Example sentences of "but on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another book about the age of Dürer , but on a different topic , is The Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany , by Michael Baxandall , published in 1980 . |
| 2 | It was the eternal noise at that bend in the river , but on a normal day it could n't be heard here . |
| 3 | Fortunately not only did growth return but on a scale far exceeding expectations . |
| 4 | ‘ There is a moral crisis in sport , not only in Canada but on a worldwide scale , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Bonus shares will also be available for non-customers , but on a less favourable basis of one for 20 up to a maximum investment of £7,500 . |
| 6 | Today , thanks to overcrowding and overdevelopment , it is a bit of a nightmare in season , but on a bright day there is still no better place to eat chips with mayonnaise . |
| 7 | There also exist cases where the constituent groups of gentile constitutions are not really based either on patrilineal or matrilineal descent , but on a mixture of kinship and locality . |
| 8 | They had drunk a great deal and the night was warm , but on a sudden they were both stone-cold sober . |
| 9 | ‘ But on a point of handicapping , why has he been raised 4lb after finishing second in the Mackeson , while Desert Orchid has been dropped 2lb for finishing second to Long Engagement ? ’ |
| 10 | This boy , in spite of a studious shyness with most adults and many girls , had somehow acquired a self-confidence based , not so much on achievement in games or school work , but on a sense of the rightness of what he was doing with his own free time . |
| 11 | The bread and butter was served not in huge chunks like at elevenses , but on a pretty dish with a golden edge , in thinly-cut slices . |
| 12 | ‘ But on a much smaller scale , is n't it ? ’ came the cut-glass tone . |
| 13 | During the third century synodical government became so developed that synods used to meet not merely at times of crisis but on a regular basis every year , normally between Easter and Pentecost . |
| 14 | But on a rainy March afternoon in 1988 it must have seemed a million miles from home . |
| 15 | Therefore , gaining resources may not depend on the logic of the case but on a number of other factors . |
| 16 | Western agencies are very envious of Mossad because it relies not on huge arrays of computerised technology but on a small group of efficient and dedicated men and women who are not bothered by any form of morality so long as Israel benefits . |
| 17 | In its purest form , the doctrine advocated a return to subsistence economy but on a less individualistic and more communal basis . |
| 18 | The study by Arnoult ( 1953 ) , mentioned in the preceding section of this chapter , included a condition in which the subjects were tested not on a discriminative motor task but on a task which required them to make a judgement about whether two stimuli presented together were the same as or different from one another . |
| 19 | The following , for instance , is just one among thousands : ‘ cooperate most of the time , but on a random 10 per cent of rounds throw in a defect ’ . |
| 20 | But on a much longer time-scale , involving thousands of years , they behave differently and can ‘ flow ’ like a highly-viscous liquid , millions of times more viscous than even the stickiest treacle . |
| 21 | It was mentioned in chapter one that the rocks making up the Earth 's mantle show the same kind of behaviour — on a short time-scale , they are rigid ( ’ solid ’ ) enough to transmit shock waves from earthquakes , but on a much longer time-scale , they can ‘ flow ’ , and accommodate the convection movements which are believed to provide the driving mechanisms behind Plate Tectonics . |
| 22 | The flows are covered with large , high wrinkles and ridges , concentric with the edges of the flow , where the stiff surface layer was crinkled up by the pressure of more material arriving from behind — rather like a pahoehoe surface on a basalt lava , but on a much bigger scale . |
| 23 | Nails was always roaming about on his own but on a night like this there was not much attraction in it . |
| 24 | During the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries cash cropping gradually increased , including the resumption of coffee cultivation but on a much more limited basis than hitherto . |
| 25 | Some of the earlier industries remain but on a much smaller scale . |
| 26 | But on a more fundamental level the fiasco illustrates the futility of trying to solve political decisions by mathematical models . |
| 27 | Stones can be moved around until you get it right , but on a lawn the pattern should be laid out with pegs initially . |
| 28 | The beauty of renewable energy is that it does n't rely on one source only , such as wind or solar , but on a whole range of different sources . |
| 29 | But one hopes they would have reached this view on grounds not of personal taste or fashion , but on a calculus of harm which J.S. Mill would have recognised and respected . |
| 30 | There are stories of Elvis being a very generous person , not just financially but on a personal basis … |