Example sentences of "but in [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , Stephen being absent , Jack looks to music to calm certain professional anxieties but in exploring the great Chaconne of the Partita in C he is almost unnerved by the force of the work compared with the Scarlatti and Hummel pieces with which he and Stephen had so often relaxed . |
| 2 | The success of Morrison 's project derived not from the cementing of working-class allegiance to Labour through the unions , but in filling the political vacuum created by the downturn of political and industrial militancy in the immediate postwar period . |
| 3 | Danforth 's failure to construct a compromise , however , fuelled Democrat charges that the President was interested not in achieving a civil rights bill based upon consensus , but in creating a potent campaign issue — the concept of quotas — for the 1992 elections . |
| 4 | The solution lies , therefore , not in more punishment and law and order , but in discovering the underlying causes of child abuse in order to eliminate , or at least control , them . |
| 5 | Behind the policy of imperial expansion stood the sinister figure of the financier engaged not in honest trade but in channelling the surplus product of British industry into overseas investment . |
| 6 | I would very much hope that the BBC will be enabled to continue such a service in the future not only monitoring post war circumstances in the Gulf but in discussing the tortuous approach to European Community integration in 1992 . |
| 7 | Such a criterion is notoriously elusive , but in determining the precise legal status of a statement some reliance has been placed upon the point during the negotiations at which the statement was made . |
| 8 | Because of her training , she knew the risks involved , not only to the mother but in delivering a live , healthy baby . |
| 9 | Occasionally an innovative structure was put up without spires and gargoyles : Congregationalists in the Hertfordshire villages of Braughing and Puckeridge spent £1,275 not just in refitting the chapels and manse but in building an unsectarian village centre where the minister acted as warden . |
| 10 | Freedoms there are , but in encouraging a liberal approach to the national work plan which all teachers follow , freedom to ignore the work plan entirely has not been ceded by the state . |
| 11 | But in using the Comtean notion of progress from superstition to science as the mental counterpart of Darwin 's physical progression from ape to man the Tylorians simply evaded the issue . |
| 12 | But , says Bevan , the solution to many of the problems that lead to time-wasting — especially in regard to scrummaging — does n't lie in creating new laws , but in applying the existing ones with more vigour : ‘ There is a lot of talk about collapsed scrums and time wasting . |
| 13 | Instructions should be unambiguous , but in selling an ambiguous trigger may be used ( not in the sense of deceit ) because the salesman knows that different listeners will react in different ways . |
| 14 | For once the camera did lie , not about the beauty she was becoming but in camouflaging the vulnerable personality behind her effortless capacity to dazzle . |
| 15 | It should be noted that the airline 's offence lay , not in having an overbooking policy but in making a false statement in its letter to the traveller . |
| 16 | Berkeley 's seventeenth-century predecessors were as anxious as he was to suggest that the regularity of nature is a manifestation of God 's goodness ; but in making an independent material world the cause of ideas , they give God a less crucial role than Berkeley does . |
| 17 | As we have seen , the difficulty often lies not in obtaining tokens of a variable , but in obtaining the full range of realizations associated with it . |
| 18 | Though the hall 's notoriously unhelpful acoustic is reflected in the relatively dry sound , the Teldec engineers have done wonders in giving it not only a fair bloom but in conveying an extreme dynamic range . |