Example sentences of "but [adv] its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such accumulations of local power were not antithetical to royal government , however , but rather its potential agencies . |
| 2 | The Steady State Theory floundered on for a few more years , being continually revised , but eventually its three proponents conceded defeat . |
| 3 | But perhaps its prime message is the crucial role that Rosat is likely to play in our understanding of these issues . |
| 4 | This may have been what WEU was originally intended to do , but nevertheless its belated reincarnation in the 1980s could not disguise the fact that its role in the process of European integration has been rather marginal . |
| 5 | BBMF had lost its first aircraft , but not its first pilot . |
| 6 | Costs remain essentially unchanged if these forks continue to elongate isometrically , but if elongation instead proceeds by further deepening of the fork through lengthening its outer but not its central feathers , these outer feathers eventually project beyond the point of maximum continuous width even when spread . |
| 7 | The flood of 18 January was duly anticipated by the excellent flood warning scheme only recently installed , but not its maximum flow or the fact that breaches would occur in certain flood banks . |
| 8 | Sir : Sunday 's television appeal for a donor liver highlights the acute shortage of replacement organs but not its true extent . |
| 9 | … the bilateralism inherent in the traditional structures and processes of international law is secured on the one hand , by a prohibition of intervention protecting not only a State 's internal but also its external affairs against third party interference and , on the other hand , by the pacta tertiis rule in the law of treaties , according to which an agreement can create neither obligations nor rights for a third State without its consent . |
| 10 | In the 1960s , W. D. Hamilton suggested that an individual should sacrifice itself to help not only its own children , but also its close relatives that share many genes . |
| 11 | It is the West 's firmest commitment so far to helping clean up environmental damage in the East but also its clearest statement yet that it is not willing or able to pay for the process . |
| 12 | It was precisely the power of Jacobitism as a negative ideal which explains the strength of the Jacobite challenge at the time of the Hanoverian succession , but also its ultimate failure , since there were few people who were really committed to the positive alternative which the Stuarts represented . |
| 13 | And this time the poor are losing — the notion of " scrounger " has been mobilised as a new scourge against them , not only successfully legitimating the dole as the lowest of low benefits , but also its actual reduction ( through the abolition of earnings-related benefit in 1981 ) and the enforced dependence on the means-tested supplementary benefit . |
| 14 | His photographs seem to do justice to the epic immensity of the subject , but also its symbolic implications . |
| 15 | The upper class has clear distinctive characteristics which give it such a sense of identity : not only its ownership of productive property ( the fundamental and defining feature ) but also its distinctive culture and status hierarchy . |
| 16 | Not only the capital cost of such an appliance , but also its running expenses are recoverable . |
| 17 | It was not simply the lump sum of human happiness which had to be increased , but also its even distribution throughout the population . |
| 18 | Not only was the membership of Coleridge 's proposed household in doubt for many weeks , but also its exact location . |
| 19 | There 's undoubtedly a great deal still to be uncovered about the behaviour of Europe 's rarer species of bats , but even its common ones have secrets . |
| 20 | A convenient way of producing ‘ instant smoke ’ for simple exploratory experiments is the reaction between hydrochloric acid and ammonia vapours , but again its extensive use has its dangers . |
| 21 | For years the potato has been acknowledged as one of our staple foods but recently its true potential has become more widely known . |