Example sentences of "[noun pl] but [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This method — if it can be properly so called — is usually applied not to the full range of candidates but to the candidates of the voter 's favourite party . |
| 2 | Very often the fossil bones may be broken in place by slight earth movements but with the pieces of bone still lined up with each other , only to fall apart during later transport or during excavation . |
| 3 | We were not concerned with the front-end 's overall ability to recognise phonemes but with the kinds of problems it presented to LA . |
| 4 | All such changes are related not only to people 's work lives but to the decisions of ( often multinational ) house building companies ; the latter increasingly investing in ‘ up-market ’ houses and retirement homes for people who have seen the value of their home rapidly increase . |
| 5 | Is it not economic nonsense that our interest rates should be dictated not by our own grave economic needs but by the interests of the German economy ? |
| 6 | Therefore , he reasoned , " a simple calculation will show that the UAE and Kuwaiti loans to Iraq were not entirely from their treasuries but from the increases in their oil revenues as a result of the drop in Iraqi oil exports over the war years " . |
| 7 | This new machine would not be characterized by the ‘ commanding ’ methods of capitalist state officials but by the routines of managers and bookkeepers , ‘ functions which are already within the capacity of the average city dweller ’ ( p. 43 ) . |
| 8 | Could it be that the stripes are intended not for the eyes of lions but for the eyes of other zebras ? |
| 9 | The equal protection cases show how important formal equality becomes when it is understood to require integrity as well as bare logical consistency , when it demands fidelity not just to rules but to the theories of fairness and justice that these rules presuppose by way of justification . |
| 10 | The contribution of the turnpikes must be measured not against the prescriptions of later ages but against the possibilities of their own . |
| 11 | Pericles , in the funeral speech attributed to him by Thucydides , was clear that a withdrawal by the citizen from public life into privacy was not acceptable : " Here each individual is interested not only in his own affairs but in the affairs of the state as well … we do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business ; we say that he has no business here at all . " |
| 12 | He believes all the right things but for no reasons at all or even for the wrong reasons . |
| 13 | This is what has made some people think that in this work the distinction between good and bad is simply arbitrary , residing not in the nature of the characters but in the needs of the plot . |
| 14 | My beliefs were based originally on the research and work of Dr Raymond Moody , Dr Ian Stevenson and others who have worked in the field of regression and reincarnation — not in the flamboyant , almost ‘ show-biz ’ , way of some earlier regressionists but in the interests of serious study of human spiritual evolvement . |
| 15 | With the first Dalek one , for example , I let Richard Martin , again a new Director , do a few episodes but under the wings of Christopher who set up the serial and so , kind of , held his hand while he eased himself into the role of Director , which was good experience for him . |
| 16 | Schools should be seen as a valuable resource , not just for their pupils but for the communities around them . |
| 17 | Bonfires are built not in people 's backyards but on the streets outside their doors . |
| 18 | The numbers were vast and this was very largely because the movies were not just appealing to sections of the masses but to the masses in general . |
| 19 | That market is the business sector who require better presented documents but without the hassles of having them professionally , is traditionally , created . |
| 20 | ‘ That study was based not on preconceived notions but on the observations of structure in the drawings themselves . |
| 21 | As the purpose of teaching is to produce a planned change in students , it is essential that those whose responsibility it is to produce the change should be clear not only about their intentions but about the assumptions on which those intentions are based . |