Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [pron] but [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 And another advantage of these mechanisms of defence is they apply to other inputs to the ego , not just those from the er from the unconscious or from the organism itself but from the outside , for example the denial is a defence mechanism that can be used against reality and is used by psychotics to great and often disastrous effect .
2 The flash that followed seemed to come not just from the magazine itself but from the whole width of the horizon .
3 In a short time he became disillusioned , not with the movement itself but with the P.N.M. leadership .
4 The FPA also says the death was caused not by the pill itself but by the injection of hormones given afterwards .
5 By using the relatively new and rather powerful transactions cost analytical approach , combined with conventional and radical approaches within organisation theory , and insights from the sociology of work , combined with the results from recent empirical work on the introduction of new technology , the intention is to set out some of the possibilities and choices about the use of new technology at work , indicating the different pay-offs to particular groups , and suggesting that the outcomes in specific cases will depend not just on the technology itself but on the strategy and power of the various interested parties .
6 In fact , the larger part of the value of the contract is not in the hull itself but in the components , a significant proportion of which will be provided by GEC in Rugby .
7 Not only does mental disability vary so widely that it ultimately defies definition , but the extent to which a given mental disability , in so far as it can be measured in clinical terms , handicaps a person will depend not only upon the disability itself but on the patient 's social circumstances as well .
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