Example sentences of "but [noun sg] of [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The number of tree species with high proportions of ‘ barked ’ trees is low , but bark of a few species is pulled off in strips up to 10m long as seen in Bombax brevicuspe ( Bombacaceae ) and Lannea welwitschii ( Anacardiaceae ) . |
2 | Since this causal chain is but part of a boundless nexus of causal chains that originate before and outside the perceived object and end beyond the perceiving body , it is not very clear why the former should count as an ‘ origin ’ . |
3 | There were no ‘ international affairs ’ , only relations between ruling dynasties ( who were not members or representatives of different nations , but part of a single class ) . |
4 | The effectiveness of economic advice is but part of a larger problem : the appropriateness of the government machine to the tasks which have been placed upon it . |
5 | The opening paragraphs of this chapter discuss alternative concepts of accountability in order to recognize that , while financial accountability is important , it is but part of a larger canvas . |
6 | Jon Stratton has suggested that he is needed for ideological reasons too ( 1983 ) : in Stratton 's view , the ‘ romantic ’ image of the creative artist is no false veneer nor confined to ‘ mass culture ’ , but part of a larger tradition , within which the dialectic of ‘ romanticism ’ and commodification is basic to capitalist culture as such ; thus it implicates the ‘ individualism ’ of , say , Beethoven as well as that of pop stars and composers . |
7 | Suppose it were not the whole thing but part of a pattern ? |
8 | A spokesman for the Department of Employment said : ‘ This was not a one-off study , but part of a whole range of studies undertaken for the Department by the SCPR . |
9 | Apart from extending agriculture into lands which were not free , as they seemed , but part of an ancient patrimony , they hunted fur-bearing animals as well as birds and fish and in other ways competed with the existing population for scarce resources . |
10 | As Alan Crawford noted in the SAVE/CAMRA report Time Gentlemen Please of 1983 , old pubs ‘ are not isolated or monumental , but part of the fabric of the city , and of people 's ordinary lives , street-corner history . |
11 | This is not just an academic concern but part of the work of understanding how and when capitalism will change and be overcome . |
12 | A more concerted action by governments to address this quiet massacre might have been expected , but part of the problem is the lack of a single international forum to deal with the management of small cetaceans . |
13 | But part of the NCS programme is devoted to new materials , and Wood acknowledged that it would have to keep an eye open for new discoveries like the superconducting buckminsterfullerenes : ‘ synthetic chemists are almost certainly going to find new materials ’ . |
14 | It may well be he would argue that all these things are but part of the private man 's attempt to gain public approval . |
15 | The large numbers who are unable to find regular work are not seen as a phenomenon characteristic of underdevelopment , but part of the capitalist division of labour and , therefore , a similar feature to the industrialisation process of European countries , differing in terms of quantity rather than quality . |
16 | They also make mistakes , but part of the game is that they never apologise . |
17 | But if during his lifetime the testator gave the legatee not the whole but part of the price of the office , a claim for the remainder remains unless the heir has shown that the testator departed from this too . |
18 | THE CONSERVATION of birds is but part of the whole subject of wildlife conservation . |
19 | There used to be two small hamlets just outside but part of the village , known as Mill Cottages and Pry Cottages . |
20 | The Kandyan Kingdom fell quietly to the British as a result of its internal weaknesses and divisions , but part of the aristocracy led a major rebellion in 1817 — 18 . |
21 | ‘ The confusion arises from that ‘ tri ’ , which is n't Latin though but part of the derivation from the Greek verb ‘ to rub ’ . |
22 | soc : Perhaps , but part of the reason lies in the culture of health services research . |
23 | However , these should not be considered as ‘ failures ’ , but part of the learning process during which the user , first , comes to terms with his or her dependency and , second , sets about finding out which is the appropriate path to take . |
24 | Thus its replacement of labour by machines is not only a ‘ technical ’ necessity but part of the drive towards making profits . |
25 | In the latter case addressing will probably only point to a bucket number , and in searching the bucket for a particular record using the direct technique it will no longer be an error to detect a dummy record , but part of the search . |
26 | Nevertheless there has been a slow but perceptible change in the basis of such control , which is no longer in the hands of particular landowning families and individuals as such , but part of the duties of the office to which they have been elected . |
27 | The list is by no means confined to local publishing as the photograph on the right of Norma Major with author Susan Normington indicates , but part of the planned expansion in the UK will , as it were , be inwards , covering localities in greater detail than ever before . |
28 | Circumstances can arise which are difficult to anticipate ; for example , one site with which the author was involved was situated over a mile from the sea , but part of the site was on ground made up from Elizabethan times and included a harbour wall . |
29 | Pigs may have spent some time with the swineherd in the distant woodland , but part of the wood would have been cropped for fuel , poles , wood for repairs to buildings , fences , implements and so on , while a few trees may have been cut down for constructional work on the bridge over the Yeo or to build a new house . |
30 | My falling in love with Julian was nothing to do with me , nothing to do with Julian , but part of the curse put on Bernard that his wife would become the love object of a man more attractive , more wealthy , more intelligent and of a higher status than he , so he did n't stand an earthly . |