Example sentences of "but [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But thankfully the two exters never got to me . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But fundamentally the instrumental approach fails to reconcile and explain contradictory tendencies . |
| 4 | Cottage dwellers were either authentic or immigrant — but mostly the latter . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Federalism is not meant to serve unlimited freedom , but rather the highest possible measure of freedom within a systematic order . |
| 9 | According to Ācārya Kripalani the Rāma invoked by Gandhi with his dying breath was not the historical Rāma or the mythological Rāma , but rather the highest Self . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Then people will do the environmentally ‘ correct' thing , not because it is thought to be the moral , but rather the practical , thing to do . ’ |
| 13 | 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 " . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | However , when Raymond Plant of Southampton University wrote a Fabian Tract on the subject , he chose to emphasise not the third element in the French Revolutionary triad but rather the third element in T.H. Marshall 's triad of civil , political and social citizenship . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ’ . |
| 25 | It was to these crucial years , therefore , that I turned attention in an endeavour to understand not the triumphal march of the party as such , but rather the broader cultural structures that laid the foundations for its success . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The musketry was not the huge eruptions of platoon fire , but rather the smaller sporadic snapping of skirmishers which betrayed that the French Voltigeurs were closing on the Dutch light troops , but both sets of skirmishers were well hidden from the Prince and his staff by the tall crops . |