Example sentences of "[pron] but [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A stone dislodged would have endangered not only ourselves but also the workers below . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | national account manager who 's specifically looks after and then go and see on a regular basis but call on them but invariably the accounts that those account managers deal with at erm will be split all round the country and will be controlled by our local sales executives in those areas |
| 8 | Hardly a word had passed between them but now the gunman looked up and said quietly , ‘ There is nothing that I can do . ’ |
| 9 | something , something but once a year . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The theme of an it-structure is not It but rather the element which occurs after the verb to be . |
| 13 | Hollywood had carried all before it but even the Hollywood product was fairly diversified . |
| 14 | It certainly makes you think about it but then the thought of all those nappies puts you off ! ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Building in opportunities for student progression is one of these , so that special courses , very necessarily built up over the last 15 years , do not become an end in themselves but rather a means towards mainstream education and training . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |