewards but also the promise of more . |
| 5 | We must consider here not only subject-specific knowledge and skills but also the child 's general personal and social development , for which every teacher is responsible . |
| 6 | In political systems where there is free electoral competition between political parties for power , ‘ one might expect to find a connection not only between individual papers and parties but also a correspondence , or parallelism , between the range of papers and the range of parties ’ . |
| 7 | You see , they might have enough for that first barrel load of bricks , and the first bag of cement and sand but perhaps the money will run out shortly after that ? |
| 8 | Thus , we need to know not just the shape of the pre- and post-distributions but also the location of families within the distributions . |
| 9 | A responsibility chart can indicate not only decisions and duties but also the information needed to discharge these duties ( Table 1 . |
| 10 | It became necessary to review not only police training and equipment but also the law . |
| 11 | Prokofiev used several leitmotifs in the same way in his score fur Romeo and Juliet where they heighten not only the emotional involvement of the hero and heroine but also the conflict between the warring Montagues and Capulets ( see page 26 ) . |
| 12 | I suppose I should have been paying attention to the old artist , when he was telling me that the thing had to be carried in near-vacuum with traces of helium and neon but definitely no oxygen , which would destroy it . |
| 13 | This will involve not only matters of professional competence and etiquette but also the need to ensure compliance with regulations regarding replacement of practising certificates , the annual delivery of certificates to the Solicitors Indemnity Fund and obtaining all other licences and authorisations relevant to the work of the firm . |
| 14 | At frieze-level there are not triglyphs and metopes but usually a row of small , close-set blocks , dentils , which offer no field for figure-carving . |
| 15 | By the closing weeks of 1987 the population of the occupied territories had concluded that they faced not only the prevarication of Israel and Jordan but also the acquiescence of the other Arab states . |
| 16 | Broadcasting policy involved not only state-controlled or public service radio and television but also the cinema , the press and advertising : the state aided financially , partly regulated , and even owned film studios , newspapers and advertising agencies — but , since the Liberation , the mentality in all three was worlds removed from the bureaucratic tradition of state broadcasting . |
| 17 | Until recently the products were confined to America and Europe but now the drive is on to spread the word in the Far East and Middle East . |
| 18 | For while it was happy for the advisory team to devise policies which went into considerable detail about aspects of classroom practice which are surely for schools and teachers to determine , it remained relatively aloof from one area of school life — home-school links-where policy might usefully and helpfully have stipulated not just goals and commitments but also a range of procedures from which schools could choose . |
| 19 | This procedure acknowledged not only the interdependence of church and realm but also the weakness of excommunication as a sanction unless it were backed by secular coercion . |
| 20 | For Carmody , this record is a diary of girls , girls , girls and irrepressible nights on the town , a record not just of the agony and ecstasy but also the anarchy and the intimacy , all poured into classic American pop moulds that also manages to avoid any mindless boogie charges by the empathy in his songwriting . |
| 21 | This starts out as sensible cost-saving and value.engineering but imperceptibly the boundary is crossed arid we enter the realm of skimping . |
| 22 | With a slash of knife , the hospital , the prison — he had many names for the school where he was both patient and prisoner but never a pupil — comes slithering into his mind . |
| 23 | Here were not only class tensions and antagonisms but also the yearning — ‘ that united wail ’ — for a different form of social relations which would link all women . |
| 24 | This is because … the process of development involves not only the production of more goods and services but also the transformation of the society itself , including the establishment of new institutions , social systems , rules and values . |
| 25 | The defendants argued , inter alia , that there was no reliance on the seller 's skill and judgment but rather a reliance by the buyer on his own understanding of the manufacturer 's instructions . |