Example sentences of "but also [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The church not only provided solace and comfort in those long years , but also a vigorous identity which enabled its people to hold up their heads amid the persecution and oppression . |
| 2 | There was snobbery in this , of course , but also a simple ignorance of life outside the ivory tower in which I then dwelt . |
| 3 | There are of course some positive signs around but also a danger that I want to alert you to : a growth in what I will call ‘ designer caring ’ . |
| 4 | Nevertheless he is uniquely different because he is not only a hero but also a powerful magician in the tradition of many Slav and Asiatic epics . |
| 5 | Not just unmetrical poets like Pound ( for the most part ) and Bunting , but also a strictly metrical poet like the later Yvor Winters , came to think that the finest auditory effects in English-language verse were attained by those poets who attended to the quantitative elements in British or American speech as an incalculable dimension super-added to the recognized and calculable dimensions of syllable-count and stresscount . |
| 6 | There was , in particular , a renewed surge of spending on state schools , part of it to finance the rapid completion of the comprehensive secondary education system now being finished under the aegis of Shirley Williams , a right-wing member of the government but also a critic of private schooling . |
| 7 | It was a vigorous gesture , but also a risky one , since it emphasized the yawning gulf between the traditional pattern of autonomous free institutions within a plural culture and the new centralizing regime . |
| 8 | To find its most lasting realization , Charlie 's vision would have to wait for a bank clerk who did understand metempsychosis , and who had not only a commercial education gained in an underground room at Lloyds Bank , but also a knowledge of Greek . |
| 9 | Yet , as one of his prose pieces of the period reveals , the desert remained for him not only a place of death , but also a place of Christian triumph . |
| 10 | So it presented a mix of business operations of a rather specialised type , but also a classic area of interface between the public and private sector . |
| 11 | Thus previous foreign shareholders received not only some ( albeit frequently delayed ) compensation for the shares sold , but also a reliable annual income . |
| 12 | By the late 1970s the state sector had become not only a harbour of inefficiency , as in many ‘ developed ’ countries , but also a greenhouse of the hybrid values emerging in Africa many of which were inimical to efficient methods of low-cost production . |
| 13 | Your reward will be in heaven , but also a King-size Mars bar each from me . |
| 14 | But for the idea to be made manifest one needs a Coriolanus who is not only a truculent fighter but also a thrillingly horrific force of nature . |
| 15 | The result is a mixed and discontinuous exhibition , full of surprises , but also a record of frustration and disappointment . |
| 16 | This cool response almost certainly reflects legal caution , but also a bland faith in the regulatory system . |
| 17 | When it comes to handling the environmental crisis there is undoubted strength but also a flaw in the Western democratic system which has triumphed so dramatically , both ideologically and materially , at the end of the twentieth century : its political and economic well-being depends on growth and the prospect of ever-increasing wealth and improved standards of living . |
| 18 | The city not only has its own traditional dolphin stew , but also a dish known as iruka kuroshioboshi , dried dolphin meat cured to the consistency of leather . |
| 19 | Each new administration in Washington appoints not only the heads of its departments , or ministries , but also a lot of people further down the departmental ladder . |
| 20 | Viz is also read by a broad cross-section of full-grown , British men : lorry drivers , rubbish collectors , yes ; but also a goodly number of marketing execs , barristers , teachers , engineers and other respectables . |
| 21 | Through faith Christ 's presence — which does not depend on the individual 's faith in order to be the Lord 's real gift of himself to his Church — becomes no longer just a presence for the believer , but also a presence with him . |
| 22 | Today , of course , the test of love between men would be their willingness to share not just a toothbrush but also a razor . |
| 23 | For her son she is pure and nurturing , but also a source of anxiety , since he can not control her sexuality . |
| 24 | A food store for the plant , but also a tasty crop for the gardener |
| 25 | The importance of the contest was well appreciated by the Unionist Party which sent not only the Prime Minister but also a number of other cabinet ministers to Bannside to canvass for Dr Bolton Minford . |
| 26 | The apostles of Jesus were not merely witnesses to the Lord 's resurrection ( clearly an unrepeatable function in the historical sense ) , but also a source of decision-making or pastoral jurisdiction in the early communities . |
| 27 | When it turned up , it was both horrible and useful ; a mind-boggling twist to the Iran story ( Pelion piled on Ossa , indeed ) , but also a magnificent diversion from the Iranian debacle to the Nicaraguan controversy , from approved Policy to possibly freelance meanderings , and from Reagan to North . |
| 28 | She agreed to come and I took her first to the more brilliantly decorated one , not knowing that she was not only a very religious woman but also a girl who had been brought up in the strictest kind of convent — no heating , nothing for show . |
| 29 | ‘ It is the first time in 30 years that an international financial institution has been created , and we are not simply a bank , but also a political endeavour . |
| 30 | ‘ Naturally I am slightly sad , mainly for Andrew Adams but also a little for myself . ’ |