Example sentences of "[adv] but [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Leader , following in the track of the horses , went some paces ahead scanning the forest on either side ; behind him followed Hugh , walking close by Marian 's side ; still further back , together but with the width of the track between them , were Michael and the thin man ; and bringing up the rear was Crane , the young man who had run after the horses . |
| 2 | On our right , alongside but above the road , runs the Docklands Light Railway , bright and new . |
| 3 | It was only about a thousand words long but of a high quality . |
| 4 | The social services of Kent County Council can be cited as an example of a local authority which has adapted the key elements of ZBB so that key programmes are reviewed not annually but on a five yearly cycle . |
| 5 | The full implication of this approach will be discussed below but in the education system this has led to leadership being confused with technical competence ( the headteacher as leading professional ) or with implementation ( the headteacher as administrator ) . |
| 6 | Obedience under legal authority is not owed to an individual personally but to the impersonal and abstract rules specifying the rights of office . |
| 7 | ‘ I received a lot of abuse when I left Brookside , not ME personally but in a way just as bad . |
| 8 | Its grey buildings , mainly guest houses displaying ‘ Vacancies ’ at netted windows , looked bad enough but with a leaden sky and a seafront virtually devoid of life , apart from one or two hopefuls trying to find shelter from driving rain , it was almost guaranteed to sink one 's spirits . |
| 9 | Fair enough but in the future so as not to have |
| 10 | ‘ That 's a good thing , ’ Mr Hellyer said , quite good-humouredly but with a singular lack of interest . |
| 11 | Many houses consisted of one storey only but in a number of instances , as at Priene , stairs have been excavated , leading to the presumption that an upper story had been constructed . |
| 12 | A scientific revolution corresponds to the abandonment of one paradigm and the adoption of a new one , not by an individual scientist only but by the relevant scientific community as a whole . |
| 13 | It lives not for itself alone but as a part of a whole . |
| 14 | From the first , our meteorite collecting programmes have been motivated not for the sake of numbers alone but by the hope that large quantities of fragments would include samples of rare or completely new type of meteorites . |
| 15 | The influence of trade unions lay not in their numbers alone but in the strength and cogency of their arguments . |
| 16 | However , the finest study for a painting — and the fabulous moment in the show — does not emanate from Holkham but is a Raphael drawing acquired by our National Gallery through private treaty , and purchased not via national funding bodies alone but from the legacies of the late Keith Andrews ( Print Room Keeper 1958-85 , a devoted scholar and delightful personality ) and his sister Rene . |
| 17 | Whereas the time taken for a computer working randomly but with the constraint of cumulative selection to perform the same task is of the same order as humans ordinarily can understand , between 11 seconds and the time it takes to have lunch . |
| 18 | All her hair had been burnt away but for the black roots and her features hideously charred . |
| 19 | These allow soil attachment to occur normally but to the coating rather than the substrate . |
| 20 | I was so hurt it was like a serious wound , it would start being painful soon but in the meantime there was just an apprehensive numbness . |
| 21 | Yes the best if there was a dry time a dry stack , they kept that very best but for the calf beds , both for the bothy and the house . |
| 22 | If teachers are to merit the title of ‘ professional ’ , using the word not in the narrow context outlined above but in the sense of somebody who in their employment performs a task well , teachers will need to regain the confidence of the public . |
| 23 | This second purpose is dealt with not only in the brief account of evolution outlined above but by a philosophical discussion of the production of ideas in history which it is equally essential to understand for apprehending the Marxist attitude to history and anthropology . |
| 24 | Amplification was performed as described elsewhere but with a 25 µl reaction volume with 5 µl of sample added . |
| 25 | States parties may accede separately tot he convention and to the jurisdiction of the Commission and the Court , and they may do so not permanently but for a specific term on the expiry of which the accession will end . |
| 26 | It is conceivable that some electors actually misled the pollsters , not in the sense of lying deliberately but in the sense of ‘ letting off steam ’ . |
| 27 | Conversation at table is as superfluous as a sermon in church ; all is still but for the ping of the latest microwave masterpiece . |
| 28 | The world of the Zoo seemed to move without any noise at all and around the Cages all was still but for the visitor Creggan had attacked , who swayed back and forth where he sat on the ground , others gathered around him . |
| 29 | She suspected that some aspects of rural life would be lost for ever but at the same time she could see that much was gained . |
| 30 | THE stock market rang out 1989 in fine style yesterday but for the pound it was the familiar story of a struggling recovery from a previous hefty fall . |