Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] but [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This completed the mysterious Trinity to the satisfaction of the prevailing priesthood but merely added to the confusion of thoughtful people for generations to come . |
| 2 | Areas to be covered by a common foreign security policy would be decided by consensus by the European Council but thereafter decisions on these issues could be decided by a weighted majority . |
| 3 | Crusaders , of course , had hopes of playing the European Cup but agonizingly lost out on goal difference to Linfield . |
| 4 | Now when it 's opened it 's useful as a sling , two sorts of slings we 're going to do , high sling and the low sling but also if you fold it , it 's very useful as a bandage too , if you put it across your knee , then you bring the point up towards you like that and then again , fold it the base up to the top again . |
| 5 | To comprehend some of the problems faced by British government in the 1980s it is necessary to know not only the structure and relationships of the political system but also the popular expectations and the burden of responsibilities borne by government . |
| 6 | It is the base for a large measure of individual and social mobilization to activate , extend or defend those rights , not simply in the political sphere but more generally in the areas of cultural , economic and social life . |
| 7 | Should you still be unable to contact Matron , go to the Lower Office but only in an emergency . |
| 8 | Parliament crossed him , always with the greatest respect but implacably , criticised his use of the council to levy an aid for the marriage of his elder daughter without consulting them , doubted if there was a precedent recent enough to justify the aid , and periodically and obstinately restated to him the principle that the king should live ‘ of his own ’ , without demanding that parliament should raise money by taxes for his expenses . |
| 9 | There is one , sometimes two , pointed apical papilla flanked on each side by 5–6 oral papillae , the proximal ones are pointed similar in shape to the apical papilla but distally they become rounded , and the distalmost one is large and opercular . |
| 10 | The adoral shields are overlain proximally by the oral shield but distally slightly widened , and in large specimens separate the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 11 | This belief not only increases the beneficial effects of the specific therapy but also helps him to become more confident in general as well as in his ability to change anything about himself or his life that he does not like . |
| 12 | Now the reason I I make that suggestion is that erm Policy A two for example looks at not only the erm quality of the agricultural land but also the effect of development proposals on erm the maintenance and economically viable erm farm units and so forth . |
| 13 | They are produced mainly for the agricultural community but also include some geochemical data . |
| 14 | Not just meeting the right person at the right time but also developing at the same pace so that you both have the same needs and expectations from life at roughly the same time . |
| 15 | It is then a relatively simply matter to pretend to put the coin in the right hand but secretly retain it to put in the collar . |
| 16 | You may remember E. Nesbit , the great children 's writer and inventer of the family of Wouldbegoods , who were very English , trying to do the right thing but often falling over themselves — or others — when it came to practice . |
| 17 | It is a fortified monastery , restored in the nineteenth century but still containing a beautiful Romanesque nave ( see p. 11 ) and taller Gothic choir . |
| 18 | Electroencephalography , it is true , had its origins in the nineteenth century but only in recent years has there been an acceleration of interest in lateralised electrophysiological phenomena . |
| 19 | It should not , Mr Mayor , definitely not be used simply as an easy option for those who could manage quite happily to provide for themselves , either renting or buying in the private sector but instead choose to let the state provide . |
| 20 | The rights incorporated into the private key , then , depend not only on the lawful acquisition of the private key but also upon the text of the carrier 's valid receipt message . |
| 21 | With a repayment mortgage , you pay back a monthly sum which is not only a proportion of the outstanding debt but also interest on the remainder . |
| 22 | They innovated as far as possible under the 1948 Act but eventually secured a further Act , in 1963 , which legitimated ‘ preventive ’ work . |
| 23 | The Brotherhood has immense economic power which was at first based on its control of the ground-nut trade but later on a diversified portfolio of business interests , many of them urban . |
| 24 | During Teotihuaca/n times in the Veracruz wetlands there may have been occasional impounding of swamp water late in the dry season but perhaps not the sustained maintenance of water levels as happened in the chinampas . |
| 25 | Address the document to Fred in the usual way but also send a blind copy to a folder called 193O728 — named after the date on which you wish to be reminded , in reverse . |
| 26 | SATURDAY was the official date for the quarter-finals of the Scottish Cup but only three of them were played . |
| 27 | The Spanish growers may be doing their best to provide tomatoes acceptable to the English market but evidently English varieties and the Spanish soil and climatic conditions just do n't suit each other . |
| 28 | Commitment not only to the extended family but also to the nuclear , two-parent family will diminish as men fail to adjust to the aspirations of educated women , and more women follow the long-established practice in coastal west Africa of running their own households . |
| 29 | A ring is an arrangement whereby several dealers all of whom are interested I in a given item agree not to compete in outbidding each other at the public auction but instead to allow one of their number to buy it as cheaply as possible . |
| 30 | Any delay in arriving at a solution will be due not to our being on the wrong track but simply to the enormous complexity of the problem . |