Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] but [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the project , the banks lend money in the normal way but the Department of Industry agrees to refund 80 per cent of it if the firm goes bust . |
| 2 | The old agrarian basis of the economy survived well into the Georgian era but the enormous growth of population made a new form of local society unavoidable and the Enclosure Award of 1766 put the final seal of approval on changes that had long been underway . |
| 3 | However , morally speaking , the nature of these states can not be seen to be catering for the betterment of the broad masses but the consolidation of a ruling groups power . |
| 4 | Arctic Finland , in contrast to both Norway and Sweden , is flat , a vast tundra forest with lakes that is ideal country for the pulka-pulling skier but a little less inspiring for the walker . |
| 5 | From it , Glen Loy opens an inviting way into the hilly interior but the object that most excites attention is the tremendous bulk of Ben Nevis on the far side of the valley , better seen from here than from any other low viewpoint . |
| 6 | As we saw just now in that passage in Isaiah 63 , the Spirit is the personal expression of God himself , and can be grieved : he is holy , not only the divine power but the moral character of God : he is God in action for the benefit of his people — notice how the Spirit is equated with the ‘ arm ’ of Yahweh , that is to say his saving activity . |
| 7 | Appearance money is officially frowned upon by the European Tour but the creases in the foreheads of the officers have not been discerned by the Spaniard . |
| 8 | These Dutch cattle were not of the Friesian type but an old type which was devastated by cattle plague in the Netherlands in 1745 . |
| 9 | In the early Middle Ages it often meant kaleidoscopic change on the political scene but the new pattern ( unlike a kaleidoscope 's ) took some time to form . |
| 10 | This is not the perspective of the dispassionate scientist or the political thinker but the missionary zeal of the revolutionary demanding participation by others . |
| 11 | Profit remained the sole objective but the means of achieving it was transformed . |
| 12 | Ideas and concepts may thus be in fact misleading as to the real condition of existence ; they are not the reflection of the economic system but the product of a complex historical process of changing adaptation . |
| 13 | The thing about Mr Healey 's delightful book is not only the bloody poetry but the classical allusions . |
| 14 | SPAR 79p for six ( 13p each ) : The right look but the pastry is very hard . |
| 15 | The mug was the right size but the wrong design , too pretty , for his large , gnarled hand , rough with scar tissue and discoloured by years of work in paint and wood . |
| 16 | What we 're talking about , w what we intend to talk about in July is not just whether or not our policies are the right ones but the practicality of implementation , which is actually the hardest bit of all to grasp , and what sort of things we might do , whether it 's about spending more money , whether it 's about influencing people , whether it 's about physically restraining people on where they should go . |
| 17 | Their idea seemed to be on the right track but the quantities of helium were never going to fill an airship . |
| 18 | Erm the way you were doing it will sometimes give the right answer but the easiest way |
| 19 | This makes sense : war and politics were perceived by lay participants as subject to supernatural interventions that could be magically invoked as well as interpreted — hence the important role of churchmen and their rituals in these areas of public contestation and conflict , for instance in not just the retrospective presentation but the preliminary " staging " of battles as Judgements of God . |
| 20 | ‘ Personally , ’ he said , ‘ I support the Labour party but the armed forces are sworn to uphold the government of the day , so I 'll vote Conservative , of course . ’ |
| 21 | One would be if- I will not say the Labour Party but the extreme Labour Party — were to get so powerful that it would be a menace and we should have thrown on the other scale all that was moderate in the Liberal Party as well as our own Party . |
| 22 | Hence the Left was not merely confined to two small and quarrelsome groups outside the Labour Party but the Party itself was quite satisfied to keep things that way . |
| 23 | There has been progress in the integration of community languages into the mainstream curriculum but the progress is pitifully slow , with a number of factors compounding a lack of confidence amongst those campaigning for greater sensitivity towards and encouragement of the forms of language brought by pupils into British Schools . |
| 24 | In trying to bring cattle thieves to justice they faced not only the usual difficulties but a certain amount of popular tolerance of the crime . |
| 25 | A majority of the interviews — 1,478 — were conducted across Great Britain in the usual way but an additional 1,000 were conducted in the Conservatives ’ 50 most marginal constituencies . |
| 26 | The test is marked in the usual manner but the final score is deducted from the maximum possible marks , to give penalties . |
| 27 | She had met her connection in the usual place but the moment the deal was struck they were busted by three plainclothes policemen who had been watching them from an unmarked car on the opposite side of the road . |
| 28 | ( The outline comes from the semantic net but the link labels are not printed here ) |
| 29 | Gothic was not only the English style but the ‘ Christian ’ style . |
| 30 | The crucial issue , union reps say , is not so much the imposition of a maximum 1.5 per cent increase in line with the rest of the public sector but the abandonment of the all-party agreement on the fire service pay formula . |