Example sentences of "but [adj] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kristeva 's own voice is recorded in this volume only in the first of the essays , ‘ The Adolescent Novel ’ , but each of the subsequent pieces variously addresses aspects of her work . |
| 2 | The legislation at present does not require delegation to special schools , nursery schools or primary schools with less than 200 pupils , but each of the primary schools has to have a budget share which is managed individually . |
| 3 | But each of the five possible routes proposed has drawbacks : apart from the cost ( about £4 million ) , they would bring new problems for other villages , cut through farm land or devastate the watermeadows and wildlife habitats in the Letheringsett and Glaven Valley Conservation Areas . |
| 4 | The commissions were not of much political importance themselves , but each of the thirty-two county commissions was headed by a national figure whose selection gives some idea of the balance of power . |
| 5 | This does not necessarily mean that a diversity of penal aims is ruled out , but each of the different aims must be justified by the same general philosophy if our position is to be coherent . |
| 6 | But each of the leading Jewish sects of Palestine developed a style of life which in its way kept Hellenization on the surface . |
| 7 | The commissions were not of much political importance themselves , but each of the thirty-two county commissions was headed by a national figure whose selection gives some idea of the balance of power . |
| 8 | The Zulu leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi is black but tolerant of the white minority . |
| 9 | To the layman they were neither beautiful nor exciting , but redolent of the search for the Loch Ness monster , sunken ships and hidden treasure . |
| 10 | Not only will Germany continue to provide some support for their exports , but neither of the two economies spent and borrowed with the abandon of the English-speaking world in the 1980s . |
| 11 | The cold winter of early 1956 produced an exceptional influx , but neither of the winters of 1946/47 nor 1962/63 did so , in direct contrast to Whooper Swans . |
| 12 | Of the 10 patients who had taken oral contraceptives , only one developed gall stone recurrence but neither of the two patients taking hormone replacement treatment developed recurrent stones . |
| 13 | He was found not guilty of the serious charge of seditious libel but guilty of the lesser misdemeanour of creating a public mischief . |
| 14 | This is not the book of a scholar , as you will soon realize , but that of a genuine enthusiast . |
| 15 | ‘ So jung , ’ he said in astonishment , and I noticed that he had not got the face of a giant at all but that of a very old and reliable nanny . |
| 16 | His home was not that of a day labourer or landless tenant but that of a middle-class artisan . |
| 17 | The fire-light danced merrily on this , and really ( setting all taste but that of a child 's aside ) it gave a richness of colouring to that side of the room . |
| 18 | To allow capable men and women who are eager to work to dissipate their active years in unemployment means that the actual workers in the country are earning not only their own living , but that of a growing number of others who are idle , while also having to accept steadily falling conditions of health care , education , and communications infrastructure . |
| 19 | In both the instances we have looked at , the speaker uses the change of code to animate a persona which is not his/her own , but that of a character in a narrative . |
| 20 | Eliot gives us not plovers ' sympathetic magic but that of the Turdus aonalaschkae pallasii whose ‘ waterdripping song ’ is justly celebrated' . |
| 21 | This was not the shooting of an ordinary man , but that of the president of the United States . |
| 22 | In one rural Argentine study , the contribution of the sons to the family productive unit was in the form of agricultural tasks , but that of the daughters took the form of monetary contributions , earned through migration ( Miró and Rodríguez 1982 ) . |
| 23 | My contention is that what is really strange is not the behaviour of the child but that of the adult . |
| 24 | Third , that certain factors in avant-garde culture , and especially the conscious breaks from ‘ traditional ’ styles , have to be analysed not only in formal terms but within the sociology of metropolitan encounters and associations between immigrants who share no common language but that of the metropolis and whose other ( including visual ) received sign-systems have become distanced or irrelevant . |
| 25 | As their point of departure , linguists need to adopt a frame of reference which is not that of the linguist but that of the educationalist . |
| 26 | She was stifling , she was being crushed , overwhelmed , and the hard man 's body against her was not Neil 's but that of the man who had … who … had … and panic ensued , all-enveloping panic , uncontrollable . |
| 27 | I must advise the hon. Gentleman , however , that the phrase in Big Farm Weekly , ’ Goodbye to the BSE scourge ’ was not mine , but that of the chief veterinary officer . |
| 28 | The test is not based on a property lawyers view of the world but that of the businessman . |
| 29 | In the context of unfair dismissal it is not your personal situation that is to be considered , but that of an employee in your category . |
| 30 | For instance , the London Borough of Southwark remained under Labour control after the May 1982 local elections , but two-thirds of the Labour councillors were new , following ‘ de-selections ’ and defections to the newly formed Social Democratic Party . |