Example sentences of "[art] [adj] but [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maps have been drawn to illustrate just what organ is linked to which part of the sole but the soles are not the only areas used : there are said to be reflexes on the tops of the feet and a short way up the backs of the legs . |
| 2 | There is no indication how they decided what had to be paid for by the Stent but the total liability was divided amongst 132 quarter lands . |
| 3 | There is no indication how they decided what had to be paid for by the Stent but the total liability was divided amongst 132 quarter lands . |
| 4 | The summer timetable saw very little change at the Western end of the Cambrian but a notable addition was an 07:00 Newtown to Birmingham service each weekday using stock and crews brought out a a passenger service from Salop . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , it seems the loudest critics of English soccer are now not the Scots but the English themselves . |
| 6 | By comparison the scientist is burdened with his instruments and only a few of the greatest of them feel the infinite but the mystic is drowned in it . |
| 7 | In 1988 the old effective exchange rate had absolute values in the 70s but the new index is in the 90s . |
| 8 | The 1989 review of the NHS allowed tax relief for private health insurance for the over-60s but the rejection of other means of finance rules out any fundamental change in the near future . |
| 9 | The manager and the subordinate jointly review performance focusing not on the individual but the latter 's work situation . |
| 10 | At its simplest , sociobiology is arguing , then , that the central drive affecting individual and social behaviour is not the preservation of the individual but the maximisation of the individual 's genes into future generations . |
| 11 | Plot similar to The Accused but no less disturbing . |
| 12 | The court was an ultimate court of morality : the issues were not the guilt or innocence of the accused but the guilt or innocence of those who opposed apartheid . ’ |
| 13 | In relation to the disclosure to the defence of material in the possession of the prosecution , the key is fairness to the accused but the practice varies between different jurisdictions in the common law world . |
| 14 | What we have in both the approaches is an ‘ essentialist ’ view of sexuality ; sex conceptualised as an overpowering force in the individual that shapes not only the personal but the social life as well . |
| 15 | I ca n't swear to the following but the headmaster said Basil was undoubtedly a gentleman , but he 'd rather not have his brother in case he turned out the same . |
| 16 | I do n't want to dwell too much on the obvious but a number of things should be pointed out here . |
| 17 | It was never true that the majority of local parties were under the control of the Left but the more active and vocal Constituencies were becoming so by 1939 . |
| 18 | ‘ Some were for the better but a lot were for worse . |
| 19 | What we owned we stole and filched , not from the poor but the merchants , the lawyers , the fat and the rich . |
| 20 | It was reduced to only two dozen cows during the 1970s but a breed society was formed in 1984 and numbers have increased to about 100 , with a large bank of frozen semen ; it remains severely endangered . |
| 21 | The effects of this trend weakened in the 1970s but the numbers of economically active women were by that time swollen by the fall in the numbers of children and by the fall in the numbers of women entering motherhood in their twenties . |
| 22 | They looked lovely on the mantelpiece in the flat but a new bouquet would not go astray at this stage . |
| 23 | Rain and Oliver called at the flat but the fingerprints man had still not been . |
| 24 | Organisational reforms have tried to help them find a voice : through positive discrimination in the form of reserved seats on committees at all levels ; through National Women 's Officers ; through Women 's Advisory Committees which run parallel to the decision-making committees of the unions and have free access to the latter but no voting rights . |
| 25 | There 's a conscious rejection of the sonic values of the '80s but a bright-eyed optimism about the 1990s . |
| 26 | It is in a rather different sense that it is said of the wicked that they will soon fade like the grass ( Ps 37.2 ) , for there it is not an inbuilt weakness of the human constitution that accounts for the imminent death of the wicked but a fate peculiar to wrongdoers . |
| 27 | W.N. and L.A. Kellogg adopted the then revolutionary idea of rearing an infant chimpanzee in their own home in the 1920s but the experiment with Gua was abandoned after a year because no signs of vocalisation resembling human speech were observed . |
| 28 | The site , near modern Kerma , has been known since the 1920s but the city underneath has only emerged over the last ten years . |
| 29 | An npn Darlington MJ3001 was tried originally , fed directly from pin 3 of the 555 but the performance was inferior to the present arrangement because of the difficulty of getting sufficient drive . |
| 30 | They do all the attacking but the other team do all the scoring . |