Example sentences of "but by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the moment it was immaterial ; but it was symptomatic of the difficulties which would face the claims of Canterbury when they were opposed , not only by the canons and archbishops of York , but by the papal Curia , and — during Anselm 's lifetime — also by the king . |
| 2 | But by the late-18th century even communal violence in a traditional cause was becoming difficult to stomach . |
| 3 | At first I could not devote so much time to the orchestra but by the early 1960s I was coming to a position where I was able to be with the orchestra a very great deal , working for eight or ten days at a time on concerts , records , and films . |
| 4 | The extent , timing and nature of this trend varied geographically , but by the early twentieth century virtually all districts were affected . |
| 5 | Most of the private members ' old age pension bills that had been submitted to Parliament prior to 1908 had contained income-limit clauses ; but by the early 1920s , stimulated partly by the 1919 Ryland Adkins Committee 's publicizing of the problem , increasing concern was being voiced over whether means-testing would discourage saving for old age . |
| 6 | But by the early 1960s opinions had changed markedly , partly as a result of the arguments put forward by Robert Triffin . |
| 7 | Population growth has slowed considerably , but by the early 1980s around 65 per cent of the Japanese population lived in towns of over 50,000 people , and half the population in what were categorized as ‘ densely inhabited districts ’ . |
| 8 | Some examples of these sophisticated Court items , dating from the 17th century , are in existence today , but by the early 19th century , Caucasian weaving had completed the transition to the " folk art " tradition that is universally regarded as the epitome of Caucasian village textile art . |
| 9 | This particularly applied in the hundred or so religious houses of royal foundation but by the early fourteenth century the king was extending the custom to the newly elect of other institutions ; not less frequently he requested a corrody ( or board and lodging ) for an ageing royal clerk or household servant . |
| 10 | Born Yevonde Cumbers in Streatham Common , London , in 1893 , she had a fairly conventional start to her career , serving an apprenticeship to the society photographer Lallie Charles , but by the early Twenties had build up a substantial portrait practice of her own and was attracting much attention as an eloquent advocate of the cause of women 's photography . |
| 11 | But by the early 1960s planners were being charged with an over-obsession with neatly packaged land parcels , and this came to a head with Jane Jacobs ( 1961 ) , an American journalist married to an architect , living in New York . |
| 12 | But by the early years of the twentieth century such proposals were receiving more serious and widespread attention than ever before . |
| 13 | This healthy tone has been bred not only by the daily influence of the railways , but by the annual practice of ‘ going to the seaside ’ or making a tour , a practice undreamt of before railways , and now endemic … |
| 14 | He was replaced , not by the senior figure of Denis Healey , who was chained to his oar at the Treasury in the aftermath of the IMF cuts , but by the youthful and little-known figure of David Owen , Crosland 's junior minister at the Foreign Office . |
| 15 | The major focus of popular agitation during the war years was provided not by Common Wealth but by the Communist Party . |
| 16 | Fortunately the Christian church is not dominated by theologians , but by the praying faithful , and the Divine Drama , although suffering numerous attacks and emendations , has lived on in popular spirituality and liturgy . |
| 17 | In the end , Kennedy won , but by the narrowest of margins : a popular majority of 118 550 of the 68 million votes cast . |
| 18 | Americans were bothered not only by the Baltic crackdown in January but by the Soviet reaction to American complaints about it . |
| 19 | The two circumstances have some conditions in common , evidently , but by the general definition of a causal circumstance we shall come to adopt ( 1.5 ) , there are two circumstances . |
| 20 | However , to my bewilderment , I found that the argument in favour of tobacco sponsorship was not put by some fruitcake from the tobacco industry 's front organisations , but by the general secretary of the Central Council of Physical Recreation , Mr. Peter Lawson . |
| 21 | ‘ Then it would be the slushy , sentimental records that were No. 1 at Christmas but by the Sixties and Seventies there was more hype by the record companies . |
| 22 | But by the sixties , after extensive research , the deadly disease was finally brought under control . |
| 23 | It is the essential feeling of " badness " and it may be inculcated not by circumstance but by the mere attitude of others towards us . |
| 24 | In many cities , most vacant land was not owned by local government but by the private sector and statutory authorities . |
| 25 | It er it , we , certainly the expansion of Tadcaster has been looked at quite thoroughly , though not only by the local authorities , but by the private sector , and the , and I think the the agreement has been that it it is not possible at the scale which is required to meet the needs of Greater York . |
| 26 | And for once this year , Littlewoods ' results will be most keenly awaited not just by its rivals but by the financial community at large . |
| 27 | Some Labour politicians continued to cling to their previous peace strategies but by the late 1930s the majority had come to accept that war was inevitable — a view confirmed by the events in Czechoslovakia , Austria and Poland which preceded the outbreak of the European war . |
| 28 | But by the late first century , a patriarchal family-oriented Christianity began to counteract and repress this anti-familial and egalitarian construction of celibacy . |
| 29 | It was not a sudden transformation , but by the late eighties there were precious few figures prominent in political life who were anything other than careerists . |
| 30 | Nether Stowey — usually known in Coleridge 's day , and since , simply as Stowey — had called itself a town for as long as anyone could remember , but by the late eighteenth century it was in reality no more than a large , straggling village whose inhabitants numbered fewer than six hundred . |