Example sentences of "but [adv] with [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man spoke Imperial Gothic with no trace of the local husky accent , but rather with a kind of spooky affectation — almost , thought Jaq , an alien affectation . |
| 2 | Nobody forces you to consume the equivalent of halfa dozen eggs at one meal , but it is very easy to do so , so if you have eaten a mousseline of scallops , red mullet , and écrevisses floating in a lake of sabayon sauce , then do not follow it with a honey ice cream or one of those ali baba affairs nor with a peach charlotte containing five egg yolks , but rather with a tarte fine chaude aux pommes acidulées , which is nothing more outlandish or richer than an old-fashioned apple tart made on a base of puff pastry . |
| 3 | Usually , other world religions will be presented separately and in an open-ended approach — neither from a committed stance nor for commitment but rather with a view to fostering respect and understanding of other people 's beliefs and customs . |
| 4 | This has nothing to do with NHS reforms but rather with an excess of tender concern on my part . |
| 5 | The Emperor , however , had not sought power simply in order to dazzle contemporaries with spectacle , but rather with the aim of putting France in the forefront of general progress and restoring her to what he considered to be her rightful place in Europe . |
| 6 | In the most recent case , the court was concerned not so much with the deliberate communication of confidential information but rather with the danger posed by the " chance remark " or the " inadvertent " risk of leaking the information . |
| 7 | The liberals of Cadiz were not primarily concerned with a socially desirable redistribution of landed property but rather with the establishment of clear and absolute property rights — the Roman Law notion of jus utendi et abutendi as against the medieval confusions of multiple claims to enjoy the use of the same piece of property . |
| 8 | The hon. Gentleman and other hon. Gentlemen will know that those cases are still looked at fairly , but perhaps with the attitude that all the claimants were given a form and asked to sign their name at the bottom of the list , rather than submitted a carefully considered claim . |
| 9 | We wanted , on the whole , to be good , not just through fear of punishment , but perhaps with an element of pride . |
| 10 | No , this recent information must have been relayed partly out of pride but obviously with the hope that Celia might have some suitable friend who needed a nanny . |
| 11 | ‘ The excuse was a shopping trip , but obviously with the intention of not returning . |
| 12 | In Portuguese , for example , the consonant clusters /st , sp , sk/ occur , but only with a syllable division between them /-s.p- , -s.t- , -sk-/ . |
| 13 | President Ranasinghe Premadasa offered to reopen a dialogue with the LTTE on July 8 , but only with the involvement of the international community and " in a manner acceptable to us " . |
| 14 | Where there is no solicitor or guardian , documents may be served on the child but only with the leave of the court . |
| 15 | In this connection , evidence for continental movements of considerable antiquity has been found in Scotland , but only with the advantage of hindsight . |
| 16 | Mergers and takeovers would be possible at any time , but only with the board 's consent . |
| 17 | As in biblical times , the king became ‘ the anointed one ’ , but only with the approbation of the Church . |
| 18 | The present discussion , is not , however , concerned with the factual merits of these explanations , but only with the shape that they take . |
| 19 | In summary , the image created by the research of the period was of a growing sector of the population , able to remain active in the community after withdrawal from full-time paid labour , but only with the assistance of that community . |
| 20 | But only with the opening of the emancipationist campaign in the 1820s did local societies again become a major organisational feature of antislavery . |
| 21 | The Constitution was open to revision after seven years , and then after every 10 years , but only with the consent of the Melanesian majority . |
| 22 | The comparison is a little strong , but only with the intention of making an important point . |
| 23 | The rule has been relaxed so as to enable infants to make a binding settlement of their property upon marriage , but only with the sanction of the court . |
| 24 | This is fairly easy to answer , but only with the proviso that a given conjunction of circumstances will set prices spiralling upward again . |
| 25 | In early societies relationships between people are governed by such things as their gender , their age , and their family relationships ( these Maine called status relations ) , while in more advanced societies they are governed by contractual arrangements which are not concerned with the status of those involved , but only with the matter which brings the individuals together . |
| 26 | You have taken liberties that you can take with a son , but not with a leader ’ ( Bourne : 1987 , p. 243 ) . |
| 27 | Yeah but not with a bunch of old fucking faggots running around |
| 28 | Breaking sharply with some of the dominant ideas of traditional labour movement socialism — but not with the necessity of having class politics — the conference leaflet stated that Women for Socialism ‘ aims to create a socialism intrinsically feminist that is for all women including Black women , lesbians and differently abed women … developing an anti-racist , anti-imperialist feminist perspective which is inseparable from the struggle for socialism ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm disappointed but not with the performance . |
| 30 | Believe me , I am with you and you will get to Kano , but not with the help of a God who cheats for you . |