Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] but [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can the buyer also choose to take over some assets or some operations but not others ? |
| 2 | Some of the signals are scrambled and , depending on where you live , your aerial will be able to ‘ see ’ some satellites but not others . |
| 3 | I have done little to remedy that myself , except to fall back on the preferred notion of level , which at least can begin to explicate how things can be reached by effort at some times but not others . |
| 4 | However States do not always do this and there can also be uncertainty with respect to individual provisions which can be in force as between some parties but not others . |
| 5 | The proposed tax would bring carbon-rich fuels in line with natural gas , which is taxed in some countries but not others . |
| 6 | Until recently they were thought to be primitive primates but now science has put them firmly among the insectivores . |
| 7 | Now we turn to non-consensual influences , differentiated influences , factors that affected some individuals but not others , or that affected different individuals in different ways . |
| 8 | With regard to HBV , markers of past or current infection have been found more commonly in patients with alcoholic liver disease than in the general population in some studies but not others . |
| 9 | He 's given me a few jokes but only ones he used a long time ago ! ’ |
| 10 | We have been arguing here for a view of the state in which governments are managing not only class and social relations but also individuals . |
| 11 | Explain how and why it improves some files but not others . |
| 12 | They satisfy some objectives but not others . |
| 13 | Like the twelfth floor , glimpsed through the lift doors when the girls had got out , the walls were covered with a pale lemon wash , unlike the twelfth they were hung with pictures , not Old Masters but not Boots the chemists either — prints of hunting scenes and ships and a beautiful soft sunset over a bay that might have been St Ives — pictures deemed suitable for the Executive floor of a great international company . |
| 14 | Unless the externality can be priced ( charging suburban users but not city dwellers for entry to subsidized galleries and opera houses ) , the most efficient solution is to widen the geographical area of each local government until it includes most of the people who will use the public services it provides . |
| 15 | Frost-hardening may affect some tissues but not others ; it is not unusual for well-established tissues to be hardened but for buds and growing shoots to be nipped by frost . |
| 16 | In order to explain why only some women but not others who experience such problems develop depression , they suggest that other social factors ( such as a lack of a confiding relationship in marriage ) make some women more vulnerable than others . |
| 17 | By the eighteenth century the position in Rome had become so impossible ( since not merely considerable areas around foreign embassies but also churches and the houses of cardinals offered refuge to criminals ) that the papal police had to be equipped with special maps to show them which streets they were permitted to pass through . |
| 18 | If you think about and watch the settings of your child 's behaviour , it may be that he or she behaves in a non-compliant way , or has a tantrum on some occasions but not others ; that is , some situations seem to act as cues for him or her to behave in a particular way . |
| 19 | What the cultural sociologist or the cultural historian studies are the social practices and social relations which produce not only ‘ a culture ’ or ‘ an ideology ’ but , more significantly , those dynamic actual states and works within which there are not only continuities and persistent determinations but also tensions , conflicts , resolutions and irresolutions , innovations and actual changes . |
| 20 | He said we are dealing with a conflict of evidence between two friendly countries but even friends can disagree . |
| 21 | Not only future proposals but also information about the present financial position of schools must be made available for reference both to parents and to others , in education offices and public libraries . |
| 22 | Your dog will need a check-up every six months but once EPI has been confirmed , he should n't need any more tests . |
| 23 | ‘ Committees ’ means both actual committees but also individuals or organisers listed as committees . |
| 24 | At the same time the general level of wealth in this unremarkable corner of the East Midlands , peopled entirely by peasant farmers , with a leavening of yeomen and only a handful of rich squires , was lower only than on the fertile cornlands of Norfolk and in the opulent Stour Valley manufacturing district — higher not only than in other , similar regions but also Berkshire , which the yield of the loans , 1522 — 3 , placed fifth jointly with Suffolk , and Gloucestershire which shared fourteenth place with Rutland itself . |
| 25 | Secondly , mirroring the extension of the law 's concern to notions of social harm has been a widening of the conceptions of deviant and enforcer to include not only individual actors but also organizations . |
| 26 | However , schemes can discriminate indirectly — for instance , by admitting personal assistants but not secretaries , and full-timers but not part-time employees — and many do . |
| 27 | Consequently , specialist workshops sprung up , supplying not only off-the-peg shrouds but also coffin linings and other associated items of soft goods . |
| 28 | The 1882 act was the first attempt at an effective conservation law in Britain ; it is the father of all the legislation which protects not just ancient monuments and historic buildings but also sites of scientific importance . |
| 29 | The creations are totally different and have some dissimilar effects but both creations have not been controlled by their creators so they have had disastrous consequences . |
| 30 | Tourism , served by some large hotels but mainly bed and breakfast facilities in many croft houses , is of considerable significance . |