Example sentences of "but [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But luckily for golf this was cancelled when the land was ear-marked for a camp site instead . |
| 2 | It also contained her unconscious valedictory : As a Catholic observer who has lived in the Third World for nearly 30 years , I have followed developments in the Church , at times with despair but mostly with optimism . |
| 3 | Fibre is found in fresh fruit and vegetables but mostly in wholegrain cereals and bread . |
| 4 | She was shaking all over , partly from cold , partly from shock at the suddenness and ferocity of the squall , but mostly in anticipation of what was to come . |
| 5 | The Villani , were tenants of land not held on demesne by the Lord of the Manor , who payed rent partly in money but mostly by service such as finding horses , oxen , ploughs and labour at specified periods , and sometimes providing for the lords table . |
| 6 | There were some bits the digger was in , but mostly by hand . |
| 7 | At one stage of the argument Mr. Browne suggested that the investigation here was not under the provisions of section 85 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 , the analogue of section 49 of the Act of 1964 , but rather under section 88 . |
| 8 | The intensional pattern corresponding to ( 44 ) is that of ( 47 ) , where once more the property instantiated by the adjective is underlined : ( 47 ) The mapping of the intensional pattern onto the surface syntax of English is again very direct and very natural , being reflected solely in the order of the instantiating elements , with again adjectival form as an overt marker that the second property is applied to the initial E. What ( 47 ) suggests , however , is that the similarity of construction is not between postverbal and predicate qualifier , which has the intensional structure given in ( 48 ) , but rather between postverbal and adverbal , the intensional structure for which is repeated here as ( 49 ) : ( 48 ) ( 49 ) From the point of view of the adjectival property , ( 47 ) and ( 49 ) are essentially the same ; the adjectival property syntactically qualifies another property word , while it is applied to the entity of the noun phrase in immediate construction with the property expression of which the adjective forms part . |
| 9 | Ferguson stressed that the American actions need not be interpreted as aggressive but rather as part of defence against a possible Soviet offensive . |
| 10 | While the Action Teams have a major role to play in implementing local initiatives , they are not working on their own , but rather as part of the overall Making Belfast Work strategy . |
| 11 | Science and technology thus ceases to be seen as autonomous but rather as part of an interesting system in which the internalised ideological assumptions help to determine the actual experimental designs and theories of the scientists and technologists themselves . |
| 12 | By and large , these directors do not deal on information generated by the financial conglomerate but rather on information acquired by the financial conglomerate . |
| 13 | It also remains the case that the Cabinet , as an institution , does not rest on parliamentary authority but rather on practice developed over the centuries . |
| 14 | ii ) stop — mass starvation & malnutrition money being spent on arms , but rather on aid , overdependence on non-renewable energy . |
| 15 | He was intensely interested in other people 's inner lives ; he read autobiographies , especially diaries , not as a voyeur but rather for reassurance . |
| 16 | The " excretory system " terminating in the excretory pore is almost certainly not concerned with excretion , but rather with osmoregulation and salt balance . |
| 17 | Held , granting the declarations , that it was the moment of adjudication of bankruptcy that caused the property of a bankrupt to vest in his trustee thereby causing an involuntary alienation of his property which resulted in the severance of any joint tenancy he might then be beneficially entitled to ; that the combined effect of sections 37(1) and 38 ( a ) of the Bankruptcy Act 1914 was not to vest title in the trustee retrospectively but rather to vest in the trustee when adjudication occurred title to property which was identified by reference to the property which belonged to the bankrupt at the commencement of the bankruptcy ; and that , accordingly , since the joint tenancy had not been severed before the wife 's death , on her death the husband , as survivor , became entitled to the whole beneficial interest in the properties , which on his adjudication as bankrupt vested in his trustee in bankruptcy ( post , pp. 206A , F–H , 207C ) . |
| 18 | Confining ourselves for the moment to pricing structures involving a constant per unit price , we found in section 2.2 that the socially optimal solution is not to raise all prices an equal proportion above average costs , but rather to practice Ramsey-optimal ( value-based ) pricing . |
| 19 | This is not a sign of pessimism , but rather of realism . |
| 20 | This is not a sign of pessimism , but rather of realism . |
| 21 | A failure to apologise , or to publish a retraction , will not normally be evidence of malice , but rather of consistency in holding sincere views . |
| 22 | The principle does not apply for anisotropic materials , where the " decay length " after which stresses are uniform is not of the order of one diameter d but rather of order where E , G are the longitudinal Young 's and shear moduli respectively and C is a constant ( Horgan 1972 ) . |
| 23 | For reasons outlined earlier in this chapter these do not usually consist of jobs , but rather of space ( which will be considered in the following chapter under the heading of land use and access ) and housing . |
| 24 | Time and again the complaint from articulate working class women 's groups about husbands was not of ill-treatment or economic neglect , but rather of lack of sympathy and understanding . |
| 25 | David 's voice was low , gentle , in no way as if he was prying , but rather from concern . |
| 26 | This is not so much for reasons of hygiene , it should be added , but rather from fear of the pollution that can come from the demons of the dead , who are usually thought to harbour hostile feelings towards the living . |
| 27 | These ends were to be achieved not by direct government action but rather by government support of unofficial or semi-official bodies such as societies and religious missions . |
| 28 | Analysis at this level of detail is not usually attempted by direct observation but rather by film or video analysis . |
| 29 | The wider impact of this decision was to define the scope of judicial review not in terms of the source of the power being exercised but rather by reference to the functions of judicial review and its appropriateness in particular cases . |
| 30 | It distinguishes the classes of society not by reference to the contrasted roles of employer and employee , but rather by reference to their usefulness . |