Example sentences of "[adj] but by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Athenian work , however , dominates sixth-century vase-painting , not only by the quantity produced and exported but by the superb quality of the best . |
| 2 | In the 1950s Dulles ' threat of ‘ massive retaliation ’ in the event of war , did not seem unrealistic but by the 1970s a position of ‘ mutually-assured destruction ’ was reached between the Superpowers . |
| 3 | It had surged forth in that dreadful shop in London , when he had stood transfixed — not , as Helen thought , by bunches of guinea-fowl but by the bare arms of the butcher 's lad adroitly trimming a carcass on a block beneath . |
| 4 | It 's just started to get dark but by the time it 's just started to get |
| 5 | To begin with we were nervous but by the end we were making up silly situations and if we made mistakes everyone laughed . ’ |
| 6 | At that time grant was minimal but by the 1930s it matched the rates as a source of current income ( Bennett 1982:44 ) . |
| 7 | Direction is determined not by an objective but by the nature of the organisation and the field in which it operates . |
| 8 | Er which you might think that again sounds odd and finicky but by the way note I said between w er er it applies to both ward and division . |
| 9 | At the beginning of his term as General Secretary , Brezhnev had been seen as a leader pursuing the art of the possible but by the end of his life , his leadership was seen , more pointedly , as the avoidance of the necessary . |
| 10 | It was indeed a bit like an LTP effect , though generated not by the artificial injection of current but by a behavioural experience . |
| 11 | No By time you I mean it 's not that far but by the time you get there the car wo n't have a chance to warm up thoroughly . |
| 12 | Progress has been patchy but by the time of writing study on the following fields ( often requiring further compulsory elements or specific combinations of fields in addition to the general requirements of the course regulations ) carry agreed professional exemption or recognition for graduates : |
| 13 | As for the West Midlands , it tried various shades of red , white , blue , and grey and even canary yellow but by the end of 1989 had still not got its formula worked out . |
| 14 | In the early 1970s , the differences in expenditure were insignificant but by the mid-1980s , ITV was spending over one-and-a-half times more on its television services than the BBC . |
| 15 | In the course of such conversations it often happens that the bereaved person is not only troubled by thoughts that they might be going mad but by the notion that they are very bad . |
| 16 | you are the reason why I left the school , you know , none of the girls are happy by their upper sixth , in the lower sixth you might think it 's alright but by the time |