Example sentences of "[art] [adj] but [art] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I do n't want to dwell too much on the obvious but a number of things should be pointed out here . |
| 9 | ‘ Some were for the better but a lot were for worse . |
| 10 | What we owned we stole and filched , not from the poor but the merchants , the lawyers , the fat and the rich . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Rain and Oliver called at the flat but the fingerprints man had still not been . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The site , near modern Kerma , has been known since the 1920s but the city underneath has only emerged over the last ten years . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The Montreal Convention 1987 aims at reducing the production of chlorofluorocarbons by half by the end of the 1990s but the scientists maintain that a drastic reduction is needed soon ‘ to prevent an environmental problem from becoming an environmental catastrophe ’ . |
| 20 | In this passage , Wittgenstein mentions one argument for saying that the thought is not the same as the sentence — two sentences ‘ one in English and one in French , may be said to express the same thought ; since the thought is the same but the sentences different the thought is not the same as either of the sentences . |
| 21 | On a more personal level , Riley has said : ‘ The game is the same but the stakes are higher for women – – You need time to reflect , you are alone essentially , and I knew that I could n't give the time and thought to bringing up children or caring for another person on an intimate level . |
| 22 | The materials used are the same but the weaving methods are completely different : |
| 23 | This process continues with a figure expanding and contracting , the melody essentially remains the same but the rhythm alters because of the addition or subtraction of notes . |
| 24 | In Britain the attitude remains the same but the Dupatta is not quite so essential . |
| 25 | It was a problem ( to be discussed below in chapter 5 ) which was to perplex not only the wealthy but every level of the middle classes for the remainder of the century . |
| 26 | Glasgow Airport recorded its 11th sunfree day in succession on the 14th but the pattern changed as a cold front made eastwards progress across the country . |
| 27 | A limited number attend clubs ( such as Gateway , sports , orchestra , for the dead but the majority attend classes , about 50 per cent of them within the adult basic education framework . |
| 28 | The depressed post-war state of the countries ' economies meant that little progress was made until the 1950s but the experience of modern warfare had at least convinced government circles that the old security arguments against a tunnel were redundant . |
| 29 | It is possible that in fact the true Shetland breed disappeared by the 1950s but the type persists . |
| 30 | So she was n't a stranger but a friend : one of the friends of Lili 's London afternoons ; a woman dressed in black wool with silver hoop earrings . |