Example sentences of "[noun] but [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are a few songs but mostly the show follows the stand-up format . |
| 2 | Louise was French and luscious , as every male in the district between the ages of fourteen and eighty-four would testify — most from wishful thinking but quite a number from experience . |
| 3 | The base split from side to side but fortunately the water only seeped out . |
| 4 | McLeish , more sharply than he had meant , pointed out that he had a girlfriend but not a wife . |
| 5 | This means you have two choices to make — not only a suitable colour for the mounting card but also the background to go with it . |
| 6 | Today , however , not only will they meet forty or less baying Athletico fans but also a team primed for a late surge up the League . |
| 7 | Bolinger ( 1974 : 86-7 ) seems to side with Palmer and Higgenbotham , for he maintains that the to infinitive evokes not a perception but rather a fact : The passive tends to be used in situations where the interest is not in perceptions but in impersonal facts — for example , in the testimony of a witness who says He was seen to stoop over and pick up some object , and then stuff it in his pocket . |
| 8 | Likewise in ( 36 ) saw evokes not mere visual perception but rather an inference which the speaker has drawn about the character of the people in question on the basis of what he has been able to observe of their behaviour or even of their appearance , and so could be said by someone who had only seen a photograph of them . |
| 9 | Perhaps because of the influence of Juliete De Valero Wills , now divorced from Andy but still a company director , Go ! |
| 10 | In April 1990 the town had 28 empty offices but now the figure stands at 52 , while the number of vacant shops has risen from 20 to 46 , not including 68 shops under construction at the Cornmill centre . |
| 11 | He tells us that , ‘ with the reassessment of this one drawing in the British Museum ‘ Seated nude surrounded by drapery ’ once a Rembrandt but now a Raven the attribution to Rembrandt of a whole series of nude studies by the same hand collapsed ’ . |
| 12 | The proposed cuts had led to talk of its closure but today a reprieve was announced . |
| 13 | So called keyhole surgery is being hailed as the way most operations will be carried out in the future but only a minority of surgeons can actually do it . |
| 14 | he sez they went to several addresses but then the driver surrendered himself at the police station . |
| 15 | They stress the often fragmented and piecemeal character of the racial hostility expressed by some white people in their survey : some of them blamed black settlers for housing shortages but not the loss of employment opportunities , for example . |
| 16 | In political systems where there is free electoral competition between political parties for power , ‘ one might expect to find a connection not only between individual papers and parties but also a correspondence , or parallelism , between the range of papers and the range of parties ’ . |
| 17 | By a ‘ goods-specific ’ externality , the important argument in the donor 's utility function is not simply the utility of the recipient but also the quantity of a good ( e.g. health care or education ) consumed by the recipient . |
| 18 | The point here is not to exonerate the violent behaviour of certain Liverpool supporters but rather the reverse , i.e. to emphasize the potentially fatal risks which are being run each week in stadia where large and rowdy confrontations of young spectators take place . |
| 19 | In fact there were only a few cars but quite a number of pack mules , some horse-drawn carts and one or two carozzelle , fine horse-drawn carriages , most of which had seen better days . |
| 20 | It has been argued that the communist utopia is not a scientific prediction but merely a projection of the ‘ wish-images ’ of those who adopt a Marxist position . |
| 21 | From the foregoing sketch one can recognize not only the features of the political culture outlined in the preceding chapter but also the convergence of those features and their interplay with the experience of history . |
| 22 | In chapter 13 the Group suggests that , for pupils taught mainly through the medium of Welsh , the programmes of study but not the attainment targets for English in key stage 2 will need modification , to accommodate the matters , skills and processes which have been included in the English programmes of study for key stage 1 but have been disapplied in respect of such pupils in key stage 1 . |
| 23 | Children need not only a ‘ lexicon ’ of images but also the ability to cope with a number of conventions . |
| 24 | The burden of Mustakimzade 's argument , then , is that Molla Yegan was a mufti but not the Mufti , that he , like any other had the power of and might give fetvas when the need arose , but that he did not attain the office of Mufti . |
| 25 | I remember the words but not the face . |
| 26 | Although he had defied her before , it had only been in words but now the thought that he had the choice of putting those words into action and so set a new pattern , and in doing so break one of the threads that tied him to her , caused his whole body to tremble and his voice to quiver as he said , ‘ Either you give me permission freely to go with Mick tomorrow or I go down now and put it to Martin . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ A dour man , ’ Buckingham observed , ‘ with bounding ambition but not the talent to match . ’ |
| 28 | Answer guide : They have no direct effect but often the debtor is the other side of the sales entry . |
| 29 | The unforgiving finger of fate always seemed to single out Frank Haffey but eventually the fall-guy had his day . |
| 30 | This chameleon quality often leads to misunderstandings between home and school — each blaming the other , when more often than not they are difficult in the one setting but not the other . |