Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] but on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | mortgage payers who ‘ own ’ their houses but on a mortgage ; |
| 2 | Such qualities have their disadvantages but on the whole I 'm thankful . |
| 3 | It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being but on the contrary ; their social being that determines their consciousness . |
| 4 | The peasants ' " redemption dues " were calculated not on the basis of the land which came into their possession but on the basis of the rents and services that they owed under serfdom . |
| 5 | Now I believe that you test the liberal democracy , not by the ease with which majorities get their way but on the extent to which you accommodate the views of committed minorities and we 've lived so long with majority rule , masquerading as democracy , that we 've forgotten that that is more akin to dictatorship than anything else . |
| 6 | He must be able to stamp his authority not only on his team but on the peloton as a whole , directing the whole tenor of the race before it is time for him to go to the front and win . |
| 7 | I think that it would place great strain not only on the Comptroller and Auditor General and his staff but on the budget of the Public Accounts Commission itself if it had to authorise such expenditure . |
| 8 | EMBUREY is back in the England fold , on top of his game but on the bottom shelf at the bank . |
| 9 | The danger of criticizing the appointment of particular judges was shown when in June 1980 a Belfast jury awarded £50,000 damages to a Northern Ireland county court judge for a libel contained in an article in the Economist suggesting that his appointment had been based , as The Times put it in a leading article , not so much on his ability but on the fact that he was a Roman Catholic . |
| 10 | We can not , of course , look into his soul but on the basis of his ascertainable behaviour he grew up to be a conventionally pious man . |
| 11 | Europe has not widened our horizon but on the contrary removed a huge dimension from our affairs , so that we are in effect left fighting a local election . |