Example sentences of "[noun] but [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This applies not only to the Christian religion but to all others as well . |
| 2 | His parents had neglected this aspect of his upbringing , having largely abandoned their religion but for a few outer forms before he was born . |
| 3 | In fact , the struggle was longer , on a greater scale , and with an outcome very different from that anticipated ; so that , as far as Eliot was concerned , the task , as his Notes towards the Definition of Culture ( 1948 ) made clear , was not merely that of rescuing the Christian religion but of salvaging culture itself . |
| 4 | To suggest that the struggle was not between science and religion but over cultural leadership may expel the conflict through the front door , but it still returns through the back . |
| 5 | As a result history is driven not by ideas and religion but by the economic basis of our culture . |
| 6 | Women were defined not only by convention and religion but by ineffective birth control , fear of venereal disease , and by sexual ignorance , which not surprisingly , the physician and lecturer , Sir James Paget , found to be ‘ very common among well educated women ’ . |
| 7 | They are thus not simply a mentality derived from popular religion but from a traditional Roman catholicism which held sway in catholic Europe from the post-Reformation period and remained unchallenged until the 1960s . |
| 8 | a certain speed but in fact |
| 9 | Although Hubble 's work ( with subsequent numerical amendment ) has been the principal empirical basis of cosmology , this is not a book about cosmology but about astronomical observation beyond the Galaxy . |
| 10 | She had seen it there not in terrible isolation but as a part , a vital part , of a larger pattern — one that pointed the way towards completion of her task . |
| 11 | But perhaps the new assertiveness of British Muslims should be seen as a sign not of isolation but of integration . |
| 12 | As in the earlier key stages , we recommend that where the ‘ secretarial ’ aspects ( presentation , spelling , handwriting ) apply , they should not be assessed in isolation but through purposeful writing activities . |
| 13 | Such an exercise is , therefore , best done not in isolation but in co-operation with the other churches . |
| 14 | There 's still much about meningitis which remains a mystery — why , for instance , cases of the disease come not in isolation but in localised clusters . |
| 15 | Much could be said about all these characteristics but of most significance for our purpose is the role of impartiality in relation to legislative and legal reasoning . |
| 16 | Some of the dissolved minerals are ‘ temporary ’ hardeners and will be removed if the water is heated above 70°C , but this will give rise to fur or scale , not just in kettles but in other hidden parts of the hot water system . |
| 17 | I do n't know how other people are doing the guidelines but by definition the divisional guidelines must n't say , must define who the authorised people are , or those . |
| 18 | Thus Turner has written that the sporadic appearance of trade unionism arose not from the absence of collective association but from the " intermittence " of the actual need for collective action " . |
| 19 | The hospital gave Allison the phone number of the Miscarriage Association but in her current state of mind it did n't help . |
| 20 | In one particular case we find progressive assimilation of manner , when a word-initial follows a plosive or nasal at the end of a preceding word : it is very common to find that the C i becomes identical in manner to the C f but with dental place of articulation . |
| 21 | The formal discipline can sometimes tidy up muddled thinking but at other times it can interfere with the creatively developing interaction between trainer and trainee . |
| 22 | Culver Lodge Hotel is situated in a quiet part of Shanklin but within easy reach of the town centre and beach . |
| 23 | Abbot Ælfric stressed Christ 's humility , describing in his homily The Exaltation of the Holy Cross how an angel reminded the seventh-century Byzantine emperor Heraclius that he " would not encircle his head with a golden crown , but with one of thorns " , and that before the crucifixion " he was not clothed in purple , nor adorned with a royal crown , nor rode he … upon a horse but upon the back of an ass " . |
| 24 | We may be handling a horse and get a feeling that we are in tune with the horse and that it is accepting and even anticipating whatever we want to do : we are in rapport with the horse , and are communicating with the horse but in a way that is not through the other senses . |
| 25 | Perhaps all that 's needed to be a good judge of another person is the art of listening , not only with our ears but with our whole attention . |
| 26 | Perhaps the bat detects echoes not with its ears but with sensitive regions close to the ears , the functioning of which was impaired when the bat 's ears were plugged . |
| 27 | In the ten years after 1727 he managed to redeem £6,500,000 worth of annuities and South Sea stock but after that the fund was " raided " for purposes other than liquidating the public debt . |
| 28 | Springbok ban cost him about 50 caps but at 34 still quick and dangerous . |
| 29 | His tongue slid against hers ; she shuddered , not with anger nor with displeasure but with some dark , deep emotion . |
| 30 | Before leaving London I saw the sights , from the Tower to Trafalgar Square and I also had a wander through Soho which I remember not so much for its more dubious side but for all the stalls of fruit and vegetables , every type , colour and description . |