Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] but [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dockers even today , see they 're still got the , still got the erm National Dock Labour Board but now the employers wan na do away with it . |
| 2 | Penalty shootouts were required in each instance but only the most optimistic fan — or a representative from the Guinness Book of Records — would have forecast it happening again . |
| 3 | Greece thus offers not only the first instance of this change but also the essential one for any attempt to isolate the cultural consequences of alphabetic literacy ’ ( ibid. p. 42 ) . |
| 4 | This was not a one-off experience but rather the culmination of many experiments , much discussion and thoughtful provision of leading ideas by the teacher . |
| 5 | Answer guide : They have no direct effect but often the debtor is the other side of the sales entry . |
| 6 | He tried to distance the party from the question of public ownership but then the shadow Scottish secretary , Tom Clarke , acknowledged the possibility of private Scottish companies operating under a Labour government . |
| 7 | The Templeton series on district general managers confirmed the importance of this issue but also the lack of progress . |
| 8 | Thus the coastline receives not only the products of marine erosion but also the waste derived from subaerial erosion . |
| 9 | And and I think that 's why this particular policy is very important to the Selby district because it allows us to address the balance between meeting what I would call the justifiable development but also the equally important environmental consideration . |
| 10 | My contention is that the main cause of the British predicament has not been the British economy but rather the decline of sterling and the failure of British policy to adapt to that decline … . |
| 11 | To approach someone with a microphone and an innocent smile , asking for ‘ some natural conversational English , if you would be so kind ’ , guarantees the acoustic quality but hardly the linguistic content . |
| 12 | Its most likely function would be to enable one speaker to convey not only the matter of a remark by another speaker but also the manner in which it was made . |
| 13 | The full 13 parts are to be shown later this year but only the very-hard-to-please will jib at the prospect of seeing these three programmes again . |
| 14 | Concepts such as ’ semantically correct ’ and ’ semantically incorrect ’ remain somewhat contentious , and in practice are inessential to the text recognition problem : the measure of success is not found in adherence to some formal semantic proof but simply the ability to choose the same word as a human observer would . |
| 15 | They are social history but also the lightly disguised story of Flora Thompson 's youth . |
| 16 | The decided cases do not yet give a clear answer to this problem but presumably the retention of title clause would entitle the seller to take and re-sell such of the timber he had supplied under this contract as remained unsold and unmixed in the buyer 's possession . |
| 17 | slightly different material but substantially the same n nature same scale of development , I believe that we have a track record that shows that we were are tough and will continue to be tough I |
| 18 | ‘ As you can imagine it has been total panic but fortunately the suppliers have been very co-operative and we will be ready . ’ |
| 19 | Yet there were many even among his admirers who acknowledged that there were latent dangers in having the country who were certain to provide the numerically strongest contingent additionally furnishing not just the manager and assistant coach but also the captain . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Not only is each person 's recovery a highly individual process but also the ideas and techniques of individual recovery , group processes and treatment centre programmes are all continuingly and progressively evolving . |
| 22 | University-trained lawyers dominated the civil service but only the highest posts gave social prestige . |
| 23 | They do not question the need for such training but only the practicality of it . |
| 24 | The financial accounts for a building company would not give any indication of the profit or loss on any individual project but only the financial position of the company as a whole . |
| 25 | In 1990 Johnston and Hatch had been a most feared combination but now the former has returned to his old stamping ground at Bishop Auckland for one final fling before retiring . |
| 26 | Herzberg ( 1966 ) argued that we need to take into account not just the needs and motivations of the individual worker but also the context within which they are operating . |
| 27 | Tacit collusion , on the other hand , would involve no explicit agreement but simply the unspoken acceptance by the two firms that it was in their best interests each to produce half the monopoly output on the understanding that failure to do so would provoke a price war . |
| 28 | He added : ‘ The IRA , for too long , has been able to conceal its real sectarianism but recently the mask has begun to slip as they become more desperate for political success . ’ |
| 29 | There are many who will never forget that sad time but now the East Lindsey coastline has a happy atmosphere ; sometimes throbbing with the joy of summer seaside thrills but more constantly pulsating gently in natural tranquility , . |
| 30 | So you , so I , I , I do n't agree with you on that point but anyway the point of refining , the point of refining the capital programme is there is an im implication of , of , of debt repayment er , which is part of revenue , which could have an implication er , upon how we reach our reductions . |