Example sentences of "but [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This style of painting was obviously very popular but thankfully the English developed landscape painting away from the picturesque reaching their apogee with Turner and Constable . |
| 2 | But fundamentally the instrumental approach fails to reconcile and explain contradictory tendencies . |
| 3 | Some of the houses stood out by dint of their brightly painted front doors but mostly the only sign of decoration was the washing on the lines and hanging from windows . |
| 4 | Occasionally , the film hits the right note , but mostly the disenchanted teenagers seem merely petulant , while the parents and shrinks are portrayed as either feckless drunks or mercenary medics . |
| 5 | t If so-called ‘ so-called poststructuralism ’ is the product of a single historical moment , then that moment is probably not May 1968 but rather the Algerian War of Independence — no doubt itself both a symptom and a product . |
| 6 | Implied in this idea was the notion that war was not , as some would have argued , the main cause of social disharmony , but rather the chief means of attaining the restoration of an order which had been broken by other causes . |
| 7 | Equally , psychology has been seeking acceptance as a ‘ real ’ science , and has not therefore wanted to emphasize the social side of human action , but rather the physiological , behavioural and physically measurable aspects of human behaviour . |
| 8 | Then people will do the environmentally ‘ correct' thing , not because it is thought to be the moral , but rather the practical , thing to do . ’ |
| 9 | The Egyptian newspaper Al-Jumhuriyah of Nov. 16 warned Bush against a military strike which would not " punish Kadhafi , but rather the Arab friends of the USA " . |
| 10 | What gives the Arabic version its sense of continuity is not , as in the case of English , the use of a series of identical themes ( I , I , I , … ) but rather the frequent thematization of processes as expressed in verbs , mainly ‘ saw ’ but also ‘ occupied ’ and ‘ pleases ’ . |
| 11 | It explains that accumulated losses do not , of themselves , necessarily require funding by the parent and that a debit balance does not represent an amount receivable from a minority , but rather the net liabilities attributable to the shares the minority shareholders hold in that subsidiary . |
| 12 | After all we knew that subsidy did n't exist to subsidise empty seats but rather the necessary and new ideas that were wanted at the time . |
| 13 | In contrast with most other studies on exfoliative cytology for bile duct strictures this study has not focused on a particular primary site of tumour but rather the overall use of cytology with biliary strictures . |
| 14 | you can not protect the general theme or idea for a piece of sculpture , for example , but rather the fixed expression of it in stone or marble or , as mentioned , specific drawings in charcoal or some other medium worked on paper . |
| 15 | The functional link for this class of proteins may not be their own protein sequence , but rather the nucleic acid structures recognized by their binding domains . |
| 16 | It must be remembered , however , that these xenoliths and veins do not represent frozen melt compositions , but rather the respective cumulate and infiltrate products of fractionally crystallized melts and/or associated fluids in an open system , so chemical resemblance may be fortuitous . |
| 17 | So , it is not the country of domicile of economic institutions or the classes that dominate them that is the primary consideration in explaining how the global system works , but rather the structural locations of institutions and classes in the global capitalist system . |
| 18 | What the mite is after , though , is not the blood of its host , but rather the regurgitated food usually produced so that the ant can feed each other and the ant larvae . |
| 19 | Elsewhere , I have elaborated at length on the reasons why it is implausible to suggest that the first hunters were the ruling males of what Freud termed the ‘ primal hordes ’ , but rather the unmated , younger males of the all-male groups , Freud 's ‘ sons ’ . |
| 20 | Its evocative power derived not only from its biblical roots , but also from the fact that it did not evoke clergy or hierarchy but rather the basic equality of all the baptized . |
| 21 | The man who has achieved that — and has record profits of $4.8bn in 1988 to prove it — is the GM chairman Roger Smith , hardly a charismatic revolutionary , but rather the quintessential GM company man down to his sober suits and clean-cut features . |
| 22 | Benjamin seized his torch , brought the flame as near as he could and examined not the wounds , but rather the dead priest 's shabby , bloodstained tunic . |
| 23 | The group communicated their ideas to the public by collaborating on A Pocket Dictionary of Foreign Words Which Have Entered the Vocabulary of the Russian Language , a work whose purpose was to discuss not foreign words per se but rather the social and political phenomena to which many of them related . |
| 24 | In 1863 it was all but gutted by a disastrous fire , but mercifully the ashlar-faced east façade remained entirely intact with its projected balustraded bay , its shell-headed niches , its eccentric demonstration of Doric , Ionic and Corinthian columns in three tiers — all in Purbeck stone . |
| 25 | The Pandavas are banished to the forest for 12 years , but eventually the great war comes … |
| 26 | But eventually the French are reduced to a small band , and Roland realizes that he did wrong to send his faithful followers to death by his proud refusal to blow the oliphant . |
| 27 | A sudden fall in aggregate demand resulting from , for example , fiscal contraction , will , in the short run , produce a fall in output , but eventually the induced fall in the absolute |
| 28 | But eventually the servile condition of the peasants ( and the privileged status of nobles ) became hereditary , passed down from one generation to the next . |
| 29 | That pleased the smart set , but secretly the old money decided it was a bit tacky . |
| 30 | I think what what Mr Wincup was saying at the end of the day , is that the Inspector 's report and the conclusions on the greenbelt local plan will go back to the parent authority , the originating authority , which is North Yorkshire , equally my rec report , out recommendations on this alteration go back to North Yorkshire , they have to take regard to whatever we recommend , ultimately they will take a decision on that , erm depending on the decision other things may flow from it , and I ca n't really speculate on what those are at the moment , but effectively the final decision as to what they accept or reject will rest with North Yorkshire . |