Example sentences of "but [adj] of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the layman they were neither beautiful nor exciting , but redolent of the search for the Loch Ness monster , sunken ships and hidden treasure . |
| 2 | She was stifling , she was being crushed , overwhelmed , and the hard man 's body against her was not Neil 's but that of the man who had … who … had … and panic ensued , all-enveloping panic , uncontrollable . |
| 3 | My contention is that what is really strange is not the behaviour of the child but that of the adult . |
| 4 | The test is not based on a property lawyers view of the world but that of the businessman . |
| 5 | Eliot gives us not plovers ' sympathetic magic but that of the Turdus aonalaschkae pallasii whose ‘ waterdripping song ’ is justly celebrated' . |
| 6 | Third , that certain factors in avant-garde culture , and especially the conscious breaks from ‘ traditional ’ styles , have to be analysed not only in formal terms but within the sociology of metropolitan encounters and associations between immigrants who share no common language but that of the metropolis and whose other ( including visual ) received sign-systems have become distanced or irrelevant . |
| 7 | As their point of departure , linguists need to adopt a frame of reference which is not that of the linguist but that of the educationalist . |
| 8 | This was not the shooting of an ordinary man , but that of the president of the United States . |
| 9 | Considerable progress has been made in analysing the functions of the visual areas in the parietal lobe , but little of the evidence favours a role in object recognition . |
| 10 | The decline has occurred since the 1950s , but little of the mistletoe on sale came from British sources . |
| 11 | But this was a warrior king who had all the trappings but little of the reality of war . |
| 12 | Gooch was chief hero with 92 and Lamb again showed what a good one-day player he is , but 22 of the total of 269 were wides that West Indies could ill afford . |
| 13 | But some of the sting is gone . |
| 14 | But some of the country 's economic difficulties have direct and indirect effects on provision . |
| 15 | But some of the astonishment was that we had Clark here resident in Edinburgh to show us in magnificent playing , the possibilities of this music . |
| 16 | When he visited Ottery in August 1793 his brothers reluctantly agreed to help him ; but some of the money they supplied was frittered away on the journey back to Cambridge , and when he got there he discovered a host of forgotten debts . |
| 17 | But some of the mystique surrounding the presidency had gone for ever , and future holders of the office were bound to be scrutinized more closely than ever before . |
| 18 | She turned down the heat quicKly but some of the fat had splashed on to the flames and the blue smoke increased in density . |
| 19 | ‘ We will keep the ones which are really historic but some of the rest are in such poor condition they will have to be demolished . ’ |
| 20 | I know , but I mean But some of the stuff is brilliant . |
| 21 | It was exhilarating stuff from the RLPO strings and brass , but some of the weight of the piece went foundering . |
| 22 | The belemnoids disappear from the fossil record at the end of the Cretaceous , but some of the group gave rise to living squid-like animals , and so they are not to be regarded as extinct in the same , final way as the ammonoids . |
| 23 | But some of the world 's greatest chefs will be breaking that rule at next week 's BBC Good Food Cooking and Kitchen Show in Birmingham . |
| 24 | Two years later , a great deal has changed , but some of the danger still persists . |
| 25 | All right , many of the audience would find it puzzling to have a middle-aged woman playing the juvenile role , but some of the audience would recognize just what they were hearing . |
| 26 | The stars and the supporting cast , even the crew , have moved into the Technicolor age and prospered ; but some of the audience are dead , others mutilated . |
| 27 | Most of the words and phrases are obviously toasts and are part of the conviviality of a drinking party , but some of the Trier vessels also bear painted portraits of deities , demonstrating a link with the gods . |
| 28 | From 1 January 1993 border controls on intra-EC movements of goods were relaxed , but some of the information previously collected at the frontiers instead has to be submitted in the form of monthly returns to HM Customs & Excise . |
| 29 | But some of the information takes months to emerge , let alone learn , and the pain of joining is the pain of gathering enough written , verbal and non-verbal information to ‘ learn the ropes ’ . |
| 30 | As a former reporter I devour newsprint with the appetite of a motorised refuse truck , but some of the garbage that has been written about myself and other women MPs deserves instant binning . |