Example sentences of "but [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their outstanding feature is the conduct of negotiations , not initially through the individual trade unions and employers ' associations themselves but rather via the central confederations to which they are affiliated . |
| 2 | the explanatory power and potential planning applicability of geographic theory does not depend on the employed and usually specified spatial axioms but rather on the unspecified axioms about individual and group behaviour . |
| 3 | In this section we are not so much concerned with how many pounds are ‘ in the pay packet ’ , i.e. what is earned , but rather with the general conditions of employment experienced by the manual and non-manual sectors . |
| 4 | But right for the wrong reasons . |
| 5 | But together with the other matters , it raises the possibility that she may never have known Daniel at all . ’ |
| 6 | The opposite view , with the fine back , is good too , but in between the extended limbs telescope awkwardly though the full-face is splendid . |
| 7 | But along with the miniature conifers come miniature hitch-hikers . |
| 8 | I am prepared to argue that doing business involves , even at the lower levels in an organization but especially at the higher levels of management , semantic problem-solving ; for example , agreeing on boundaries , identifying individuals , establishing and maintaining classifications , conjecturing ways of doing things that belong in no existing formal schema . |
| 9 | I would like to thank you all for your presence — in both senses of the word , but especially for the smiling faces I see in front of me . |
| 10 | However , the extent of the command in the Great Commission is not simply the spread of the gospel outwards territorially but down through the cultural layers . |
| 11 | Semantics is then not concerned directly with natural language at all , but only with the abstract entities propositions , which sentences and contexts jointly pick out . |
| 12 | A well aimed flower bomb soon put paid to the battling vegies , but only for a few seconds to give you time to pass , save the children and leave quickly . |
| 13 | A well aimed flower bomb soon put paid to the battling vegies , but only for a few seconds to give you time to pass , save the children and leave quickly . |
| 14 | However , longer Morse sequences yielded an advantage for the left ear , but only for the experienced operators . |
| 15 | Therefore it is proposed that national supervisory rules should be harmonized , not in every detail , but only in the key factors — other less crucial aspects of the rules can be allowed to vary from country to country and be subject to mutual recognition . |
| 16 | Ultimately it was Nayim 's audacious away goal that ruled , but only in the closing minutes had the Londoners enjoyed a moment 's respite from the pumped-up Fourth Division team , who had Roy McDonough sent off for a reckless tackle near the end . |
| 17 | Against that background , the minister seems intent on wiping out salmonella , but only in the egg-laying flocks . |
| 18 | In the case of behaviour , we know quite a lot about what animals actually do , and about the anatomy and physiology of the brain , but only in the simplest cases can we explain the former in terms of the latter . |
| 19 | Obvious discussion points are based on the introduction of the mathematical names for the more common shapes and of some of their properties , but only in the simplest terms , e.g. which shapes will roll , which will slide , etc. and these discussions can be centred at one time upon the three-dimensional solid and on another occasion on the two-dimensional bounding surfaces . |
| 20 | But soon after the Napoleonic Wars the incidence of peasant disturbances began to rise again : there was a serious outbreak in the Urals in 1835 and widespread violence in 1847 . |
| 21 | But already in the early years of his pontificate , before he was master of the enlarged Papal State from Radicofani in the north to Ceprano in the south , mercenaries had been used in the campaign against Markward of Anweiler , who was fighting the imperial cause in Italy between 1199 and 1201 ; five hundred at one time and possibly as many as 2000 . |
| 22 | Top of my list of large trees is the Norway maple ( Acer platanoides ) — tough , fast growing and with beautiful autumn colouring , it is a native of Europe , but not of the British Isles . |
| 23 | Scientific and technological advances will help the world deal with greenhouse gases , but not for a hundred years or so . |
| 24 | It contains some fascinating material , but not on the central issues of twentieth century British secret service history . |
| 25 | The Council was exempted from meeting on the sixty or so annual festival days , but not on the monthly ones ; this adds up to a large number of meetings ( c.300 ) held per year . |
| 26 | I thought it might have amused X. Ray to see it and hoped one day he would , but not under the hostile circumstances in which I had the misfortune to discover myself . |
| 27 | They will certainly leave the Centre much fitter than When they arrived , but not without a few bumps and bruises sustained along the way . |
| 28 | As expected Oct-1 could be specifically removed from the labelled probe by competition with excess unlabelled octamer binding sites including both the octamer binding site from HPV 16/18 as well as the homologous HSV octamer but not by the binding sites for other transcription factors such as Sp1 and NF1 . |
| 29 | We do that in relation to negligence generally in the civil courts , but not in the criminal courts . ’ |
| 30 | It would be retained in police files but not in the criminal files — the superintendent would issue the caution . |