Example sentences of "but [prep] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The suggestion made was that it was not about economic development , but about buying off the nationalist community . |
| 2 | He picked it up crossly , but after listening for a few moments , his expression softened and he nodded twice . |
| 3 | So his lack of faith was not a matter of failing to straddle an impossible credibility gap , but of baulking at a simple step of trust on the evidence of inescapable reasons . |
| 4 | But despite leading after the first round with a 71 he failed to make the four-round cut . |
| 5 | There is little in this which is peculiar to a solicitors ' partnership dispute but with regard to the last noted remedy the court recognises the great and possibly irreparable harm that could be done by appointing a receiver over a professional firm and may be reluctant to make such an order at the behest of one disaffected partner ( see Floydd v Cheney [ 1970 ] Ch 602 and Sobell v Boston [ 1975 ] 1 WLR 1587 ) . |
| 6 | On issues like this Coetzee 's sensitivity and grasp of detail are shown to good effect : but with regard to the broader historical significance of these organizations he is less assured , and he leaves untouched some of the more important questions raised by his work . |
| 7 | Now that the education and library boards independently assess the formula according to which they delegate budgets to schools , does not the Minister fear that a great disparity in provision will result — not only in regard to pupil-teacher ratios , but in regard to every other aspect of provision across the different area boards ? |
| 8 | But in moving to a second order analysis they looked at the relations between groups of signs in discursive systems . |
| 9 | But before looking at the two most important examples of planning for peace , the Beveridge Report and the Butler Education Act of 1944 , it is important to note a number of ways in which peacetime policy changes were foreshadowed by ad hoc wartime measures . |
| 10 | But before turning to the central question of what ideals men and women should adopt , it is worth speculating a little about what it is that causes these observable differences of moral outlook . |
| 11 | This should n't be less than 225mm , but before deciding on a firm measurement , the same calculation should be applied to the vertical measurement , between the highest and lowest points . |
| 12 | That applies not only to a decision but to appearing under an appellate process . |
| 13 | This does not mean that the intellectual therefore nihilistically celebrates dispersion , fragmentation or relativity : rather she or he is the person who , facing such dispersion but without conceding to the nostalgic desire for totalization , poses the questions and constitutes the series and continuities for analysis — and thus for transformation — while attempting to respect its heterogeneity . |
| 14 | In past meetings between these sides , the top British goalscorer in 1991 and ‘ 92 , Scott Gough , has grabbed more of the attention , but since flopping in a brief spell at Chelmsford , his form has slipped considerably . |
| 15 | We can appreciate one reason for this if we examine the question , not from the viewpoint of symptoms used to try to distinguish schizophrenia from affective psychosis , but by looking at the underlying psychological processes that are responsible for the two states . |
| 16 | Notice that , although I have just summarized some of the teacher 's predicament that I described in Chapter 2 , we have arrived at the summary by a different route : not by reporting what people say , but by looking at the inevitable consequences of working in a demanding situation . |
| 17 | This is best explained , not by suggesting that they do not have interests in common or that they are satisfied with things as they are , but by attending to the crushing significance of those ideas in society which preach that to be poor is an individual 's own fault and reflects his or her lack of preparedness to study and train , to work hard , to postpone having a family , or what have you . |
| 18 | The tsar was personally reassured by the kaiser but by adding to the shadowy Dreikaiserbund a special relationship with Austria-Hungary , Bismarck had begun the slow elaboration of alliances which were to divide Europe more and more down to 1914 . |
| 19 | But by focusing on a particular selection of empirical evidence , the book seems to shift the blame from the poor and the underclass to women and to their lack of available , acceptable marriage partners . |
| 20 | Such activities need to be researched for accuracy but by focusing on a different type of outcome greater enthusiasm can be engendered . |
| 21 | But by starting at the other end , |