Example sentences of "government but [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I recently met Mrs Kjaersgaard in London to discuss our common objective to forge a link between parliamentarians across Europe who wish to see Europe united not by a single government but with a free market . |
| 2 | It was useless for me to point out that the proposals were not those of the Government but of a group of advisers whose only power was to suggest . |
| 3 | In classical political thinking , " democracy " was the name not merely of a form of government but of a whole society , and it was habitually associated , by its enemies and critics as well as its friends , with the principle of social equality . |
| 4 | Officers were no longer members , and increasingly education came to be seen not as a separate or specialized concern of local government but as a service to be considered alongside housing , transport , or rubbish collection . |
| 5 | By early in the seventeenth century several of the states of Europe — France , England , the Dutch republic , Venice — already had permanent diplomatic representatives more or less securely established in Constantinope ( though the English and Dutch ones at least were for long concerned above all merely with the fostering of their countries ' trade : the former continued to be paid not by the British government but by a group of merchants , the Levant Company , until as late as the 1820s ) . |