Example sentences of "[noun pl] but [verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not to give freebies but to invest in the workers of the future . |
| 2 | This is one of the problems under which the law labours , because of course , if we did n't accept that it 's individual guilt that counts , and we looked to group guilt , then that in itself is an infringement of civil liberties and human rights , you are being judged not according to your acts but according to the acts of others erm with whom you happened to associate , even though your conduct may not in itself be reprehensible . |
| 3 | The shares jumped 5p to 75p on the figures but reading between the lines the group 's remaining operations are not exactly dyanmic . |
| 4 | Other Rational Dissenters held back from Priestley 's particular arguments but shared with the Priestleyans an urgent commitment to influencing moral life through advocacy of ‘ great and universally allowed principles of religion and morality … in all their boundless and beneficent application to the concerns of public and private life , of national and individual conduct , of politics , literature , art , philosophy and the condition of society ’ ( W. J. Fox ) . |
| 5 | There are stalkers ' paths but walking on the hills is discouraged in the deer-shooting season . |
| 6 | Throughout the nineteenth century , following Madame Clicquot 's inspired use of her kitchen table , wooden planks drilled with holes and supported on trestles were used for remuage , while some firms used similar planks but affixed to the walls of their cellars or caves . |
| 7 | Much of the law of the Church was not declared or made in councils but consisted of the statements or utterances of the popes which were known as decretals ( later encyclicals ) . |