Example sentences of "but [adv] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It appears that these penalties have been based very much on the default surcharge , but thankfully the level of penalty does appear to be significantly lower , though the period of penalty is much longer . |
| 2 | But mostly the ethos of Eagle was too remote from my working-class existence . |
| 3 | coast of Benbecula and S. Uist ( Ritchie , 1966 , 1979 , 1985 ; Currie , 1979 ) also suggest that the frequency of westerly storms must have been less prior to 4000 B.P. As Currie ( 1979 p. 227 ) suggests , ‘ the stumps remaining are not likely to be an indication of forest , but rather the evidence of such sheltered locations where small woods survived the climatic conditions , often in areas which are now submerged by the sea ’ . |
| 4 | However , the decline in regular formal inspection did not mean the abandoning of inspection but rather the development of a variety of types suited to particular purposes . |
| 5 | There are strong grounds for limiting the sample size of the investigation because it is not the number of countries per se which is usually important , but rather the range of variation which they provide ( Walker , 1967 ) . |
| 6 | He can then argue that once one has advanced beyond the superstition that all desire is for oneself having pleasure , one has no reason of principle for denying the apparent fact that some desire is directed at occurrences not involving oneself at all , but rather the welfare of others . |
| 7 | He never rehearsed the performance , but rather the technique of the music , leaving his emotional response to the inspiration of the concert and expecting a well-prepared orchestra to be entirely responsive to this . |
| 8 | Not the lofty creation of some Turin styling studio , but rather the realisation of men with rather higher ideals . |
| 9 | It is not the entirely understandable worries about the choice of South Africa as the tournament venue when that country is in so delicate a political — and hence economically sensitive — state , but rather the veil of secrecy that seems to shroud all commercial aspects of the next World Cup event . |
| 10 | Death , too , was not the end , but rather the beginning of a new phase of existence . |
| 11 | If I say ‘ Prostitution is on the increase ’ I express my belief that it is on the increase , but what I put upon the mat for discussion is not my holding the belief , but rather the state of affairs , which I hold to be actual , but which others may not , of prostitution being on the increase . |
| 12 | For days now there had been no news from France , evidence that the Emperor had forbidden all traffic over the border , but that silence did not necessarily suggest an immediate invasion , but rather the concealment of exactly where the French forces concentrated . |
| 13 | This phenomenon is related to the last , but concerns not the translation of procedures from programs/software to machines/hardware , but rather the translation of procedures from one level of programming language to another . |
| 14 | Nobay ( 1970 ) in his econometric study concluded that low profits were not so much the cause of low levels of investment , but rather the result of slow expansion of manufacturing output , accentuated by stop-go policies . |
| 15 | It must be stressed that the courts are not challenging the merits of the decision but rather the power of the body in question to reach that particular decision . |
| 16 | In her case , the function is not the straightforward reduction of repetitiveness , but rather the creation of constantly rising expectations which she can then try to meet . |
| 17 | That process of appropriation , Koons 's lawyer argued , is not plagiarism , but rather the creation of an entirely new work . |
| 18 | It was not Billingsley 's physical size that provoked that fear , for I was of a size with him , nor was it his profession that gave me pause , but rather the aura of incipient violence that he radiated like a blast furnace . |
| 19 | And what was tending to happen here , as the Scottish Typographical Circular regularly reported , was not so much a division of labour between women on straight setting and men on other processes , but rather the diversion of certain kinds of typesetting from the linesmen ( male piece-workers ) to the women , who were not only paid much less but who were also considered by some employers to be actually better at it . |
| 20 | It was n't that this dispute between my dad and me about whether there was a God or not really meant anything any more , but rather the fact of the history of the dispute — the reality of its course , not the substance of the original disagreement — was what prevented me from ending it . |
| 21 | Often , it is not brand new R&D that is needed at all , but rather the application of existing knowledge to a wide range of problems and processes within manufacturing industry . |
| 22 | Parents are no longer told what methods to adopt , but rather the frame of mind in which to adopt them . |
| 23 | The apparently fragmented organization of the state apparatus represents not polyarchic pressures but rather the outcome of intra-state conflicts or the deliberate fragmentation and disorganisation of policy-making by state officials . |
| 24 | This was not a one-off experience but rather the culmination of many experiments , much discussion and thoughtful provision of leading ideas by the teacher . |
| 25 | If the EEC is to compete in post-GATT world markets , it is not the number of farmers which matters but rather the quality of their output . |
| 26 | My contention is that the main cause of the British predicament has not been the British economy but rather the decline of sterling and the failure of British policy to adapt to that decline … . |
| 27 | However , the completion of the White Paper Programme and the achievement of the ‘ 1992 ’ objectives is not an end in itself , but rather the accomplishment of one important step in the creation of a truly unified European Economic Community . |
| 28 | The last three categories are not offered as examples of good text construction , but rather the sort of thing to avoid . |
| 29 | This should not be interpreted as an attempt to violate the contract , but rather the desire of the Japanese to allow both sides the ability to adjust to unforeseen circumstances . |
| 30 | 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 . |