Example sentences of "the [adj] but [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the beginning of his term as General Secretary , Brezhnev had been seen as a leader pursuing the art of the possible but by the end of his life , his leadership was seen , more pointedly , as the avoidance of the necessary . |
| 2 | The downtown antique shops which clustered in the streets off the Marktplatz sold the bric-a-brac , not of the nineteenth but of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries . |
| 3 | The station hotels at Euston and Curzon Street were exceptions in the 1830s but by the 1840s hotel accommodation had become an essential part of the planning of new railway stations . |
| 4 | This is necessary not only for the individual but for the development of society . |
| 5 | Also , for most communities infant mortality was reported to be lowest not at the second but at the third — in some communities even at the fourth — order . |
| 6 | Originally the class of persons entitled to claim was limited to the wife , husband , parent and child of the deceased but over the years the classes have been extended to enable all those classes mentioned in the 1976 Act to claim . |
| 7 | Numbers will increase gradually from the mid-1990s but by the turn of the century they will still be below current levels . |
| 8 | I said there was nothing else in the safe but behind the books there was a cardboard box — rectangular , like a shoe box , but longer . ’ |
| 9 | The EAT did not look at the offer of new terms in the abstract but in the light of the company 's financial difficulties . |
| 10 | The deal he seeks to make at Maastricht is not with the Twelve but with the 1922 Committee . |
| 11 | MRI may show involvement of the renal veins and inferior vena cava in renal cell carcinoma and has the advantage over computed tomography of demonstrating the tumour/thrombus not only in the axial but in the coronal plane where the superior and inferior extent of involvement can be clearly shown . |
| 12 | The diphthong OA is the same but with the initial mouth opening being smaller as in : |
| 13 | And whatever we do , if it was a three , a seven , or a ten , a five just do the same but with the X. |
| 14 | A recent case on settlorship is Butler v Wilden 61 TC 666 where shares in effectively a shell company were placed into the names of two children who paid the appropriate price for the same but with the company being built up by two brothers Graham and Gary . |
| 15 | The mechanics had basically the same but with an extra hundred-square-foot room at the back . |
| 16 | That Alex Wyllie , the grizzled New Zealand coach , regards this as the All Blacks ' most important tour since the Cup is a tribute not to the Welsh but to the necessity of bringing through the next generation of players . |
| 17 | Woosnam only had an eight iron to the green but with a target just 49 feet wide , the difficulty lay in keeping the ball on the green . |
| 18 | The FT-SE 100 Index shed around 4 points at 2717.9 at the close but over the next few weeks all eyes will be on the pound . |
| 19 | It is there in the Ninth but in the Ninth there is great beauty and a sense of harmony with death . |
| 20 | Whereas most of the models today that we think of we regard them as a mixture of the two but with a he and , depending on the type of or the piece of perception that we 're working on , we have either one the other . |
| 21 | His own officials meanwhile conducted a further loyalty check on government employees , and Vice-President Nixon boasted " We " re kicking the Communists and fellow travellers … out of the government not by the hundred but by the thousands . " |
| 22 | The initmate scenes she interrogates purport to represent the normal and the everyday but in the selection process she has constructed a cogent version of her ‘ family ’ , aimed at a particular art audience . |
| 23 | God is not God of the dead but of the living ( Mark 12:27 ) . |
| 24 | He gave £50 million , which of course made an immense difference to life at the National Gallery , not only in the 1980s but for the future . |