Example sentences of "[noun sg] but [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This depends on such considerations as whether the wider context includes an indication of negation or counterfactuality , and also on the lexical character of the verb with which the adjective is in immediate construction , since the property of the adjective is not applied to the entity in isolation but only as part of the property complex constituted by the adjective and the verb properties taken together . |
| 2 | Through such processes , it was felt , the basis of public law was no longer to be rooted in command but rather in organization . |
| 3 | These are mainly for tin but also for zinc , lead and silver which occur in the same veins , and for wolfram and tungsten , which are used in making special steels . |
| 4 | Indeed , in many respects , such an arrangement would strengthen the independence of the auditor , not only in relation to an industry 's sponsoring department but also with respect to the potential pressures of overbearing industry chairmen . |
| 5 | The controversies and speculations will no doubt continue for many years to come and only the briefest notes will be given here to suggest some of the possibilities , without prejudice but also with realism . |
| 6 | This tendency is itself in need of sociological analysis , since it is in some respects clearly related to the social character of certain modem institutions , most obviously in advertising and market research but also in audience research and in political opinion polling . |
| 7 | On the level of ideology the Conservative Government has attempted to tackle not only a crisis of legitimation but also of motivation . |
| 8 | As consumers , we pay not only for labour but also for land . |
| 9 | The NT is obviously interested in new talent but also in staying power — track record in sustainment , as indeed they should . |
| 10 | Safeguarding , retaliation , imperial preference , protection for industry but not for agriculture , all created a web of almost infinite complexity . |
| 11 | The tenth anniversary of the civil rights movement was celebrated on 1 January 1979 amidst a growing alienation of the minority Catholic population , a rising toll not only of violence but also of poverty and unemployment in the six counties , and an increasingly unbridgeable gulf within the majority Protestant ranks , with the Official Unionists and the so-called Democratic Unionists under the Revd Ian Paisley vying with one another in intransigence and extremism . |
| 12 | To the extent that these may appear antithetical to modernism , not only in practice but also in theory , then we may find ourselves running up against the limits of our modernist frameworks of understanding . |
| 13 | This means , says Jose , that people become tied to the drug culture , not only through fear but also through gratitude . |
| 14 | Judges of the High Court who regularly hear AJRs are , presumably , expert in the law of judicial review but not in employment law which industrial tribunals deal with regularly . |
| 15 | These ends were to be achieved not by direct government action but rather by government support of unofficial or semi-official bodies such as societies and religious missions . |
| 16 | Reveille Boy , at six the same age as Phar Lap but here in receipt of eleven pounds , had won the American Derby in 1930 . |
| 17 | This has a clear relationship with Pius XI 's teaching , eight years earlier on the same subject : ‘ the very fountainhead from which the State draws its life , namely , wedlock and the family ’ ( 1929 : 14 ) , and with the dispositions of the then current Code of Canon Law which had come into effect in 1917 : ‘ The marriage of baptized persons is governed not only by divine law but also by church law . |
| 18 | Where in the past unions used to pursue claims on behalf of employees , the decline in union membership has now often been replaced by an employee-based legal expenses insurance , offering a valuable source not only of work but also of funding . |
| 19 | The history of science is of course an important part of our contemporary culture , to be considered not only in the context of the Science department 's work but also in History , Humanities , Religious Education and other fields of study , and in the process of inter-disciplinary thematic work in general . |
| 20 | The relative lack of progress in developing and disseminating models of good practice , including assessment , with older people and their families is a reflection in part of their relatively low status within professional and organizational cultures , not only within social work but also in medicine , education , and academic disciplines . |
| 21 | He moved round the room — in so far as it was possible in such cramped quarters — glad to he relieved momentarily of desk work but perhaps by way of indicating that the interview must be conducted as if we were both on the move ; and this meant that certain remarks were addressed to the window or the mantelpiece . |
| 22 | As it was , Lili chatted easily and Robert timed his eating to synchronise with her fluency ; when Lili stopped talking to eat he carried on , not in the same vein but sufficiently in harmony with her style not to upset the balance of conviviality . |
| 23 | The surplus product is controlled by the bureaucracy partly for their own benefit but mainly in response to demands from society which it would be politically dangerous to ignore . |
| 24 | At the fête Stepan Verkhovensky , the man of the 1840s , makes a speech arguing that Shakespeare matters more than boots , and Raphael more than petroleum ; whipping himself up in his peroration to declare that mankind can get on without bread but not without beauty . |
| 25 | The skills acquired from rigid planning are different in degree but not in kind from the skills required for flexible planning . |
| 26 | In so far as fairness is used within the traditional adjudicative framework the balancing involved therein may be different in degree but not in kind to that which has always gone on within natural justice itself . |
| 27 | The decision to define context not as an already given situational setting , but as " the set of possibilities which exist in the universe of discourse and situation of utterance for the interpretation of that utterance " ( Section 4 ) underlies Green 's belief that the use of deixis in lyric poetry differs in degree but not in kind ( my italics ) from its non-literary use . |
| 28 | ( If you have an approved degree but not in law , you will first need to study law for a year at the Polytechnic of Central London or the City University , and pass an appropriate examination ) . |
| 29 | In this second case a person was less aware of the actual stimulus but quickly in tune with his own associations and what he could ‘ read between the lines ’ . |
| 30 | Originally founded as an anti-negro secret society in the years after the Civil War , the Klan spread rapidly in the 1920s , not only in the South but also in mid- and far-West . |