Example sentences of "[noun] but [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His parents had neglected this aspect of his upbringing , having largely abandoned their religion but for a few outer forms before he was born . |
| 2 | As a result history is driven not by ideas and religion but by the economic basis of our culture . |
| 3 | They are thus not simply a mentality derived from popular religion but from a traditional Roman catholicism which held sway in catholic Europe from the post-Reformation period and remained unchallenged until the 1960s . |
| 4 | Er P C er used the door opener which is a hydraulic system er it 's a jack type principal that when activated er forces the frame apart at the side but at the same time should exert pressure onto the door and then er knock should knock it in very quickly . |
| 5 | The Netherlands views itself not only as a trader and distributor of LPG but as a major user . |
| 6 | Moreover , in determining what is extraordinary or unreasonable the courts can have regard not only to the interests of the defendant but to the public interest as well . |
| 7 | He too received his higher education not in the metropole but in a newly-founded colonial college , thus opening up horizons which previously would have been closed to Indonesians like him . |
| 8 | The acuteness of the goods famine must certainly be alleviated and not in some remote future but during the next few years . |
| 9 | Ultrasonic waves are sound waves but of a higher frequency ( pitch ) than the human ear can hear . |
| 10 | S. F Perry saw the exercise not as a disappointment but as an heartening indicator of future progress : |
| 11 | He saw human beings not as a mass of contradictions but as a particular sort of person — a great nobleman or a poor scholar or a spotty-faced announcer from the BBC . |
| 12 | These lovely plants may take time to form large flowering clumps but after a few years are a sight to behold and are worth every bit of effort you expend . |
| 13 | He saw them not as a party of racial obsession but as a right-wing ginger group to keep the Conservative party on the proper lines . |
| 14 | ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK : ‘ Sailing On The Seas ’ ( Virgin ) synthetic pop duo of yore back minus Paul Humpreys but with the same old brash , electronic burping — out on Monday |
| 15 | Some magnetic mounts could be done in order to fully utilise all available units but with a larger proportion of the work going to the faster unit . |
| 16 | The Karen I had known a few months earlier , a simple , straightforward creature with healthy appetites , had been metamorphosed by my spells into a raving obsessive who regarded the spawning of offspring not as a lowest-common-denominator activity like excretion but as a moral and creative achievement on a par with , say , painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling . |
| 17 | I carried on with the Debenham players getting small parts almost every year in the pantomimes , they were n't major acting roles but for a nine , ten , eleven year old child they sufficed . |
| 18 | Yes , it was not so much a deletion as er a reduction in the numbers because we were very mindful erm in going through the requirement erm and not making significant changes as far as the U K was concerned and we needed to make some savings in cost if at all possible and therefore we carried out a very comprehensive review of all the items of role equipment such as drop tanks er pylons , explosive release units and those type of things which had been provisionally earmarked for a very high intensive and fairly long running conflict and it was felt that if we were to make some savings then it was a sensible balance to reduce those numbers on the basis that we could save some money in the programme but at the same time many of these items could be bought later on at relatively short notice , clearly not within a conflict but in the years to come . |
| 19 | After the banning of the CPSU these liberal groups decided to form a new left-wing party based not on a new programme but on the liberal and , in essence , social democratic programme of the CPSU . |
| 20 | A good course programme but with a poor instructor led to more trainee dissatisfaction than a good instructor with a moderate programme . |
| 21 | It may be questioned whether such elaborate surveillance ( engaged in not only by the KGB but to a greater or lesser extent by other security organizations ) is really necessary or produces results commensurate with the time , energy and expense involved in the operations . |
| 22 | Subjects low in musical aptitude showed larger between ear differences on tests of chord analysis than did subjects of greater aptitude but within the same aptitude level there was no effect of experience . |
| 23 | The auditing profession er argues , and I must say the audit practice board 's er er proposals are very , for very passive auditing , the audit profession argues that it 's difficult to detect fraud but on the other hand er the local government er act er local government finance act of nineteen eighty two requires local authority auditors to have er er er a duty to search for unlawful acts and report on them . |
| 24 | Her is an illustrated story to be lingered over and added to with discussion by adult readers or those introducing children not only to the magic of adventure and solid drawing but to the underlying message that is a sober reminder of our obligations to the life and lives of the earth . |
| 25 | Nigel Terry plays him most intelligently , not just as a mercenary hit-man but as a soft-spoken scholar obsessed by mortality . |
| 26 | Men with a low body mass index in later life were relatively protected against the susceptibility to glucose intolerance stemming from their low birth weights , while 17% of those of low birth weight but with a high body mass index later in life were frankly diabetic . |
| 27 | As its name implies , the SMG is based not in Hounslow but in the huge Asian community of Southall , in the neighbouring borough of Ealing . |
| 28 | Indeed some of these reforms were later put forward by the Hussites but with the Hussite Wars , this great period of cathedral building came to an end . |
| 29 | The Government 's response was a new scheme , introduced in 1997 after two years of negotiation and dispute with the POA , called ‘ Fresh Start ’ , under which prison officers can opt to work either 39 or 48 hours per week without overtime but with an improved basic salary . |
| 30 | The result was that sometimes members of the family or others who went to her for help came away empty-handed , however great their needs or deserts might be ; Addy never used need as a yardstick But on the other side of the medal were the occasions , such as this one , when she volunteered something you 'd never have dreamed of asking for , and you were free to accept it because you knew she 'd be disappointed , not relieved , if you refused . |