Example sentences of "but [adv] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may not be out of unwillingness but rather ignorance on the part of parents : they do not know how to go about encouraging such skills . |
| 2 | I would want to argue that if our goal is a religious situation in which women and men are accounted equals , we shall need to promote not continuity but rather discontinuity with the past . |
| 3 | The electorate , for its part , no longer votes on the basis of the calibre of the candidates , but rather votes for a programme of policies and for the party which they wish to see form a government over the next 5 years . |
| 4 | Repeated government " failure " results not only in a withdrawal of support from specific administrations by the electorate but eventually disillusionment with the institutions and processes of political democracy itself . |
| 5 | Leicester seemed out of it but remarkably seconds before the break Lee Philpott crossed from the left and found stand-in striker Steve Walsh who headed in his 7th goal in as many games since moving up front . |
| 6 | In the light of what the book is aiming to do , however , these are not criticisms , but merely reflections of the idiosyncrasies of the author which give the book its whole flavour . |
| 7 | The extension to Inch Abbey has been approved completely but only part of the Ballyduggan extension has received approval . |
| 8 | It is important to understand that it is never treatment in the abstract which can be described as ‘ extraordinary ’ , but only treatment in the context of the particular patient being cared for . |
| 9 | 19% of those who had the genuine patch managed to stay off cigarettes , but only 11% of the others . |
| 10 | The lessee was protected , not by a real action , but by a personal action against his lessor , in which he could recover , not the land itself , but only damages to the breach of his landlord 's contract to allow him the use of the land . |
| 11 | The Eco K ts-1 endonuclease was found to digest plasmid DNA at 30°C in an analogous manner to the wild type enzyme , but only 20% of the DNA is fully cleaved ( at which point no further reaction occurs ) . |
| 12 | The glare dimmed and outlines of roofs and trees and angles at street junctions , lampposts , signs , doorways , scaffolding and cranes — too molten to look up at at two in the afternoon — calmed into focus , became distinct against the astounding pure clarity of the sky , and later became so sharp and clear that looking at them was like a note you could not hear but only sense within the ear by some change in vibration . |
| 13 | There are n't enough biscuits ; you can have tea and coffee in the morning but only tea in the afternoon ; no-one knows where the switches are or how the equipment works ; and so on . |
| 14 | The single rooms also have TVs , but only washbasins in the rooms . |
| 15 | The CAP still takes up two thirds of the EC budget , but only £1 in every £3 gets through to the farmers . |
| 16 | Most respondents ( 76% ) relied on their own medical adviser to agree the protocols for purposes of payment , but only 49% of the people making these decisions had any expertise in asthma care ; 15% relied on individuals who were not trained in medicine or nursing . |
| 17 | They are now recognised as a branch of the British Conservative and Unionist Party , but only thanks to a peasants ' revolt within that party , and no thanks at all to the mandarins of Central Office . |
| 18 | Solutions to the problem of prejudice are implied , usually on the lines of ‘ more knowledge equals less prejudice ’ , but only solutions within the framework of social realism and of a liberal perspective on ‘ race ’ . |
| 19 | When the counting has been completed it is found that Party A ( together with any actual or potential allies ) has won 52% of the seats for 48% of the votes , whilst Party B ( together with any actual or potential allies ) has won 52% of the votes but only 48% of the seats . |
| 20 | COMMERCIAL fibre-optic telecommunications is barely half a decade old , but already companies in the United States are ordering massive quantities of ‘ third generation ’ equipment based on singlemode fibres . |
| 21 | But meanwhile clearance for the dam continues and the likely new environment minister , Barry Jones , says he may attempt to get a court injunction to halt work . |
| 22 | In these circumstances the courts will find that the plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence but not volens to the risk ( Owens v Brimmell [ 1977 ] QB 859 ) . |
| 23 | The as yet unnamed company will compete for contracts from high technology companies , but not ones in the computer industry because of the competition this would create with IBM . |
| 24 | The family can find forgiveness but not comprehension of a crime which it will take weeks to clear up . |
| 25 | Thus monarch in 14 has queen but not king as a synonym , whereas in 15 it has king but not queen : |
| 26 | Well that 's getting near it , but not members of the police authority who are in and should have the role of non-executive directors . |
| 27 | Ghannouchi denied the charges from Paris , telling Radio France International on May 23 that his movement had supporters but not militants inside the army and was opposed to military coups . |
| 28 | Carol Wilson , who had joined in Music Publishing and signed Sting 's songwriting to the company ( but not Sting as an artist ) had developed her own label , DinDisc , under the Virgin umbrella , which in 1980 gave the company one of its best-selling artists , Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark . |
| 29 | The Senate initially voted , on Dec. 10 , to bring Dufoix and Hervé but not Fabius before the court . |
| 30 | By accepting the jurisdiction of an external authority in domestic matters , the UK in effect converted her responsibility for the external relations of the Isle of Man into a total responsibility for its internal affairs , and abrogated by a sidewind the semi-independence of the Islands , which are under the Crown but not part of the United Kingdom . |