Example sentences of "but [adv] the [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It appears that these penalties have been based very much on the default surcharge , but thankfully the level of penalty does appear to be significantly lower , though the period of penalty is much longer . |
| 2 | But mostly the ethos of Eagle was too remote from my working-class existence . |
| 3 | There are strong grounds for limiting the sample size of the investigation because it is not the number of countries per se which is usually important , but rather the range of variation which they provide ( Walker , 1967 ) . |
| 4 | It is not the entirely understandable worries about the choice of South Africa as the tournament venue when that country is in so delicate a political — and hence economically sensitive — state , but rather the veil of secrecy that seems to shroud all commercial aspects of the next World Cup event . |
| 5 | Parents are no longer told what methods to adopt , but rather the frame of mind in which to adopt them . |
| 6 | My contention is that the main cause of the British predicament has not been the British economy but rather the decline of sterling and the failure of British policy to adapt to that decline … . |
| 7 | The last three categories are not offered as examples of good text construction , but rather the sort of thing to avoid . |
| 8 | Shearman recalled that , at first , discussion with Hickson was unpromising but eventually the appointment of Pateman to the post , vacant from 1928 , was confirmed . |
| 9 | The sores that it produces are usually found on the external surface of the penis in the male , but rarely the site of infection may be inside the urethra , and in these cases recurrent ‘ non-specific urethritis ’ may occur , which is particularly resistant to treatment . |
| 10 | The decided cases do not yet give a clear answer to this problem but presumably the retention of title clause would entitle the seller to take and re-sell such of the timber he had supplied under this contract as remained unsold and unmixed in the buyer 's possession . |
| 11 | But perhaps the loss of Speed is the biggest worry , his late runs into the box , power in the air and explosive finishing have resulted in the goals from midfield completely drying up . |
| 12 | Once convinced , however , that no major philosophical change was involved , but merely the identification by reference to more sophisticated criteria of what has always been regarded as death , medical lawyers have increasingly come to accept brain-stem death as the legal description also . |
| 13 | This inexperience appears to be their only real drawback , but obviously the style of architecture did not suit Hope 's taste . |
| 14 | McHale points out that ‘ a character 's knowledge of his own fictionality often functions as a kind of master-trope for determinism — cultural , historical , psychological determinism , but especially the inevitability of death ’ ( 123 ) . |
| 15 | When the energy is exactly E 1 or E 2 the orbits are circular of radii r 1 and r 2 respectively , but only the orbit at radius r 1 is stable . |
| 16 | This was applied and extended by Sir Robert to safeguard the arrangements for telephone-tapping , even though when a tap is placed there may be no iniquity but only the suspicion of iniquity ; and that entire conversations may be recorded and listened to ‘ when much of the conversations may be highly confidential and untainted by any iniquity ’ . |
| 17 | At first he found the increase of activity made him feel healthier , but soon the exhaustion of travelling — and the waste of time involved — began to affect him . |
| 18 | But soon the consciousness of security became so ingrained that we lost all temptation to enquire about the nature of work with which we were not immediately concerned . |
| 19 | But already the attraction of entertainment was strong ; Steen spent most of his limited pocket-money on tickets for the music hall and in 1923 launched himself as Mario , the Melodic Whistler . |
| 20 | What the difference is between a real thing and a ‘ counterfeit ’ , one can not tell , but anyway the idea of perversion as opposed to creation comes over . |
| 21 | But generally the arena for attack or defence was in England and Europe . |
| 22 | But generally the level of violence in Cambodia during the election was lower than during the campaign . |
| 23 | But tonight the Department of Health said it was the responsibility of health authorities to manage the internal market , and the first priority should be the patient . |
| 24 | Thus the nationalized industries include British Rail and British Coal , but not the provision of defence or the provision of social services such as education or housing , which are not sold commercially . |
| 25 | If I misrepresent the subject of war ( but not the concern with love and loss ) in Housman 's poetry I can even fuel my own paranoia about the condition of our planet . |
| 26 | But not the depth of love he , Harry , could give her , he told himself , as he turned back towards Charles Street in the hope of finding Alice there . |
| 27 | In other words , at the factor prices ruling , the demand for factors is such that the constraint on capital is binding but not the constraint on labour ( we do not go into the dynamic adjustment process by which this rationed equilibrium has been reached ) . |
| 28 | Administered prices may accomplish a variety of ends , but not the balancing of supply with demand ( for social reasons , meat is cheap so there usually is no meat ) ; nor will they reflect real alternatives and scarcities ( hence the metal content of Soviet machinery is 25 per cent greater than in their American equivalents , and energy consumption per unit of GNP is almost twice that in Western Europe ) . |
| 29 | Its personal computer network protocol support is good but not the equal of Unix at its best . |
| 30 | They stress the often fragmented and piecemeal character of the racial hostility expressed by some white people in their survey : some of them blamed black settlers for housing shortages but not the loss of employment opportunities , for example . |