Example sentences of "and [noun] but [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dorothea had never considered the world was a better place for her own existence and activities but surely Alida could feel just that ? |
| 2 | You can not only experiment with different feet positions and weighting but also with the angle at which the feet are placed across the board . |
| 3 | Such research and development within the industry is increasingly important since the run down of the research previously undertaken by the MAFF laboratories at Slough and Tolworth but no longer available ‘ beyond the farm gate ’ . |
| 4 | Though they serve as parent representatives they are unlikely to be representative parents typical of the average parent at the school so they need to be encouraged to become involved in as many of the schools activities as possible , not only to gauge parental feelings and attitudes but energetically to engage in identifying ways of improving the school 's performance . |
| 5 | The stimulus of individual and group recovery and of working in the professional field of addictive disease and recovery is that each new discovery brings not only its own understanding and rewards but also the promise of more . |
| 6 | The government has argued that many schools consistently secure good order ‘ not simply by a regime of sanctions and rewards but more broadly by creating within the school … . positive attitudes to good behaviour ’ . |
| 7 | During this session teachers noticed how quickly most of the pupils related the information in the tape/slide sequence and in books from the library to modern fictional recreations — not just to films such as Hope and Glory but also to the series Dad 's Army which had recently been repeated on television . |
| 8 | SEAN CONNERY : the sum of the heroes he 's played ; inset , the perfect uncle , authoritative and kind but slightly removed , Connery revisits his old school in Edinburgh |
| 9 | This was reflected in a series of official government reports and White Papers , which offered the prospect of a still greater expansion of local authority spending and responsibility but only on the basis of substantial reorganization to provide greater efficiency and improve the calibre of councillors and officers . |
| 10 | Josiah Wedgwood was a major backer of projects forming links to Staffordshire , not only to cheapen the costs of his intake of clay and flints but also because steadier transit on canals reduced the breakage losses in carrying pottery . |
| 11 | Staff and pupils at Chosen Hill have been impressed not just by Chris 's imagination and creativity but also by his hard work . |
| 12 | To derive appropriate interpretations for its input , a natural language processing ( NLP ) system must take account not only of absolute constraints on possible structures and meanings but also of preferences that serve not to rule out individual readings as inherently unacceptable , but to give priority to more acceptable readings over less acceptable ones . |
| 13 | As for our own species , the oldest evidence , going back to possibly about 35,000 BC , reveals that the dead were not only equipped with weapons , tools , and ornaments but also with food , which must often have been in short supply among the living . |
| 14 | At home , as she still thought of it , the evening had been one of shared companionship and merrymaking but here , once joined by the family , the workers were subdued , their voices muted . |
| 15 | So whoever handles your case must know what they are doing , otherwise they may not only cost you time and money but also any chances of ever collecting . |
| 16 | Fibre is found in fresh fruit and vegetables but mostly in wholegrain cereals and bread . |
| 17 | The hardest part was establishing the rhythm and co-ordination but luckily he 's a tolerant chap who did n't appear to mind when I got it wrong . ’ |
| 18 | We must consider here not only subject-specific knowledge and skills but also the child 's general personal and social development , for which every teacher is responsible . |
| 19 | He alleged that Israel possessed more than 300 nuclear weapons , some of them targeted not only at Arab oil fields and cities but also against southern cities of the Soviet Union . |
| 20 | These correspondences indicate the rapidity with which writers and compilers but also printers and publishers were able to respond to developing events . |
| 21 | The loss of their lands was a blow not just to episcopal prestige and income but also to episcopal management and the pastoral care of a diocese ; it can not have been reassuring to any bishop to see how often temporalities were at the risk of malicious accusation or expedient suspicion . |
| 22 | This research will contrast this approach with a wider and more general one where household living standards depend on household size and income but also household working behaviour and future incomes . |
| 23 | Not only of its fastnesses and vastnesses but also of the minute detailing of existence upon our own planet : its climatic patterns and the plate tectonics that give rise to earthquakes , volcanoes , fold mountains and the oceanic ridges . |
| 24 | Imports into Australia today are legion , coming not only from the UK and Germany but also from Finland , Italy and the USA . |
| 25 | In return for these exports the Slovenes were able to import a range of goods not only from Italy and Germany but also from the Levant and the Far East , via Trieste and Venice . |
| 26 | For example , the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century was constituted not only by the new theories of Descartes , Galileo and Newton but also by new ways of experiencing the world , interacting with it and thinking about it . |
| 27 | It must not only drop its concern for style and ethos but also for parish boundaries . |
| 28 | In a like manner the force on an electron in an electric field has magnitude and direction but only exists at the coordinates of the electron . |
| 29 | Wyatt answers the charge that he alters his device ( his project and designs but also his heraldic sign — the symbolic means by which he announces his public identity ) by using the analogy of changing seasons to suggest mutability is an inevitable and indeed appropriate condition . |
| 30 | Our approaches were from very different angles in time and geography but almost identical in impression . |