Example sentences of "but [adv] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ferguson stressed that the American actions need not be interpreted as aggressive but rather as part of defence against a possible Soviet offensive . |
| 2 | Time and again the complaint from articulate working class women 's groups about husbands was not of ill-treatment or economic neglect , but rather of lack of sympathy and understanding . |
| 3 | Ellen Ross 's work has shown that among working-class Edwardians the marriage contract entailed a precise understanding of duties and obligations regarding maintenance ( on the part of the husband ) and household management ( on the part of the wife ) , but little by way of intimacy or romantic love . ’ |
| 4 | CPRW contends that it illustrates all too clearly how a development which would never obtain consent in the enlightened planning world of today , can creep incrementally but inexorably towards permanence through stealth and dogged persistence . |
| 5 | In the final hours of its life on Oct. 27 the 101st Congress passed an omnibus anti-crime package , but only after consultation between House and Senate representatives had stripped it of its most innovative and controversial measures . |
| 6 | The three buttons slope steeply but comfortably from right to left as viewed from the user . |
| 7 | He is entitled to protect both of these : see Morris ( Herbert ) and Attwood v Lamont [ 1920 ] 3 KB 571. 3.1 The employer 's special trade connections The employer is entitled only to protect his business against use of his special trade connections by others but not to protection from competition from his former employee : see the Morris ( Herbert ) case . |
| 8 | The solution arrived at was to compensate only ‘ for loss of development value which accrued in the past up to the point where the 1947 axe fell — but not for loss of development value accruing in the future ’ . |
| 9 | 13.2.3 Subject as aforesaid , any refusal or unreasonable delay ( including but not by way of limitation , any delay beyond the date specified in the request ) in granting such consent may be referred to the Project Committee . |
| 10 | This was expressed by Crick as the ‘ central dogma ’ of molecular biology , that information can pass from DNA to protein , but not from protein to DNA . |
| 11 | Yeah , but not in front of fire . |
| 12 | In the prosperous 1980s many individuals found they were able to consider buying a second home in Europe , perhaps at first for holidays but later with retirement in view . |
| 13 | Sacrament of Reconciliation — with emphasis on the social aspect of the sacrament i.e. a celebration not just of reconciliation between God and man , but also of reconciliation between man and man ( A class experience of a Penitential Service stressing the social aspect of reconciliation would be appropriate ) |
| 14 | Choice of method is often dependent , not only on the learning effects , but also on availability of equipment and cost of use . |
| 15 | A child 's response to death will vary not only in accordance with parental attitudes , but also in accordance with age . |
| 16 | It must also be remembered that they have certain rights while in the Department 's care not only in physical terms but also in relation to information which is held by the Department about them as individuals . |
| 17 | It was pointed out that the Northern Ireland Council on Disability was in the process of investigating the services different agencies are providing for disabled people — not just in relation to physical access , but also in relation to access to the network of information on different services and projects which exclude disability interests . |
| 18 | For we have seen that the bad consequences of an action are supposed to consist not just in pain , but also in loss of pleasure , and the good consequences of an action consist not just in pleasure , but in pain prevented . |
| 19 | On the basis of this evidence , it has been suggested that poverty is the primary cause of the failure to seek legal advice , and it has been proposed that the failure is due to a lack of ‘ legal competence ’ among the less affluent who suffer not only from lack of money , but also from lack of influence , lack of energy and lack of awareness . |
| 20 | The spirit of brotherhood travels not only from country to country but also from time to time . |
| 21 | Currently left back but equally at home in midfield . |
| 22 | Sometimes the historian will make statements , but legitimately through lack of space of relevance may omit details of evidence and his reasoning . |
| 23 | And notwithstanding the , the national minimum time rates were still negotiated and even today , erm our members er in general er helped themselves er not only through the field of increased productivity , but simply through strength of argument . |
| 24 | Moreover , they fluctuate in their supposed order of priority , not merely from Government to Government , nor even from year to year , but almost from day to day at the whim of public and parliamentary opinion . |
| 25 | Most failures in examinations are due not to a deficiency of knowledge but chiefly to lack of familiarity with the techniques of playing the examination game . |