Example sentences of "[noun pl] but by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Is it not economic nonsense that our interest rates should be dictated not by our own grave economic needs but by the interests of the German economy ? |
| 13 | This new machine would not be characterized by the ‘ commanding ’ methods of capitalist state officials but by the routines of managers and bookkeepers , ‘ functions which are already within the capacity of the average city dweller ’ ( p. 43 ) . |
| 14 | Moran rattled the newspaper a few times but by the time he could look around the three children were locked back into their school books . |
| 15 | Thus , popular capitalism has been extended : in 1980 there were just over three million shareholders but by the end of 1989 the number had risen to just under twelve million . |
| 16 | Some Labour politicians continued to cling to their previous peace strategies but by the late 1930s the majority had come to accept that war was inevitable — a view confirmed by the events in Czechoslovakia , Austria and Poland which preceded the outbreak of the European war . |
| 17 | The former international , plagued by injury this season , was on the pitch for just 18 minutes but by the time he returned to the bench Holywood were home and dry . |
| 18 | For practical purposes , therefore , ‘ pollution ’ is something which normally requires some action on the part of the enforcement officer and is defined not by legal rules but by the response of the enforcement authorities . |
| 19 | This distinction had been blurred not only by officers ' participation in the committees but by the Pflimlin government 's delegation of supreme civilian authority to the Commander-in-Chief , General Salan . |
| 20 | the guardians in Poplar and other Unions with high rates of unemployment were constrained from paying out-door relief not only by the regulations but by the fact that such payments would have to be financed by the ratepayers of the Union , most of whom were low paid . |
| 21 | They have suggested that the loss of associability suffered by a pre-exposed stimulus is determined not by the extent to which it is predicted by its antecedents but by the relationship it bears to subsequent events . |
| 22 | Yet such discrepancies are not caused by the logic of structures but by the messy and often far from inevitable ways in which people come to understand the world around them and their own practices . |
| 23 | At first their meeting places were simple , box-like structures but by the middle years of Victoria 's reign pompous new buildings in the Gothic style favoured by the Church of England were being built instead . |
| 24 | Americans knew far too much about the reality of strikes to accept a film in which , in the words of James Shelley Hamilton , ‘ the trouble arises not from working conditions but from a professional trouble-maker and is solved not according to any principles but by an act of sheer moronic terrorism ’ . |
| 25 | For example , there is evidence to suggest that a good deal of communication is achieved not so much by the online assembly of analysed items but by the adaptation of formulaic phrases ( see , for example , Pawley and Syder 1983 ) . |
| 26 | Cumberland now sent orders to the Lords Lieutenant of Lancashire , Westmorland and Cumberland to break up the roads , tear down the bridges and block possible escape routes by felling trees but by the time he reached Preston , on 13 December 1745 , when he was joined by the cavalry sent by General Wade from Newcastle , Prince Charles 's troops had reached Lancaster , 20 miles [ 32 km ] further north , though General Oglethorpe 's detachment was a mere three miles [ 5 km ] behind and almost in contact with the enemy rearguard . |
| 27 | They began by collecting information as traders or colonists but by the end of the sixth century B.C. they were already writing books on ethnography and geography to satisfy their taste for enquiry — for historia , as they called it . |
| 28 | And for once this year , Littlewoods ' results will be most keenly awaited not just by its rivals but by the financial community at large . |
| 29 | The demand for health care ( and the resources it consumes ) is shaped not just by patients but by a million clinical decisions of doctors and other professionals . |
| 30 | There might also be quite a number of very much smaller black holes scattered around the universe , formed not by the collapse of stars but by the collapse of highly compressed regions in the hot , dense medium that is believed to have existed shortly after the big bang in which the universe originated . |