Example sentences of "but [be] [verb] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These appeals to distinctive class values are not hit-and-miss affairs , but are based on careful research into class preferences for particular goods and services . |
| 2 | Broilers are not kept in cages but are reared on deep-litter floors in large houses . |
| 3 | The Canonic Sonatas , on the other hand , were written for pairs of like instruments — flute or violin , but are performed on this disc by flute and oboe . |
| 4 | Some of these regulations may not promote efficiency but be justified on paternalistic grounds : workers are held not to be the best judges of their own interests and so are prevented by law from taking risks they would voluntarily undertake for money . |
| 5 | Figure 3.6 also shows the results of a final conditioning phase in which presentations of the stimuli continued as in the test session but were followed on each occasion by electric shock . |
| 6 | We offer a decent finance system that can sustain the functions that we give to local government , and a structure that is not piecemeal , but is based on identifiable communities — that is geared not to numbers alone , but to the ability to provide a decent level of service . |
| 7 | Kyffin Williams never intended to be a painter , he planned to go into the army but was rejected on medical grounds . |
| 8 | In that office he had to deal first with the Visigothic king Alaric II and then with the Ostrogoth Theodoric I. He was twice accused of treason , but was exonerated on both occasions . |
| 9 | This was abandoned as papist in the 1600s , says food historian , Ann Wilson , but was retained on Good Friday when the cross was at its greatest significance . |