Example sentences of "[noun pl] but [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This method — if it can be properly so called — is usually applied not to the full range of candidates but to the candidates of the voter 's favourite party . |
| 2 | This is evident not just in the personalised PWL number plates on the directors ' cars but in the results . |
| 3 | ‘ If you art hit on the torso , from head to knees but excluding the arms , that is a hit and you must return here for a penalty of five minutes . |
| 4 | The columns are ornamented in geometrical designs but on the apses , domes and walls are depicted biblical scenes with the Christ Pantacrator , apostles and saints . |
| 5 | Very often the fossil bones may be broken in place by slight earth movements but with the pieces of bone still lined up with each other , only to fall apart during later transport or during excavation . |
| 6 | We were not concerned with the front-end 's overall ability to recognise phonemes but with the kinds of problems it presented to LA . |
| 7 | A common institutional response is to be intolerant , not of the circumstances but of the patients and their families . |
| 8 | All such changes are related not only to people 's work lives but to the decisions of ( often multinational ) house building companies ; the latter increasingly investing in ‘ up-market ’ houses and retirement homes for people who have seen the value of their home rapidly increase . |
| 9 | Is it not economic nonsense that our interest rates should be dictated not by our own grave economic needs but by the interests of the German economy ? |
| 10 | Therefore , he reasoned , " a simple calculation will show that the UAE and Kuwaiti loans to Iraq were not entirely from their treasuries but from the increases in their oil revenues as a result of the drop in Iraqi oil exports over the war years " . |
| 11 | There is always interest in all aspects of the show — not just in the dogs but in the displays , the trade stands and special events . |
| 12 | From the 11th century , such events had been popular for about 500 years but over the centuries there had been great changes to the ways in which they had been conducted . |
| 13 | In the course of this reading there can be pauses for discussion at appropriate points , when carefully chosen questions can be introduced to explore possible failures in the children 's understanding , not just of terms and ideas but of the interrelationships which the syntactic structures convey . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's a human tragedy , ’ says a full-time union official , Gordon Samson , a Timex sit-in veteran and another of the officials scheduled for a court appearance , but he is referring not to the sacked workers but to the recruits . |
| 15 | This new machine would not be characterized by the ‘ commanding ’ methods of capitalist state officials but by the routines of managers and bookkeepers , ‘ functions which are already within the capacity of the average city dweller ’ ( p. 43 ) . |
| 16 | Competitors started at staggered times but with the leaders all setting off within three minutes of each other , the competition benefited from an added edge . |
| 17 | It was the logic of their medium ( the camera filmed what it saw ) and the need for stories that led producers to film aspects of their times but in the movies themselves the supremacy of fiction relegated society to a background . |
| 18 | Could it be that the stripes are intended not for the eyes of lions but for the eyes of other zebras ? |
| 19 | The equal protection cases show how important formal equality becomes when it is understood to require integrity as well as bare logical consistency , when it demands fidelity not just to rules but to the theories of fairness and justice that these rules presuppose by way of justification . |
| 20 | The contribution of the turnpikes must be measured not against the prescriptions of later ages but against the possibilities of their own . |
| 21 | The First World War curtailed his ambitions but after the hostilities his cars were at their peak and invincible . |
| 22 | Pericles , in the funeral speech attributed to him by Thucydides , was clear that a withdrawal by the citizen from public life into privacy was not acceptable : " Here each individual is interested not only in his own affairs but in the affairs of the state as well … we do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business ; we say that he has no business here at all . " |
| 23 | These taxes are levied not on particular households or firms but on the goods they buy or sell . |
| 24 | He believes all the right things but for no reasons at all or even for the wrong reasons . |
| 25 | The drives we put on against New Zealand were things that we had worked on and it was very satisfying to see them coming off , not just for the forwards but for the backs as well . |
| 26 | ‘ Remember what Nikos said : apply the analysis not to the Moslems but to the Copts . |
| 27 | De Gaulle , however , defended it not just in economic terms but on the grounds that inflation would imperil the franc and throw France on the mercy of foreigners . |
| 28 | This is what has made some people think that in this work the distinction between good and bad is simply arbitrary , residing not in the nature of the characters but in the needs of the plot . |
| 29 | My beliefs were based originally on the research and work of Dr Raymond Moody , Dr Ian Stevenson and others who have worked in the field of regression and reincarnation — not in the flamboyant , almost ‘ show-biz ’ , way of some earlier regressionists but in the interests of serious study of human spiritual evolvement . |
| 30 | The greatest single expenditure on a Nonconformist chapel came not from the Congregationalists but from the Baptists and not in England but in Scotland . |