Example sentences of "[noun] but by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result history is driven not by ideas and religion but by the economic basis of our culture . |
| 2 | collective bargaining is not typically concluded by a contract , specifying in detail the future rights and duties of either side but by an understanding [ which ] must depend on personal relationships and customary usages . |
| 3 | Macro focusing is generally done , not by the normal focus ring but by the zoom lever , and the adjustment needs to be done carefully to obtain maximum sharpness . |
| 4 | Although the ALP suffered an adverse swing of approximately 6 per cent , the most significant gains were made not by the opposition coalition but by the Democrats ( whose share of the vote increased from 6 to 11 per cent ) and by independent and environmental candidates . |
| 5 | In eleven of Cnut 's grants the Latin introduction to the boundaries is followed not by the first set of bounds but by an introduction in Anglo-Saxon . |
| 6 | He did not take long in drinking his tea but by the time he had finished it , he saw that she was no longer at the counter , her place having been taken by another girl . |
| 7 | These techniques may be the conscious application of ideas which have been subjected to previous appraisal and are therefore the realization of principles , or they may simply be a set of more or less formulaic activities sanctioned not by appraisal but by the approval of authority . |
| 8 | A major merit of network planning systems such as PERT is that the structure ensures that the work content and logical sequence of jobs is not stated in potentially ambiguous groups of words but by a combination of the layout of the network and the defined symbols forming it . |
| 9 | It was made clear to a friend of mine who was dying that he was not wanted on the ward , not through words but by the minimum care he was given after an unsuccessful operation and the refusal of any doctor to speak to him . |
| 10 | Viewed by many as a vain upstart , de Gaulle 's stand was in fact inspired not by ambition but by a deeply-held belief in the grandeur of France . |
| 11 | At the time , however , they were accepted ( indeed assiduously pored over and frequently quoted by Citrine and others ) as embodying two widely-approved aspirations : firstly , a general desire to spread the benefits of cheap electricity widely ( with the ‘ public interest ’ implicitly seen as overriding the tyranny of the profit-and-loss account ) ; and secondly ( but not entirely consistently ) the view that these economic objectives should be pursued not through political or civil service channels but by the ‘ business ’ board of a public corporation with some genuine independence . |
| 12 | In our panel of voters the Conservative lead over Labour increased by 34 per cent amongst Sun/Star readers but by a mere 2 per cent amongst Mirror readers , which suggests the tabloids were able to influence their readers . |
| 13 | Will the Secretary of State confirm that the privatisation of the inspectorate inherent in the Education ( Schools ) Bill goes far further than that presaged in the schools charter and includes , under the guise of additional inspectors , the substitution of private money-making firms to do the work currently carried out , not just by local inspectors but by the chief inspector of schools ? |
| 14 | The transformation of postwar industrial cities was driven not by some abstract historical force but by a combination of private investment decision and state action . |
| 15 | Even today there are many areas of constitutional law regulated not by statute but by the common law as expounded by our judges . |
| 16 | St. Leonard 's Hospital was devoted mainly to the care of lepers but by the time of the Reformation , leprosy had largely disappeared from England . |
| 17 | We venture into public life protected not so much by the sanctions of formal law but by an unwritten charter of civil rights which assigns us both access to and independence from others with whom we come into contact . |
| 18 | Whitlock scrambled to his feet but by the time he reached the fence the gunman had already crossed the twenty-yard clearing and disappeared into a derelict warehouse . |
| 19 | We bought a CD of the same work but by the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Herbert von Karajan and released on Deutsche Gramaphon . |
| 20 | It is seen as pulled not only by the reserves of cheap ex-agricultural labour in Third World countries but by the ready availability of large amounts of unskilled , young , frequently female labour for unskilled tasks . |
| 21 | The best known pheromone is emitted not by an ant but by the female silk moth ( Bombyx mori ) . |
| 22 | The court said that the parties had chosen the manner by which they wished to have their disputes resolved , and that the wording of the clause did not leave any scope for saying that , in so far as that matter was one of law , it was to be determined not by the expert but by the court . |
| 23 | It is possible to start off with just one or two tags which control the main typographic elements but by the time page numbers , headers , footers , indexes , etc have been added the list can get unwieldy . |
| 24 | Americans were bothered not only by the Baltic crackdown in January but by the Soviet reaction to American complaints about it . |
| 25 | However , financial advice is not provided by the solicitors who are not registered under the Financial Services Act but by a firm of insurance brokers , Sedgwick , which has a contract with the company . |
| 26 | Their alternative name , Vlah ( Wallachian ) , suggests their origin but by the nineteenth century most had become Hellenised , speaking and acting as intermediaries between the Greek clergy and their Serbian parish priests . |
| 27 | It is the essential feeling of " badness " and it may be inculcated not by circumstance but by the mere attitude of others towards us . |
| 28 | When the dispute was eventually resolved in Cyril 's favour , it was not by the Council but by a decision of the Emperor Theodosius . |
| 29 | Even so , the grip of liberal ideas upon the law of contract is weakening , because , as I have tried to show , the legal doctrine is ultimately shaped not by fidelity to liberal precepts but by a particular scheme of distributive justice and a vision of the legitimate market order . |
| 30 | The child looked up , transfixed , He was seized , suddenly , not only by the fear of discovery but by a deeper , long-buried fear . |