Example sentences of "but [adj] of the [noun] " 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 | The cold winter of early 1956 produced an exceptional influx , but neither of the winters of 1946/47 nor 1962/63 did so , in direct contrast to Whooper Swans . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In one rural Argentine study , the contribution of the sons to the family productive unit was in the form of agricultural tasks , but that of the daughters took the form of monetary contributions , earned through migration ( Miró and Rodríguez 1982 ) . |
| 5 | My contention is that what is really strange is not the behaviour of the child but that of the adult . |
| 6 | The test is not based on a property lawyers view of the world but that of the businessman . |
| 7 | Eliot gives us not plovers ' sympathetic magic but that of the Turdus aonalaschkae pallasii whose ‘ waterdripping song ’ is justly celebrated' . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This was not the shooting of an ordinary man , but that of the president of the United States . |
| 11 | But two-thirds of the profits rebound , or £9.3 million , came from Brossette , acquired last year , and the balance from the US , where trading profits rose 33 per cent to £18 million , and from manufacturing , which contributed 17 per cent more at £10.7 million . |
| 12 | But little of the earnings trickle downwards : most of the foreign currency earned goes on imports of food and goods demanded by the predominantly white and affluent visitors . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The decline has occurred since the 1950s , but little of the mistletoe on sale came from British sources . |
| 15 | But this was a warrior king who had all the trappings but little of the reality of war . |
| 16 | Undoubtedly much of Lewkenor 's commercial activities verged on the illegal , but few of the Sussex coastal gentry were probably uninvolved in the piracy and smuggling which flourished in the troubled international scene and which , in the guise of ‘ sea-dogs ’ , has long been acknowledged as one of the great Elizabethan attributes . |
| 17 | All hospitals held induction courses but few of the consultants were personally involved . |
| 18 | At the other end of the building some very different experiments had been going on involving nuclear physicists who knew of the existence but few of the details of ZETA . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Shares of 14 of the airlines are traded on stock exchanges , but 12 of the participants are 50% or more owned by government . |
| 21 | In many wills it would not be needed ; but some of the texts examined show it playing a more vital role . |
| 22 | ‘ But some of the members of the committee were upset , were n't they ? ’ |
| 23 | But some of the sting is gone . |
| 24 | But some of the problems , particularly those of provision of hospital services in inner-city areas , do arise from the progressive reallocation of funds since the introduction of RAWP . |
| 25 | But some of the others are less familiar . |
| 26 | That may be his paramount qualification for ‘ going to the Castle ’ , but some of the others seem hardly less important . |
| 27 | Nearly half of these poorer people came from within a 20-mile radius , but some of the others came long distances . |
| 28 | But some of the boys appreciated his solid scholarship and the great pains he took to help them , and the nickname ‘ Granny Gow ’ was bestowed upon him not without affection . |
| 29 | yeah , but some of the letters have come , in fact they sent me that catalogue you know |
| 30 | But some of the country 's economic difficulties have direct and indirect effects on provision . |