Example sentences of "but [adv] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tower Hamlets declined to make the repayment and Chetnik applied for judicial review of the adverse decision , unsuccessfully at first instance but successfully in the Court of Appeal and in your Lordships ' House . |
| 2 | Data was collected in 18 states , but mostly in the east of the country . |
| 3 | From that site too come the Callanish eagles whose strength is not in flight , or size , or speed or skill but rather in a spirit whose power has been forget through time . ’ |
| 4 | Worried staff at the centre called in the police , who instructed Mrs Duncan to make her speech not in front of the centre but rather in an unobtrusive site on another street 175 yards away . |
| 5 | We should be looking not at such practice in the past but rather in the future — more of that later . |
| 6 | It is however not in curriculum thinking that Fullan 's major contribution is to be found , but rather in the issues he raises about the nature of change as a process in educational terms , and the implications these have for managers in the service . |
| 7 | Its importance within the city lay not in the speed of its rise — which was hardly spectacular — nor in its violence — for it could only do what Berlin sanctioned , but rather in the social and national spirit it fostered within the community . |
| 8 | Thus vowed Yeremi 's passion-hemisphere — not in so many words , but rather in the form of emotive emblems that lodged within his heart and guts , to flourish there like tumours . |
| 9 | He found the identity for his clown not in the figure of a worker but rather in the form of a man whose sensitivity , grace , almost feminine beauty , charm , clothes , and swagger all hint at a better background and perhaps at social and sexual aspirations . |
| 10 | As this agenda spreads to other sections of the press , to radio and to television , it produces a ‘ self-enforcing conformity ’ whose importance ‘ lies not in the nuances of attitude taken on different items on the political agenda , but rather in the common agreement on that agenda itself … ’ . |
| 11 | Much of the power in both the House and the Senate resides not on the floor of the relevant house ( though the ultimate veto is there ) but rather in the various standing committees of each . |
| 12 | One prima facie plausible answer is provided by another theory , according to which the specific feature that marks off proper names from descriptions should be sought not in any " logical simplicity " but rather in the " rigidity of their designation " . |
| 13 | The initial interest was not in the bibliographic data , but rather in the circulation data which was being made available to the public , thus enhancing the catalogue 's function as a finding tool . |
| 14 | As he had stressed in The Rock this was not in the sense of information , but rather in the sense of consciousness of values ; and he deplored a situation where the term society implied simply a group of ‘ well connected ’ and affluent people , which had almost no relation to that other group or society which maintained moral and intellectual standards , which for him was the church . |
| 15 | True , gay sexuality had featured with the Beats , with Kerouac 's ambivalent relationship with Ginsberg , his semi-love affair with Neal Cassidy ; and the subject had been touched on by the early underground , but rather in the way that Ezra Pound 's fascism had been treated , as an interesting eccentricity . |
| 16 | However , for the historian the problem lies not in the absence of data , but rather in the bulk of the material available to him . |
| 17 | Not on the outside of our lives , but right in the very centre of our being , the very heart , the core of our personality , this new life , this new birth to the only way that we can know God and receive his forgiveness . |
| 18 | In general , it reaches a maximum thickness of 40–50 m near the basin margin but locally in the southern North Sea it attains a thickness of up to 90 m , and basinwards it decreases in thickness to less than 5 m ( Fig. 4c ) . |
| 19 | But somewhere in the middle of it all is the right postcard , the right poster , the right greetings card and the right calendar for your bookshop . |
| 20 | Even if the question does n't specifically warn you about it , by saying " to what extent … " , you should generally find that the answer is not at one end or the other , but somewhere in the middle . |
| 21 | We were in a supermarket , I do n't know where it was but somewhere in the states and I told you I think they 're boast were sixty something varieties of peanut butter . |
| 22 | Mason took his unbeaten record to 33 fights by a margin of 98 ½-97 , or three rounds , but rarely in a British ring have two heavyweights been so well matched . |
| 23 | There were in this dingy , badly heated studio , moments of rare artistic quality of a kind that occurs but rarely in a century ’ . |
| 24 | The firm was but rarely in the area of financial services until Michael Springman joined in 1986 to head a City practice . |
| 25 | The notion of a country united under Alfred 's West Saxon successors gained ground but slowly in the tenth century . |
| 26 | Our research was conducted before the Children Act , but little in the legislation makes us believe our findings to be significantly out of date . |
| 27 | The corresponding TV measure , very widely used in the USA but little in the UK , is a telephone survey of the ‘ 24-hour recall ’ type . |
| 28 | A repertoire of ornament of a vernacular baroque character is applied with varying degrees of restraint , while the interiors , usually arranged with the hall and saloon across the centre and the staircase to one side , are enriched with fine joinery and plaster-work but little in the way of spatial incident . |
| 29 | Other people , however , have a long tradition of breakfasting wholeheartedly , but perhaps in a way that is not wholesome for the heart . |
| 30 | But perhaps in a way that will be something of a surprise . |