Example sentences of "but [adv] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A popular modern interpretation of liberal ideas argues that private autonomy should be lost not through a special exercise of choice but rather through causing harm , or the risk of causing harm , to others . |
| 2 | But it seems that the principal focus of the section 25 duty is not on correcting cases of illegality but rather on ensuring that LEAs and responsible bodies play ‘ a positive role in relation to the elimination of sex discrimination ’ . |
| 3 | Hence the dictionary aims not at completeness but rather at covering the more usual words of the language and avoids rare usages of these words . |
| 4 | He was not so much concerned , as the tribal sculptor was , with conveying his idea about an object , but rather with recording it or interpreting it in pictorial terms . |
| 5 | Illuminative evaluation is concerned not so much with testing an educational programme but rather with describing and understanding the way in which the programme works , and how the participants are affected by it . |
| 6 | After more than 50 years in the acrylics business ICI has no intention of resting on its laurels but rather of seeking to earn more . |
| 7 | It is not a question of whether it is better or worse to remain a virgin or a bachelor , he wrote , but rather of bringing the terror to the surface . |
| 8 | It has not just been a question of choosing between state action and individual responsibility , but rather of finding the means to link the two effectively . |
| 9 | He felt that MacArthur was not interested now in a peace conference actually meeting but rather of putting forward the proposal in order for the Soviet Union to reject it . |
| 10 | He kindly but firmly remonstrates with his wife : " Paying the debt " has a clear double meaning in the sexual/conjugal context which the wife , who is made to respond to her husband 's ignorance not by laughing at him but rather by underlining his innocence/ignorance in a play of irony for the tale 's readers/listeners to respond to as they think fit , picks up upon and develops into a crude pun : " " taille " " here is polysemous , reflecting two homonyms , taille , " tally , bill " , whereby line 416 reads : " I am your wife ; notch it up on my account " |
| 11 | The industry built up a new audience not by giving a social elite privileges but rather by suggesting that anyone who had paid their admission price would be given value for money and in particular would be given films that had been made with care and attention . |
| 12 | They also claim that poverty is not alleviated by providing ever-increasing welfare benefits , but rather by providing an appropriate economic and social environment , in which individuals have the incentive and the ability to raise themselves out of poverty , without encountering the poverty or unemployment traps . |
| 13 | They have exercised control over procedural rights not by rigid prior categorisation , but rather by admitting that natural justice or fairness applies and varying the content of those rules according to the facts of the case . |
| 14 | The inclusion of sculptural elements into a given context makes one more conscious of time , not by slowing it down to a state of meditation , but rather by particularising time through the experience of the work in context . |
| 15 | Its real value does not lie in explaining the structure of individual sentences but rather in shedding light on a number of important areas which control information flow . |
| 16 | Some methods avoid native language explanations altogether on the grounds that such explanations can only be abstract and confusing to the learner , and that they make him spend his time not so much in learning the language but rather in learning about the language ( Mackey 1965 p 240 ) . |
| 17 | One religious who responded to God 's calling to celibacy explained : ‘ Chastity does not consist of deadening our heart but rather in giving it a liberty of love , a single aim , a transparency to God . |
| 18 | Not in getting , but rather in giving . |
| 19 | My young friend Ed Douglas is wrong in assuming that Victor Saunders is excluded from hero-candidacy by virtue of his Gordonstoun education , but right in suggesting its irrelevance ( April issue ) . |
| 20 | One lamentable practice which Crews rightly scorns is the increasingly revived trick or medieval rhetoric in which one attempts to substantiate one 's theoretical argument not by anything so vulgarly empirical as a fact or a text but merely by invoking a name from the sacred pantheon . |
| 21 | At this time modernization as a planning theme emphasized job creation and industrial diversification , but only at Killing worth , which is right on the outer edge of the inner ring , was there any integrated public sector planning in which even in principle housing and industrial development were associated ( see Byrne and Parson , 1983 ) . |
| 22 | Apple Computer Inc is opening its Company Store , previously accessible only to Apple employees , to the public , but only for buying Apple-logoed merchandise , computer accessories and software — not for buying Macintoshes or peripherals . |
| 23 | There is truth , it is possible at least to advance towards it , we must n't sit down in what Hume called ‘ a forlorn scepticism ’ , erm it will require great courage to pursue it , but only by pursuing it shall mankind prosper . |
| 24 | Marxists see all capitalist problems as resolvable but only by replacing this system with a different one . |
| 25 | Mr Neal has offered his own bill to check the Fed 's independence but only by requiring it to adopt policies that would eliminate US inflation , now in the 5 per cent range , by 1994 . |
| 26 | The scene shifted and I found myself at the head of a stairwell , aware that yet another place might be reached but only by somersaulting over the banister and walking my feet down the opposite wall as one might descend a defile in a crag . |
| 27 | The end result will be more information on asbestos roofing traced , but only by considering all of the documents listed under the much broader category of roofing . |
| 28 | It is possible to express many-to-many relationships using the hierarchical model , but only by creating two hierarchies . |
| 29 | Reading the popular music press helps build a picture of which record companies deal in the different styles of music , but only by reading the trade papers will you identify the key individuals in each company who should be invited to your gigs and sent your tape . |
| 30 | It is where you are able to do a competent presentation but only by investing an enormous amount of conscious effort into every aspect . |