Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adj] but [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This list is by no means exhaustive but broadly covers the field . |
| 2 | For all these reasons the apparently draconian central powers contained in the 1984 Rates Act had a surprisingly limited effect in terms not only of the numbers of authorities rate-capped but also in terms of the capping limits actually imposed . |
| 3 | So I think erm Hertfordshire 's voice should be heard and however , my resolution asks us to look at the possibility of opposing not only the building of terminal five but all further airport expansion in the South East be it at Heathrow , Stansted , Gatwick or Luton . |
| 4 | As we have seen , this is no longer done in terms of remedies available but mainly by reference to the idea of ‘ public functions ’ . |
| 5 | Differences in socioeconomic conditions , however , were found to provide a partial explanation for the relatively low attainment not only of West Indian but probably also of Bangladeshi children . |
| 6 | Eventually in 1858 Earl Stanhope moved in the House of Lords that the Queen should be petitioned by Parliament to remove from the Prayer Book the services which commemorated not only the death of Charles I but also the accession of Charles II in 1660 , the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 , and the landing of William of Orange in 1688 . |
| 7 | Begun in 1446 by Henry VI as a private place of worship for just 70 scholars it took no less than 69 years to build , being completed in 1515 on the instructions of Henry VII but only after his death . |
| 8 | These words , which reflect what was said by Sir George Jessel M.R. in 1879 , seem to be wholly consistent not just with the wording of section 236 but also with the purposes of the administration as set out in section 8(3) of the Act of 1986 and in particular : |
| 9 | This is not only good for comparison later but also adds another idea to the teaching unit for this class . |
| 10 | West Venture was acquired in March 1988 but only began to make significant sales this year . |
| 11 | A scheme under which producers would have held supplies back from the market , approved in March 1988 but never implemented due to a shortage of funds , was formally abandoned . |
| 12 | These incentives had been suspended before Collor took office in March 1990 but reportedly reactivated in January 1991 . |
| 13 | I will expand on what I mean by discourse in Chapter 10 but here it is sufficient to say that ‘ discourse ’ refers to the structured features of cultural processes when groups of signs become signifying elements in themselves . |
| 14 | The UN Security Council had approved in April the creation of a UN Operation in Somalia ( Unosom — see also p. 38855 ) , with a 50-strong group of military observers in UN uniform , and UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on June 23 announced the decision to send in this group , whose task would be to monitor a ceasefire which had been signed by the two main militias in February 1992 but never implemented . |
| 15 | Ironically , on the day when the knives were out for Taylor , his main support came not just from the man he took over from in July 1990 but also from Terry Venables , a potential successor . |
| 16 | Kate Collingwood , who had read Modern Greats at Oxford and was well-known as a luminary of the Kelvedon Players , gave up her seat as a Labour county councillor , was appointed in November 1954 but eventually resigned in December 1957 . |
| 17 | The text was based on a draft treaty between Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union initialled in October 1991 but never signed [ see pp. 38540-41 ] . |
| 18 | It won 11 seats in October 1974 but only 2 in 1979 and 1983 , despite fighting all Scottish seats . |
| 19 | Ernst , García-Díaz and Hauser ( 1987 a ) have shown that an Ehlers transformation ( 12.13 ) applied to the Ernst function of the Nutku-Halil solution ( 13.3 ) , together with a simple coordinate transformation , yields a non-colinear generalization of the Ferrari Ibañez soliton solution that was described in Section 10.4 but only with even integer values of the parameter α . |
| 20 | Now breathe in slowly as you did in Step 1 but gradually raise your arms overhead in time with the inhalation until the backs of your hands touch the floor . |
| 21 | Summerhill Gift , the ‘ 525 ’ track record holder , also has to run from the middle in heat 11 but again , he too should have enough ability to overcome this problem . |
| 22 | In addition NT has extreme disk space demands for a desktop environment , approximately 50Mb , a severe increase over the 20Mb needed for Windows 3.1 but better than a typical RISC/Unix set-up . |
| 23 | In vitro data show that sulphate reducing bacteria outcompete methanogens for H 2 but only if sufficient sulphate is available . |
| 24 | It draws , therefore , mostly on category 4 but also to some extent on categories 2 and 3 . |
| 25 | This approach draws mostly on category 3 but also to some extent on categories 1 and 4 . |
| 26 | A fourth round of peace talks , adjourned since November , between the government and the Simón Bolívar National Guerrilla Co-ordinating Group ( CNGSB ) , jointly representing the FARC , ELN and the Popular Liberation Party ( EPL ) , opened in Tlaxcala , Mexico , on March 10 but quickly broke down [ see pp. 38187 ; 38283 ; 38333 ; 38387 ; 38433 ; 38570 for earlier talks ] . |
| 27 | Yeah , well I wrote down f sharp but then I realised |
| 28 | In a concession to Ecuadorean demands , Fujimori accepted Borja 's proposal , made at the UN General Assembly on Sept. 30 but then rejected by Peru , that the Vatican arbitrate the dispute , albeit at the request of the Rio de Janeiro protocol signatories . |
| 29 | That rapid demise merely underlined the value of Neil Fairbrother 's unbeaten 64 and last night the Lancashire captain was not only savouring thoughts of a trip to Lord 's on July 10 but also smiling about his entry into cricket history . |
| 30 | The C.-in-C. of the Army , Gen. Hérard Abraham , was dismissed on July 2 but later claimed that he had retired " for personal reasons " . |