Example sentences of "but [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First published in 1909 , it is used not only by the Library of Congress but widely across the United States ; since the headings are included in USMARC tapes , the list can be consulted wherever in the world MARC tapes are used . |
| 2 | In 1930 Nizan noted " I dislike the philosophy of oppressors because I feel that I have been the victim of oppression ; reconciliation with oppression does not strike me as a victory for freedom , but rather as a death sentence . " |
| 3 | A careful examination of the cocoliche corpus revealed not , as one might expect , a higher overall frequency of the non-subjunctive alternants , but rather at the discourse level an absence of appropriate contexts for the subjunctive . |
| 4 | The initial interest was not in the bibliographic data , but rather in the circulation data which was being made available to the public , thus enhancing the catalogue 's function as a finding tool . |
| 5 | Professor Blumler emphasised that although Cabinet and Shadow Cabinet Members figured prominently in much of the television coverage , with the Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition naturally to the fore ( they received 28% of the coverage on ITN 's News at Ten , but less on the review programmes and still less in regional coverage ) , ‘ Parliamentary television was nowhere merely a Neil and Maggie Show ’ . |
| 6 | I do n't think it 's gon na be possible this week but perhaps in the Easter holidays erm |
| 7 | Apart from being a guideline , and not a rigid rule , it is evidence that changes in interest rate expectations are being held , but perhaps behind the scenes approval from the Bank of England has not been forthcoming . |
| 8 | But hitherto in The Wedding Present , apart from occasional irritability , there were no major disagreements and the band 's set-up was extremely peaceable . |
| 9 | Part and parcel of both was his confrontation of the USSR on all fronts , but especially in the arms race . |
| 10 | In turn , this strong bias affects the climate of opinion in society as a whole , but especially in the labour market , where it influences employers ' personnel officers , job centre staff , and other officials and , of course , older workers themselves . |
| 11 | It was up in Europe but down in the U K. |
| 12 | Erm but down in the Rift Valley the Pocot people were a very different tribe , they wore leather , little tiny leather skirts and cowrie shells and nothing here , and it was very very hot , and they were a nomadic people who erm moved about with their animals but because , when I was there , there 'd been a very bad drought , they 'd had to erm just beg really for food . |
| 13 | In Portuguese , for example , the consonant clusters /st , sp , sk/ occur , but only with a syllable division between them /-s.p- , -s.t- , -sk-/ . |
| 14 | In this case the testator has provided for that , but only with the words acceptis centum . |
| 15 | In fact it took a revolutionary medical technique for Ian to be able to play again , but only for the Palace Reserves , for the first team were , at that time at least , more than holding their own in Division One . |
| 16 | The Act does not apply to all party floors but only to a floor partition which separates buildings or parts of buildings approached solely by separate staircases or entrances from without ( London Building Acts ( Amendment ) Act 1939 , s4 ) . |
| 17 | Scientists predicted that solitons should be very mobile , but only along the polymer chains . |
| 18 | Indeed , I worship the little devil , but only as a travelling companion . |
| 19 | Rodney James Chapman , a director of the company , asked an industrial tribunal to lift the prohibition notice , but the tribunal upheld it except for a small area where the quarry might be worked but only under a safety system agreed by and worked out with the Inspectorate . |
| 20 | A hire-purchase agreement which is not properly executed can not be enforced by the sellers ' recapturing the item but only by a court order . |
| 21 | In Hereford and Worcestershire , Conservatives control education decisions , but only by the casting vote of the chairman , and HE 'S standing for re-election as an independent in the county elections , because he 's unhappy about |
| 22 | JOHNNY MARR and Morrissey , the brains and the looks behind the late , lamented Smiths , are back together again — but only in a design studio . |
| 23 | She wanted both of these to some extent but only in a police force whose integrity she could believe in . |
| 24 | Nationalists had also called a one-day general strike for Oct. 1 against the proposed new union treaty , but only in the West Ukraine did this attract anything more than patchy support . |
| 25 | Conservative ideologists had had much to say about the case for bringing market conditions more effectively to bear upon the distribution of social services , but only in the housing field had Conservative governments taken steps that represented major responses to this viewpoint . |
| 26 | By this time , I think the fact that Prost was not only good , but better in the results department , was the least of Niki 's worries . |
| 27 | But already on the Sunday Baldwin had seen Stamfordham : ‘ He had appealed , ’ he told the King 's Private Secretary , ‘ to the people to trust him , as in 1924 , and they had refused . |
| 28 | But already at the time Attlee was speaking the situation was changing again . |
| 29 | The eyes of the world may be on Microsoft Corp Windows NT , but over at the IBM booth they are pulling out all the stops to show that OS/2 is far from dead . |
| 30 | The eyes of the world may have been on Microsoft Corp Windows NT , but over at the IBM booth they were pulling out all the stops to show that OS/2 is far from dead . |