Example sentences of "but by [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conditions which have initiated and sustained the Uprising have been characterised not by subversive money but by a lack of money … |
| 2 | They were not , however , modified according to any consistent principle , but by a variety of ad hoc remedies . |
| 3 | However , financial advice is not provided by the solicitors who are not registered under the Financial Services Act but by a firm of insurance brokers , Sedgwick , which has a contract with the company . |
| 4 | He had been hit , not by the bullet , but by a sliver of quartzy rock . |
| 5 | But by a quirk of technology and accounting practice , business has been more prepared to replace ageing computer equipment than upgrade it . |
| 6 | When the dispute was eventually resolved in Cyril 's favour , it was not by the Council but by a decision of the Emperor Theodosius . |
| 7 | As Fielding has shown ( 1988b ) , what counts as good police work to ordinary policemen and women is not determined by official standards of performance , but by a range of contextual factors . |
| 8 | We are Disabled not by impairment but by a range of discriminatory practices which remove or restrict our abilities and limit our opportunities . |
| 9 | Nevertheless the conservatives who manned the Juntas were not provincial separatists : they were inspired , not merely by a vague programme of reform on a national level , but by a sense of order that forced them to see the necessity of a central government . |
| 10 | Meanwhile the Nazgûl himself goes even more than usual beyond the boundaries of even ‘ romantic ’ humanity : he looks like a man , and carries a sword , but it is a ‘ pale ’ or insubstantial one ; he bursts the Gate not only by Grond but by a projection of fear and dread , ‘ words of power and terror to rend both heart and stone ’ , which work like ‘ searing lightning ’ . |
| 11 | These differences are better explained not by that kind of analogy , but by a recognition of the complex history of the text within the history of an ancient tribe — a history that is sometimes romanticized , sometimes idealized , and in which past and present are sometimes confusingly mixed . |
| 12 | But crucially ‘ Dialectics ’ was not organized by any political group , as such , but by a group of psychiatrists including R.D. Laing and David Cooper . |
| 13 | By early in the seventeenth century several of the states of Europe — France , England , the Dutch republic , Venice — already had permanent diplomatic representatives more or less securely established in Constantinope ( though the English and Dutch ones at least were for long concerned above all merely with the fostering of their countries ' trade : the former continued to be paid not by the British government but by a group of merchants , the Levant Company , until as late as the 1820s ) . |
| 14 | The transformation of postwar industrial cities was driven not by some abstract historical force but by a combination of private investment decision and state action . |
| 15 | A major merit of network planning systems such as PERT is that the structure ensures that the work content and logical sequence of jobs is not stated in potentially ambiguous groups of words but by a combination of the layout of the network and the defined symbols forming it . |
| 16 | It seems that the guardian ad litem expressed some reservations about that decision to move the children in advance of the hearing , but by a letter of 24 January the father 's solicitors said that it seemed to them that the view of the guardian ad litem was ‘ quite wrong as a matter of law . ’ |
| 17 | On this view , the exact time at which every unstable atom decayed would in fact be fully determined , but by a mechanism of which we were unaware . |
| 18 | Regarding relations with the Allies he hoped to extend his government 's rights to full sovereignty , but by a policy of friendship and reconciliation rather than through the demanding style favoured by Schumacher . |
| 19 | Throughout the training programme we discussed the ways in which people are disabled — not by limited ability but by a number of barriers that keep them apart from the activities that the rest of their communities are involved in . |
| 20 | Western historians tend to see them as alienated intellectuals motivated not by the interests of any major section of society but by a host of heterogeneous ideas , romantic and modernizing , dictatorial and democratic . |
| 21 | Cramlington , although a New Town , was not developed by a corporatist and appointed development corporation but by a partnership of two elected authorities ( county and district ) and two developers . |
| 22 | The event was dominated not by the man but by a team of ladies all from the City of Derry , they were Ann Wallace , Claire Hughes and Vivienne Houston and their professional from Cill Dara was Gerry Burke . |
| 23 | The series of books by Osbert Sitwell on his life are quite fascinating , but by no stretch of the imagination can the Sitwells be equated with ‘ ordinary ’ people — indeed , it is their eccentricities which fascinate . |
| 24 | It was flanked by two towers and its entrance was reached only by a narrow stairway , but by no stretch of the imagination could it be called a fortress . |
| 25 | It was important for the future of the English republic that Frost was succeeded not by his eldest son , who had become assistant secretary and treasurer for the council 's contingencies , but by the candidate of Oliver St John and Oliver Cromwell , John Thurloe [ qq.v . ] . |
| 26 | For example , there is evidence to suggest that a good deal of communication is achieved not so much by the online assembly of analysed items but by the adaptation of formulaic phrases ( see , for example , Pawley and Syder 1983 ) . |
| 27 | A concordat between Anderson and the horror genre was ruled out not only by Andemson 's fastidiousness , but by the inability of Hammer Studios to provide an environment in which filmmakers with a strongly defined sense of individuality could flourish . |
| 28 | The scale of these stations was dictated not only by the numbers of passengers they had to handle and the imperial power they had to represent , but by the complexity of the Indian railway operation , and the range of facilities that had to be made available to the hierarchic and heterogeneous nature of the passenger traffic . |
| 29 | I 'd made it but by the skin of my teeth . |
| 30 | We almost convince ourselves that the music is created not by the orchestra but by the tip of the baton itself , rich sounds oozing out like some exotic genie . |