Example sentences of "[noun pl] but [adv] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact there were only a few cars but quite a number of pack mules , some horse-drawn carts and one or two carozzelle , fine horse-drawn carriages , most of which had seen better days . |
| 2 | The development of a research programme will involve not only the addition of suitable auxiliary hypotheses but also the development of adequate mathematical and experimental techniques . |
| 3 | Thus , we need to know not just the shape of the pre- and post-distributions but also the location of families within the distributions . |
| 4 | He had plenty of acquaintances but just a couple of friends — Swayne , the stamp man , and Doble , the wine merchant . |
| 5 | The head bears not only the senses but also the machinery for integrating information and organizing appropriate responses . |
| 6 | The results of these discussions , therefore , could have significant implications for authorised firms and the training needs of their members , who may well be asked to demonstrate not only their proven skills in handling such matters but also the level of their knowledge of the market and the products on offer . |
| 7 | If the EEC is to compete in post-GATT world markets , it is not the number of farmers which matters but rather the quality of their output . |
| 8 | The lectures of the former and the associations of the latter appeared to be serving not only academic and economic purposes but also the promotion of political instability . |
| 9 | Reports say they will bid £8 million to buy out Swales , chairman for 20 years but now the subject of a concerted hate campaign by supporters following the sacking of manager Peter Reid . |
| 10 | Looking at Durham Cathedral , the Cardinal pointed out that the Church is not just concerned with beautiful buildings but also the dignity of the individual — ‘ I think we ought to be inspired by those saints of Anglo-Saxon England , to do in our day what they did in theirs . |
| 11 | Oxford and Somerville produce both at present , to the advantage not only of individuals but also the country as a whole . |
| 12 | An evident aim of the right wing is not merely the intimidation of individuals but also the discrediting of the two major independent universities as educational institutions . |
| 13 | He was a good father , strict at times but also a bit of a softie . |
| 14 | However unpopular such a measure might at first appear , the long experience of the commissioners had shown them not only the inefficacy in most cases but also the cruelty of issuing executions against the goods of defendants — ‘ as regards the wives and children of debtors by selling their beds from under them , and the expense and oppression attending the levy ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | At the end of the debate on the document , the Institute 's Council did not endorse the proposals but only the publication of the report for consultation purposes . |
| 17 | Orwell 's point can be extended , since these writers recognized not only the dissolution of public or social values but also the bankruptcy of private ones : it ought to be remembered that the notion of " personality " reached its apogee in Oscar Wilde during the same period of scientific and social optimism . |
| 18 | Among this generation was Ralph Hengham to whom are attributed not only two short legal treatises but also the initiative for much of Edward 's legislation . |
| 19 | The Hooker collection charts not only the claims of obsolete products but also the swell of public sentiment during two world wars , as well as some prize not-in-front-of-the-children examples of publicans ' ribaldry . |
| 20 | ( 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 . ) |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Central government did not seek to affect merely spending priorities but also the manner in which services were provided . |
| 23 | Struggles and strategies in the fields have at stake not just the value of symbolic goods but also the degree of autonomy of a given field . |
| 24 | This demonstrates not only a continuing uncertainty about the precise objectives but also a change in emphasis away from the provision of courses towards other forms of dissemination , of which more will be said below . |
| 25 | The major management concern according to Peters is not a concern with techniques but rather a concern with people , and with the division between management and non-management . |
| 26 | The apparently fragmented organization of the state apparatus represents not polyarchic pressures but rather the outcome of intra-state conflicts or the deliberate fragmentation and disorganisation of policy-making by state officials . |
| 27 | He did n't want answers but only the pleasure of his own voice . |
| 28 | This means you must practise not only individual sentences but also the use of these sentences in larger contexts . |
| 29 | The rules cover not only cash payments but also the settlement of household bills . |
| 30 | This wording is defective because it ignores the fact that the register is not just a register of members but also a register of shareholdings and that a likely error is in the amount of a member 's shareholding . |