Example sentences of "'s [noun] but [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Will delight fans of Boswell and Rumpole alike , ’ claims one critic , but it 's McKern 's TV incarnation which is the draw , and such audience involvement as exists is not with Edgeworth 's text but with the actor 's genial clowning . |
| 2 | And so there is reason to look in Hardy 's poetry not just for allusions to Virgil 's Latin but for echoes of Dryden 's English . |
| 3 | The breach with the inherited system lay not in Godoy 's policies but in the relegation to impotence of the trained bureaucrats who had been the servants of Charles III ; it lay in the scandalous origins and untrammelled nature of his power as the queen 's supposed lover and the ‘ dearest friend ’ of the complaisant Charles IV . |
| 4 | Godfrey was a member of Peyton 's Gang but after receiving , in his capacity as a JP , the Popish Plot depositions of the false informer Titus Oates [ q.v . ] , |
| 5 | I pointed Armstrong towards Regent 's Park but after Chalk Farm I cut through to Islington and down York Way to the Waterside Inn . |
| 6 | It might have been assumed that the corollary was that the prosecution did not have to prove that the accused assumed the rights of the owner contrary to the owner 's wishes but in Morris it was held that a person appropriated only if he adversely interfered with or usurped the rights of the owner . |
| 7 | Ken Bates , Chelsea 's chairman but with 27 p.c of Cabra shares , wants to strike an alternative deal . |
| 8 | Tearing each other 's hair but of course the forewoman would come on the scene and she would settle it . |
| 9 | The latter airlifted $2.2 billion worth of weaponry to prevent Israel 's defeat but on condition that it did not press home a counter-attack . |
| 10 | I should have known that Jean-Claude would wish to return to Paris a few days prior to the anniversary of Montaine 's death , a date embossed not only on his and Mme Guérigny 's mind but on my own . |
| 11 | The growing threat of fascism after Hitler 's accession to power in Germany in 1933 was to transform perceptions of the Soviet state not simply in Nizan 's mind but in the minds of a whole generation of left-wing intellectuals . |
| 12 | It 's impossible to say if this element affected the Asian research scientist 's vote but in General Elections it is the issues , usually , which dominate . |
| 13 | Creggan could not understand the Man 's words but to him they seemed to sound like that . |
| 14 | We have all done things which are wrong in God 's eyes but through Jesus God has ensured that any punishment we deserve has already been served . |
| 15 | The realisation that he was a sinner not only in men 's eyes but in God 's led to his conversion in February 1779 . |
| 16 | Communication is not a matter of trying to " put something " into the other person 's perception but of arranging for that perception to , temporarily , coincide with one 's own . |
| 17 | In 844 Kenneth MacAlpin , a Dalriadic Scot on his father 's side but with a mother of Pictish royal blood , became king of both the Picts and the Scots . |
| 18 | ‘ Channel ’ relates not to the preamp 's channels but to the MIDI channels that the preamp can send or receive on . |
| 19 | Painted very much under Freud 's influence but with a neo-romantic hangover , this portrait incorporates a considerable amount of emotive distortion which serves , not to break the realist mode , but to enhance the immediacy of the sitter 's presence , so that Tindle 's face seems to press forward from within the picture space with almost mesmerising effect . |
| 20 | Engel is German by birth but has lived in Britain for the last 20 years , and this mixed background has been reflected not only in Melancholia 's plot but in its production history , as it has been co-financed by the British Film Institute and the Hamburg company Lichtblick . |
| 21 | Thirteen years later , Fields and Stansbury did a follow-up study of Break 's work but with some changes in the research methodology which were likely to increase the proportion of those reporting disincentive effects . |
| 22 | The RPF had agreed not to interfere with the centre 's work but in February it was ransacked by soldiers wearing Ugandan uniforms . |
| 23 | I meddle with no tradesmen 's matters nor women 's matters but with the awl . |
| 24 | I meddle with no tradesmen 's matters nor women 's matters but with the awl . |
| 25 | I meddle with no tradesmen 's matters nor women 's matters but with awl . |
| 26 | I meddle with no tradesmen 's matters nor women 's matters but with the awl . |
| 27 | The reference to ‘ classiness ’ , mentioned above , is not a dig at Mr Major 's origins but at his style . |
| 28 | A less important category is those contracts which are material to the continuing conduct of the vendor 's business but without which the business can still be operated after completion , albeit on a smaller scale . |
| 29 | I understand John McGrath 's sentiments but over the last decade or so the political dynamic of our society has changed so much , the social fabric has been so profoundly ravished that a different form of theatre is called for . ’ |
| 30 | Never did I speak for the truth 's sake but for my own … ‘ |