Example sentences of "[noun] but [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | S. F Perry saw the exercise not as a disappointment but as an heartening indicator of future progress : |
| 4 | It remained an integral part of a government department but with an attempt to try to introduce accountable management and run it in a businesslike fashion . |
| 5 | Not , I hasten to add , through fraud but through an error in part of the model . |
| 6 | The value of accurate geological information was becoming apparent not only as a basis for research but as an aid in assessing the national mineral wealth and in formulating land utilisation policies . |
| 7 | The Government 's response was a new scheme , introduced in 1997 after two years of negotiation and dispute with the POA , called ‘ Fresh Start ’ , under which prison officers can opt to work either 39 or 48 hours per week without overtime but with an improved basic salary . |
| 8 | On a personal note , may I say that when I want to hear the Fourth Symphony for pleasure , which is relatively speaking often , I turn not to Munch or Dutoit but to an old tape I have from 1954 of the much underrated Albert Wolff conducting the Swedish Radio Orchestra . |
| 9 | The flight had left London originally on Christmas Eve in another aircraft but after an hour 's flying time it had developed trouble with its undercarriage and had to return to London . |
| 10 | Curiously , the leucine zipper structures for both proteins are almost identical , and one could view Max as a bZIP protein but with an extra pair of ‘ prongs ’ . |
| 11 | Thermodynamics by contrast is a highly mathematical branch of physics , concerned with relations of heat and work , and conservation of energy really functions in it not as a law but as an axiom : as one of the bases for the deductive , mathematical system . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Mrs Chamorro declined to give interviews while in Washington but in an article published this week , she wrote : ‘ Ten years of living dangerously has brought civil war , an exodus of a fifth of our countrymen , an annual inflation of 30,000 per cent , 40 per cent unemployment and for the first time in our history , mass hunger . |
| 14 | Unthinking , he had placed himself not in front of the desk but at an angle to it so that he was closer to the pipes , and he wondered how long the interview would last because it was short of thirty minutes until the call to the Kitchen for dinner and the hunger pain pinched at his stomach . |
| 15 | I 'm never never one for for making work but on an a on although this is n't going to be called an annual report for most children it will be an annual event and I do feel quite strongly that for the child to be able to have the opportunity |
| 16 | At Pilkingtons and Ford , benchmarking exercises were confined to manufacturing costs and work organization , whereas RX instigated a more profound organizational benchmarking , isolating competitive gaps in all aspects of organization not simply as a sporadic trigger exercise to prioritize change areas but as an on-going process . |
| 17 | The concentration of effort within one small field , and on small quadrats within it , gives the studies high precision and high relevance but with an absolute sacrifice of generality . |
| 18 | Wales was conquered and subjected in the middle ages , Scotland 's parliament and administration were absorbed in 1707 , Ireland lost all but local administration in 1801 and the British upper classes reacted in horror at the prospect not of Irish independence but of an element of internal self-government when it was proposed by Gladstone in 1886 . |
| 19 | This process has been accepted and developed since the first typesetting systems which produced galleys were introduced — indeed an identical process was used with lead type but in an upside down and back to front sort of a way . |
| 20 | He is suspicious about their motives but with an over-time ban on at Sun Hill nick , are there enough officers on duty to prevent more violence ? |
| 21 | It will normally sell for £12 but as an introductory offer the booklet is available for just £10 , until 31st August 1992 , direct from Alison Duguid , . |
| 22 | The solution was to add a form of the hormone progesterone so that the lining was shed not as a period but as an artificial withdrawal bleed . |
| 23 | Similarly , one could argue that the saturation of nineteenth-century bourgeois homes with printed music resulted , in some respects , not in a mass of passive reproducers but in an intensely active music culture , with a high regard for the immediacy of performance and the ‘ spiritual ’ value of musical communication . |
| 24 | On Wednesday 15 September 1779 the cutter , Black Prince , sailing under French colours but with an American commander , and crewed by a mixture of Englishmen and Irishmen , suddenly appeared off Fishguard on the west coast of Wales . |
| 25 | He viewed society not as an aggregate of isolated atoms but as an organism for the realization of common purposes . |
| 26 | The large house at the end is still the shop but with an added provision — the Coll Bistro . |
| 27 | ‘ The Smiths are another good example of that : a totally English sort of pop band but with an incredible gift for creating their own sound . |
| 28 | Marzipan is used not only for adding interest and flavour to a cake but as an ‘ undercoat ’ for cake coverings and also for modelling . |
| 29 | It was later , in my wartime hospital that I first realised that the Second Commandment had not been given to Moses on Mount Sinai but to an Irish priest upon the Mountains of Mourne . |
| 30 | It could then have pleaded force of circumstances and lack of resources , not as a defence but as an excuse . |