Example sentences of "but [adv] [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such diverse construction methods are not confined to particular types of building but rather reflect questions of cost and regional traditions which appear to have been relatively pronounced in Roman Britain . |
| 2 | It does not set individual drug prices , but rather limits companies ' overall profits to 25 per cent . |
| 3 | Developing a ‘ collaborative classroom ’ did not mean suddenly insisting that everyone works together all the time ( as some teachers fear may happen if enthusiasm for ‘ group work ’ gets out of hand ) , but rather creating conditions which would allow the collective resources of the group to be used to support and enhance across the whole range of classroom activity . |
| 4 | ‘ But the immediate impact of the yen 's rise will not be to spur overseas investment , but rather to squeeze exporters ’ profits and so dampen their ability to invest abroad , ’ he added . |
| 5 | Charles was acting quite legally in initiating the quo warranto proceedings against borough charters , and his primary aim appears not so much to achieve royal control over the borough electorate — boroughs which did not return MPs were also subject to attack — but rather to drive Nonconformists and their sympathisers out of the local magistracy and to secure the empanelment of juries who would be prepared to act against the Dissenters . |
| 6 | it has , however , been characterized throughout by limited resources and was never expected to produce detailed results , but rather to identify areas which should be investigated further . |
| 7 | Like the Trade Descriptions Act , it is designed not to give individual consumers a remedy when things have gone wrong , but rather to prevent things from going wrong . |
| 8 | Michon ( 1988 ) in particular suggests that driver training should avoid providing information at a declarative level but rather give rules which are easily proceduralized to minimize the need for the driver to ‘ think ’ . |
| 9 | Our purpose is not to define a basic library for you , but rather to suggest kinds of books which you might look for ; and our choice of texts is based primarily on their convenience as illustrations . |
| 10 | Middleclass youths are often ‘ mouths ’ but rarely become gougers because the latter require an element of ‘ pure badness ’ , which from the view of the police tends to exclude the middle classes , for ‘ pure badness ’ derives from being ( or appearing to be ) educationally subnormal , coming from ‘ bad homes ’ , or having a history of crime . |
| 11 | So for those who argue that the rave scene has produced little else but badly dressed pre-pubescents , look no further than Nicolette . |
| 12 | This gives a very natural look but effectively conceals imperfections too . |
| 13 | It is not so much the whips as the local constituency activists who indirectly but effectively apply sanctions ( such as not readopting him or her ) to keep the overwhelming majority of MPs toeing the party line , and government control very tight . |
| 14 | Not quite vagrants , but little lost boys . |
| 15 | It had akroteria ( at the centres elaborate florals supported by small korai , sphinxes at the outer angles ) ; metopes not carved but perhaps painted panels ; and marble pediments , each with a battle , Athena in the centre . |
| 16 | They needed a win at all costs , but so did opponents , Derby . |
| 17 | Since that time , not only have views of education and educational research changed , but so have views of science . |
| 18 | Since that time , not only have views of education and educational research changed , but so have views of science . |
| 19 | We have walked along a similar road , but so have comrades elsewhere in Europe . |
| 20 | Ghosts may walk but so do murderers . |
| 21 | To the west and east lie the fertile but sparsely populated kingdoms of Tiranoc and Yvresse . |
| 22 | This strategy is particularly interesting in that it implies an awareness of a lack in the Oxfordshire scheme , which provides neither guidance on strategies for looking at the curriculum nor criteria for judging its appropriateness and adequacy , but merely requires teachers to do it . |
| 23 | But merely to recite examples of improvised education was to reveal their inadequacy . |
| 24 | This animal does not strip bark like other squirrels , but merely removes flakes of the large smooth-barked trees with low levels of hydrolysable tannins . |
| 25 | The film ended with Wayne assuming responsibility for an orphaned Vietnamese boy to the strains of The Ballad of the Green Berets and the sun apparently setting in the east , a scene which outraged his critics but apparently brought tears to the eyes of many less demanding viewers . |
| 26 | Herds of scrawny little creatures , local life forms — smooth-skinned , pot-bellied , longer hind legs than some of the more level stretches rows of colourless plants drooped in the sun , scraggy and semi-lifeless but obviously tilled crops . |
| 27 | But naturally occurring holes are in relatively short supply . |
| 28 | But only export orders have kept the production lines going since then . |
| 29 | The defendants ' operations were not destructive of telegraphic communication generally , but only affected instruments unnecessarily so constructed as to be affected by minute currents of the escaping electricity . |
| 30 | From the available evidence , it seems fair to conclude that the typical legal sanction against corporate crime does not act as a general deterrent — others are not put off merely because some corporations and their executives have been fined , particularly when the fines are comparatively small and tax-deductable — and the evidence , such as it is , suggests that a specific deterrent function may operate , but only to deter corporations from recommitting the same offence . |