Example sentences of "[pron] but [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ah computational modelling is easier for me to present to you but then the role of context might become more important so you can appreciate it , in which case I shall give you that first . |
| 2 | The final example is perhaps an unexpected mathematical experience as there is no discussion of the tower itself but rather the child has been carried to the top of the high tower in his imagination and asked to look down at the people below . |
| 3 | Thus , most economists agree that the key issue is not ownership itself but rather the severity of the market competition , or its substitute government competition policy , which the industry faces . |
| 4 | His huge diocese , covering not only Northumbria itself but also the tributary territories of the Picts and the Irish colonies in western Scotland , his riches , and the numbers of his monasteries and his followers , made him very much a prince bishop . |
| 5 | There was not enough action and they were just too predictable , that they simply did not scare me but surely the point of a horror book is to scare you ? |
| 6 | Property rights , in this case whether you are legally entitled to compensation for loss of light to your garden , determine who compensates whom but not the outcome S * of the bargain . |
| 7 | The rain was making a curtain all round them but not a drop came through the yew . |
| 8 | ‘ The Shah accepted them but not the Ayatollah ; persecuted to annihilation . ’ |
| 9 | Hardly a word had passed between them but now the gunman looked up and said quietly , ‘ There is nothing that I can do . ’ |
| 10 | So , if you like the shape of something but not the size and colour , do not give up on it . |
| 11 | something , something but once a year . |
| 12 | I thought I heard something but then the oaf of a guide urged his horse back , shouting out questions which would have roused the dead . |
| 13 | Wolman ( 1986 ) argues that what informed Reagan 's urban policy was the misplaced notion of a national and urban dichotomy , economies engaged in a zero-sum game ; the federal government could assist the one but not the other , since the costs of doing so would detract from national economic recovery . |
| 14 | You can live without the one but not the other . |
| 15 | Hence to ban one but not the other may not be as ridiculous as a simple interpretation of their model would suggest . |
| 16 | The degree of control of human populations required by the design , especially in the random allocation of subjects to experimental and to control groups , and subjecting one but not the other to the causal treatment in the field , is practically impossible . |
| 17 | Mum looked pleadingly at him but not a word was said between any of us until he was opening the door to leave and Dad said , ‘ Bloody good riddance , an' do n't bang the door when you go , I 've only just mended it . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It was in me to beat him but not the way they wanted me to fight . ’ |
| 19 | The following day I went again , not to see her but just the way one does in a house with a garden at a given point in the day when there 's not much else to do . |
| 20 | The theme of an it-structure is not It but rather the element which occurs after the verb to be . |
| 21 | It is often described as ‘ whickering ’ , a pretty good term once you 've heard it but not a lot of good if you have n't . |
| 22 | It certainly makes you think about it but then the thought of all those nappies puts you off ! ’ |
| 23 | The other major task is to look again at the ‘ learning difficulties ’ modules — not only the modules themselves but also the way in which they are grouped in the Catalogue . |
| 24 | On the other hand , if the option is not exercised , the purchaser not only loses the initial value paid for the options themselves but also the commission paid on the shares he or she did not buy . |
| 25 | Conversely , if people take account of the costs to themselves but not the burden on the National Health Service in deciding whether or not to smoke and damage their health , society may regard smoking as a merit bad that should be discouraged . |
| 26 | I mean Ann and Rita reckon they 're not married or anything but why the hell does she stay with him then ? |
| 27 | Sarah Abbott , also from Edinburgh Women 's Aid , added : ‘ These figures highlight not only the amount of women and children who come to us but also the amount who unfortunately we have to turn away because of lack of space , facilities and funding . ’ |