Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] but [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To suggest that the signs are up in order to show a ‘ vigorous contempt for the people whose productive labour pays for all their intellectual endeavour ’ is not only wrong but reinforces the old stereotype of ‘ them and us ’ which at least some colleges are trying to break down . |
| 2 | However , on their first night she felt like a patient strapped to an operating table without the benefit of an anaesthetic ; and the surgeon was not only blind but expected the patient to give him directions . |
| 3 | At the higher frequencies chosen , the cells need to be made much smaller but have the benefit that the telephones can be built to need a great deal less power . |
| 4 | The reason they would not otherwise do so becomes apparent from the biographical sources , from which it is clear that though it was possible to obtain mevleviyets from these medreses , men who did so tended not to rise much higher but to spend the rest of their lives in relatively low-ranking mevleviyets . |
| 5 | As has been pointed out " the purpose of many opposition amendments is not to make the Bill more generally acceptable but to make the Government less generally acceptable . " |
| 6 | When trying to relate the global structure of this solution to part of the Schwarzschild space-time , it should be emphasised that for this class of colliding plane waves the coordinate is not periodic but covers the full range . |
| 7 | I was generally optimistic but emphasised the potential for serious attacks . |
| 8 | Charles and Alexander Tennant were a little younger but knew the Burns family from childhood . |
| 9 | Now that was true until the late sixties early seventies and of course er you find there the election to the o to the White House of one Richard Milhous Nixon , conservative Republican er a man who was not above hiring gangsters and burglars to do his work for him , and this produced a reaction and if you read the , the presidential literature of the nineteen seventies you will find the opposite , you will find er political scientists , all American , er demanding reforms of the American system , not to make the president more powerful but to make the president less powerful . |
| 10 | ‘ The real agenda for the CSA is not making fathers more responsible but saving the Treasury money , ’ said Lakhani . |
| 11 | Kingswell Street ; rather dingy but notice the Becket and Sargeant School for Girls ‘ endowed ’ in 1738 . |
| 12 | They are not particularly wing-like but separate the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 13 | She would be around forty but had the appearance of a heroine in a Victorian novel — tall , willowy , ethereal . |
| 14 | All this is relatively new but represents the tip of the iceberg of unofficial work , which has a very broad base . |
| 15 | You will meet another mother down the road , whose child is not yet three but knows the letters of the alphabet and can count up to 100 . |
| 16 | The President 's functions are primarily ceremonial but include the appointment of the Federal Chancellor ( Bundeskanzler or head of government , currently Franz Vranitzky ) and , at the Chancellor 's recommendation , the other members of the government . |
| 17 | The President 's functions are primarily ceremonial but include the appointment of the Federal Chancellor ( Bundeskanzler-head of government ) and , at the Chancellor 's recommendation , the other members of the government . |
| 18 | There has been some interesting talk about defenders which is all very good BUT remember the source of the info about Jobson/ Bardsley was the News of the World . |
| 19 | It is very thorough but requires the user to be prepared to look in depth at each technical area of painting . |