Example sentences of "[pn reflx] but [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final example is perhaps an unexpected mathematical experience as there is no discussion of the tower itself but rather the child has been carried to the top of the high tower in his imagination and asked to look down at the people below . |
| 2 | Thus , most economists agree that the key issue is not ownership itself but rather the severity of the market competition , or its substitute government competition policy , which the industry faces . |
| 3 | His huge diocese , covering not only Northumbria itself but also the tributary territories of the Picts and the Irish colonies in western Scotland , his riches , and the numbers of his monasteries and his followers , made him very much a prince bishop . |
| 4 | The other major task is to look again at the ‘ learning difficulties ’ modules — not only the modules themselves but also the way in which they are grouped in the Catalogue . |
| 5 | On the other hand , if the option is not exercised , the purchaser not only loses the initial value paid for the options themselves but also the commission paid on the shares he or she did not buy . |
| 6 | Conversely , if people take account of the costs to themselves but not the burden on the National Health Service in deciding whether or not to smoke and damage their health , society may regard smoking as a merit bad that should be discouraged . |