Example sentences of "but [adv] by a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this would vindicate those who believe that the market 's ills are not going to be solved by tinkering with new issue processes , but rather by a drastic cutback in the overheads — ie , sacking people — being carried by the industry . |
| 2 | Private companies can now get rid of the requirement for member involvement , but only by an elective resolution under s 379A . |
| 3 | Man is more individuated than a fly , but not by a great margin . |
| 4 | Most people would be worse off financially but not by a great deal . |
| 5 | The destruction of share values , the need to auction assets , the cost of paying accountants and lawyers : these vary , but not by a huge amount . |
| 6 | This was specific because it was competitively inhibited by peptide 15 but not by an unrelated peptide , peptide 1 ( compare tracks 6 and 5 ) . |
| 7 | This section will be displaced by the adoption of a new partnership agreement but not by an unexecuted draft or by heads of agreement unless their terms have in fact been acted upon or all the partners have agreed to be bound by those terms ( see Walters v Bingham [ 1988 ] 1 FTLR 260 ) . |
| 8 | It is a view held not only by expert bodies and individuals but also by a substantial proportion of the general public who are not necessarily able to explain why and how this process takes place . |
| 9 | The effect of NO synthase inhibition was not only indicated by an increase in the maximal response induced by CCK-8 but also by a prolonged duration of the response . |
| 10 | Headline overcame the difficulties of its market — the weakness of the retail scene , and less than robust sales through wholesalers to supermarkets and other non-traditional outlets — not only by a strong new book publishing programme , with 385 new titles compared with 300 the previous year , but also by a cautious approach to overheads . |
| 11 | If so , we should not assume this was a Whig victory ; the policy of using the powers of the purse to restrict the Crown 's independence was pursued not only by radical Whigs , such as Colonel John Birch and William Sacheverell , but also by a significant number of Tories , led by Clarges and Seymour . |
| 12 | Such suspicions are justified — not only by individual horror stories , but also by a growing number of scientific studies of the side effects of modern contraception . |
| 13 | Intensive NMR studies in collaboration with Kurt Wüthrich have led Walter Gehring ( Biozentrum , Basel ) to conclude that the DNA binding specificity of the homeobox genes he discovered ( which are transcription factors specifying segmental identity in metazoans from insects to humans ) is determined not only by the ‘ recognition helix ’ that sits in the major groove of the DNA , but also by a flexible segment at the amino-terminal end of the homeobox which appears to wrap around the DNA so as to contact the minor groove . |
| 14 | French policy is clearly dictated by the particular economic circumstances of Nord-Pas-de-Calais but also by a longer term vision of the likely impact of rail transport in Europe . |
| 15 | In developing a more independent stance on the war , Henderson was driven forward not only by the logic of party politics , but also by a rising tide of war-weariness and peace agitation . |
| 16 | It is marked out not just by virtuosity and weight of tone ( there was a time when the Leningrad Philharmonic could have supplied front-desk players to virtually every other top-class orchestra in the world ) but also by an astonishing unity of expressive purpose . |
| 17 | Your expertise will be rewarded not only by a competitive salary , but also by an extensive range of benefits including 5 weeks ' holiday , pension and profit share schemes , a subsidised restaurant and first-class sports and social facilities . |
| 18 | These factors — the noble connections of churchmen and the extent of their involvement in the secular world — meant that the king 's attitude to them could be determined not only by the importance of their spiritual role in a society in which religion mattered , but also by an intricate web of personal political allegiances and aspirations deeply rooted in lay affairs . |