Example sentences of "[det] but [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ellis and Shepherd ( 1974 ) first drew attention to this but a number of experiments by Young and his colleagues have failed to show any influence of age of acquisition of words on dichotic listening ( Young and Ellis , 1980 ) or tachistoscopic hemifield asymmetry ( Ellis and Young , 1977 ; Young and Bion , 1980b ) even when it is the age at which words are first read rather than heard that is under investigation ( Young , Bion and Ellis , 1982 ) . |
| 2 | Court permission has been granted to sell the property and advice is being sought as to the best way to approach this but the state of the building and the effects of the economic situation do not make for easy decisions . |
| 3 | Court permission has been granted to sell the property and advice is being sought as to the best way to approach this but the state of the building and the effects of the economic situation do not make for easy decisions . |
| 4 | Certainly , an attack on southern planning models , national legislation , and perhaps even bureaucratisation was implicit in all of this but the issue of personal culpability clouded and discredited these important points . |
| 5 | I am sorry to worry you over this but the result of the present system is that John Merer and I are barely on speaking terms . |
| 6 | ‘ Mrs Henry Cox ’ , too busy for some but a favourite with many for over a century |
| 7 | One of the things that can emerge is a great deal of mutual help , so that there is not just one group of people giving out to another but a group of people reaching out to one another . |
| 8 | The public is entitled to use the highway for passage and repassage from one place to another but the extent to which this gives an unrestricted right to hold a moving demonstration on the highway is doubtful . |
| 9 | In the early 1970s this led Weiskrantz and Warrington ( see Parkin 1987 ) to argue that the human deficit was not a failure of memory as such but a deficit in retrieval brought about by undue interference from incorrect items at the time of recall . |
| 10 | The generic label ‘ poststructuralist ’ is here useful merely as a shorthand to designate those contemporary writers who share not a hostility to history as such but a distrust of simple historicisms . |
| 11 | For Oakeshott the ‘ rationalist ’ error is the equation of reason which technique , and thus the problem is not the use of reason in politics as such but a misidentification of what constitutes reason . |
| 12 | Locus standi to argue for a relisting would seemingly not require a fresh certificate as it would not constitute an appeal as such but an application to the House to exercise an inherent jurisdiction to re-open an appeal , analogous to that developed by the Court of Appeal , in order to do justice under the scheme of the Criminal Appeal Act 1968 . |
| 13 | She had seen little but the outline of him , and the walk , which was individual enough to be remembered , once seen ; rapid and vehement , with a long stride that barely lit upon the earth before leaving it again as vigorously . |
| 14 | Not only that but a change in methods of working , in its ethos and what were seen as its privileges , such as index-linked pensions , was to follow . |
| 15 | Not simply a resurrection in people 's minds — I might well grant that but a resurrection as an objective fact of history , so that it could be said that the causal nexus of history and that of nature were broken ( for there are not resurrections ) . |
| 16 | Not only that but a drought in Maharashtra in 1987 and 1988 , probably the most severe of the century in the subcontinent , has caused barely a ripple of news interest in the world . |
| 17 | Not only that but the decline of capitalism was of such a character each step taken represented a positive move in the direction of socialism . |
| 18 | All but a couple of the bidders were too preoccupied to notice the latecomers . |
| 19 | We are all but a part of a whole which has its own , its distinct , its other meaning : we are not ourselves , we are crossroads , meeting places , points on a curve , we can not exist independently for we are nothing but signs , conjunctions , aggregations . |
| 20 | The failure of these traditional local economic strategies to stimulate and sustain local economic growth in all but a minority of places has led to the development of new forms of policy . |
| 21 | Then , to build upon that simple , flat definition of the hedge 's shape , pastel No. 199 , black , was scribbled across the same area , covering all but a strip at the top with an irregular criss-crossing scrawl . |
| 22 | You would have to be a professional cobbler-up of sit-coms to give much credence to the available scenarios , but just in case , I suppose they are that : a ) the tests were so incompetently performed that even a baboon 's sample would have produced the same reading as was clocked by the three athletes identically ; b ) the three runners were having a joke at the testers ' expense ; c ) the German trio was deliberately testing the vigilance of the drug monitors at a relatively out-of-the-way venue , for reasons of their own ; d ) that the samples were not urine at all but a draught of refreshing Lucozade , tested in error . |
| 23 | Is n't that all but a miniature of your poor dead mother , God rest her ? |
| 24 | is regarded as the most expensive grain in the world , and is n't really a rice at all but a type of grass . |
| 25 | At the Huntsman 's Inn in Ide , Kent , the refurbishment proposals were to involve demolitions so extensive that all but a portion of the building 's external wall would be destroyed , the planned reconstruction included an extension that would double the size of the original structure . |
| 26 | Yet all but a fraction of the carbon in living things originates as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere ; as we will discuss below , it is turned into organic molecules by plants by the process of photosynthesis . |
| 27 | Halliday and Hasan do not discuss this type of referential linkage and Hoey ( 1988 : 162 ) points out that co-reference ‘ is not strictly a linguistic feature at all but a matter of real-world knowledge ’ . |
| 28 | If anything , his face was even more horrific , lacking as it did all but a travesty of humanity ; despite his animation , it still most resembled a helmet , a metal helmet with visor down , roughly shaped to conform to the outlines of a human face . |
| 29 | As we shall see in 6.3 , the interrupt facility can be expanded to switch instruction sequences on the occurrence of many different events ; further we will see the need for a means of ensuring that at critical times the computer is able to ignore all but a subset of these events . |
| 30 | He was received in a friendly fashion by the master of a French Basque ship of St Jean-de-Luz , who then turned on him , imprisoned him and his men , and stripped the Pilgrim of all but a minimum of food and sails . |