Example sentences of "but by a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm it 's a pretty close run thing but by a narrow majority , your new chairman is Graham . |
| 2 | But by a kindly error of the doorman 's watch they were just in time . |
| 3 | In all the major states of Europe it was still made not even by the government as a whole but by a small group within it — the chief minister and foreign minister , supplemented according to circumstances and personalities by those for war , colonies or other concerned departments — with the support or at least the acquiescence of the monarch . |
| 4 | Viewed by many as a vain upstart , de Gaulle 's stand was in fact inspired not by ambition but by a deeply-held belief in the grandeur of France . |
| 5 | But by a proud assertion of " independence " , an eighteenth-century artisan more likely would have been referring to his ability to maintain a wife and family at a proper standard without recourse to charity or poor relief . |
| 6 | Weirdly , but by a traceable line of descent through Unionism and Socialism , almost the same accents recur after thirty years : ‘ With the vast imperial resources which are the heritage of this country , the problems of poverty and want can easily be solved by a government empowered by the people to carry out their will . |
| 7 | But by a typical return , the anxiety and concern created rather than alleviated the ‘ problem ’ , for the incitement that Lyttleton so worried about was a product of middle-class obsessions themselves . |
| 8 | The lessee was protected , not by a real action , but by a personal action against his lessor , in which he could recover , not the land itself , but only damages to the breach of his landlord 's contract to allow him the use of the land . |
| 9 | Secondly that sanity and upright manliness are destroyed , not only by the reading of obscene stuff , but by a premature interest in sex matters , however it be excited . |
| 10 | Its part is written in the treble clef but by a curious quirk of transposition gives the actual notes sounded if the bass clef is thought of as displacing the treble . |
| 11 | They had raised themselves but still remained crouched , and were moving slowly by the hedge towards the tree , when once again Martin 's attention was brought round to the strip of woodland , not by a noise this time , but by a strange feeling of impending danger . |
| 12 | The outlook is measured not by actual volumes and values , but by a changing balance of CBI members reporting improvements over those reporting a worsening trend . |
| 13 | This second purpose is dealt with not only in the brief account of evolution outlined above but by a philosophical discussion of the production of ideas in history which it is equally essential to understand for apprehending the Marxist attitude to history and anthropology . |
| 14 | From Sligachan , only the northern end of a compact mass of peaks and pinnacles , linked by a high ridge of naked rock , can be seen , but by a circuitous byroad , the main climbing centre of Glen Brittle may be reached . |
| 15 | There is no way of knowing that the writer intended to write the word books , but by a lexical substitution error wrote boots instead . |
| 16 | It was indeed a bit like an LTP effect , though generated not by the artificial injection of current but by a behavioural experience . |
| 17 | The royal authority was being challenged not only by princes but by a growing menace of another kind , the increasing number of freelance soldiers , or routiers , who were gradually becoming a characteristic force in French society , reflecting the faltering grip of lawfully-established authority . |
| 18 | By the late 1820s Geoffroy was arguing that one animal form could be transformed into another by natural processes — not by the accumulation of slight modifications , but by a sudden switching of the growth process so that the development of the individual proceeded in a new direction to mature as a new modification of the basic pattern . |
| 19 | But by a bizarre co-incidence he was put in touch with the castle 's owner and the holiday is now going ahead : |
| 20 | One day he was found mysteriously dead in one of these enclosures , killed , not by the dogs , but by a human hand . |
| 21 | ‘ The Professor 's garden , however , was not only protected originally on the College side by the Fleet Ditch , but by a Thorn-planted Hedge , which extended onwards to the Bridge in Fig Lane [ Crowndale Road ] thus also enclosing the ‘ Green ’ at the back of the Elephant & Castle Inn . |
| 22 | The view that ‘ because of televising MPs will be more accountable to their voters ’ was widely held , but by a declining proportion — 76% before the experiment and 59% after three months . |
| 23 | A repeat ballot on Dec. 7 , following objections from Khasbulatov of voting irregularities , again failed , but by a larger margin , to reach the required number of votes . |
| 24 | Even so , the grip of liberal ideas upon the law of contract is weakening , because , as I have tried to show , the legal doctrine is ultimately shaped not by fidelity to liberal precepts but by a particular scheme of distributive justice and a vision of the legitimate market order . |
| 25 | Probably they are best illustrated , not by any general theoretical terms to cover a range of occurrences , but by a detailed example . |
| 26 | Both uses can in French be covered by the same word ancien , but they are distinguished in that the separative use requires prenominal position , while the standard use has the adjective after the noun , as in : ( 43 ) l'ancienne école de Charlie a fait banqueroute ( 44 ) cette école ancienne a hébergé les fils des tyrans depuis des siècles The same distinction is also marked overtly in Thai ; in this case it is realized not by a difference of syntactic position , but by a different choice of lexical item . |
| 27 | But by a remarkable stroke of fortune we were saved from falling into error . |
| 28 | But by a very virtue of the draft going round and being commented on people are aware then |
| 29 | In conclusion , Owens ( 1984 ) has commented that the 1980s have been characterized so far not by significant conceptual developments , but by a further widening of the empirical base . |
| 30 | ‘ The position , therefore , was that the wife , by process of law , namely marriage , had given consent to the husband to exercise the marital right during such time as the ordinary relations created by the marriage contract subsisted between them , but by a further process of law , namely , the justices ’ order , her consent to marital intercourse was revoked . |