Example sentences of "but [adv] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is often said that unfettered insider dealing does not hurt shareholders ; that insiders ' profits are not outsiders ' losses , but rather evidence of a more efficient allocation of resources ; Just because an investor does not make as much money on the sale of his shares as he would otherwise have done , does not make him a victim in the true sense , as nothing has been stolen from him . |
| 2 | The goal of tolerance and mutual respect is not one , all-embracing religion , but rather unity in diversity . |
| 3 | This may not be out of unwillingness but rather ignorance on the part of parents : they do not know how to go about encouraging such skills . |
| 4 | I would want to argue that if our goal is a religious situation in which women and men are accounted equals , we shall need to promote not continuity but rather discontinuity with the past . |
| 5 | Repeated government " failure " results not only in a withdrawal of support from specific administrations by the electorate but eventually disillusionment with the institutions and processes of political democracy itself . |
| 6 | Their one desire was to get out of this place ; but perhaps flight in the present circumstances might seem ungracious . |
| 7 | Not only do we need a strategic deterrent , but there is a strong argument that a sub-strategic deterrent continues to be relevant at a time when there is a real risk of several new nations appearing which have some form of nuclear capability and when we risk the proliferation of not merely equipment but perhaps technology from some of the scientific bases in the former Soviet Union . |
| 8 | Secondly , in the Fearon case it was not the right to exercise an economic activity which was conditional on the shareholders ' satisfying the residence requirement , but merely immunity from compulsory acquisition measures adopted under legislation governing the ownership of rural land designed to ensure as far as possible that the land belonged to those who worked it . |
| 9 | The extension to Inch Abbey has been approved completely but only part of the Ballyduggan extension has received approval . |
| 10 | This final step is not an end-point , but only part of the continuous cycle of action and reflection . |
| 11 | It is important to understand that it is never treatment in the abstract which can be described as ‘ extraordinary ’ , but only treatment in the context of the particular patient being cared for . |
| 12 | The glare dimmed and outlines of roofs and trees and angles at street junctions , lampposts , signs , doorways , scaffolding and cranes — too molten to look up at at two in the afternoon — calmed into focus , became distinct against the astounding pure clarity of the sky , and later became so sharp and clear that looking at them was like a note you could not hear but only sense within the ear by some change in vibration . |
| 13 | In the contrasting situation , when there is no convention but only agreement in conviction , everyone follows the same rule but principally because he thinks it independently the best rule to follow . |
| 14 | There are n't enough biscuits ; you can have tea and coffee in the morning but only tea in the afternoon ; no-one knows where the switches are or how the equipment works ; and so on . |
| 15 | But meanwhile clearance for the dam continues and the likely new environment minister , Barry Jones , says he may attempt to get a court injunction to halt work . |
| 16 | Reports of selective depletion of a common set of V elements in people with HIV infection , and that HIV selectivity stimulates and replicates in CD4 cells with particular V elements in vitro , are compatible with ( but not proof of ) HIV encoding a superantigen . |
| 17 | Dogs were deprived of food but not water for 18 hours before surgery and experiments . |
| 18 | Size clearly has something to do with its effect , he wrote , but not size as reflection of ego . |
| 19 | Literacy , too , has the potential to generate logic and scepticism — but not literacy in general , only that form of it which developed in classical Greece . |
| 20 | Sean said : ‘ It 's all right to sell off confiscated goods such as videos and TVs but not equipment for breaking into cars and houses . |
| 21 | The first should result in a lower incidence of infections , possibly in combination with decreased severity due to a lower average ‘ dose ’ of pathogens crossing the mucosal barrier , whereas the second will tend towards a decreased severity , but not incidence of infection . |
| 22 | After the Civil War , a Fourteenth Amendment was added binding state legislatures and courts in similar terms , so that protection against prior censorship was guaranteed , but not protection against proceedings for obscenity . |
| 23 | The family can find forgiveness but not comprehension of a crime which it will take weeks to clear up . |
| 24 | The Victorians understood ‘ The environment ’ to mean the background to human activity , in particular , industrial activity — a subject of concern to public health inspectors and philanthropists , but not society in general . |
| 25 | Volumes were selected from the period 1982–92 and only original articles were eligible for analysis ( including letters but not correspondence in Nature ) . |
| 26 | Thus monarch in 14 has queen but not king as a synonym , whereas in 15 it has king but not queen : |
| 27 | He said that Colonel Guillermo Wong , arrested by General Noriega after the rebellion failed , was part of the US plot , but not part of Tuesday 's abortive coup . |
| 28 | By accepting the jurisdiction of an external authority in domestic matters , the UK in effect converted her responsibility for the external relations of the Isle of Man into a total responsibility for its internal affairs , and abrogated by a sidewind the semi-independence of the Islands , which are under the Crown but not part of the United Kingdom . |
| 29 | A covered area under the fly but not part of the inner — pretty essential in wet weather for storing gear and for use as a cooking area . |
| 30 | Greece 's natural interest in Europe , like Britain 's , is to be part of a wealth-creating economic confederation , but not part of a political union in which it could get out-voted on something it considered vital . |