Example sentences of "[noun sg] but [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His parents had neglected this aspect of his upbringing , having largely abandoned their religion but for a few outer forms before he was born . |
| 2 | As a result history is driven not by ideas and religion but by the economic basis of our culture . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 " . |
| 6 | 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 " . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Er P C er used the door opener which is a hydraulic system er it 's a jack type principal that when activated er forces the frame apart at the side but at the same time should exert pressure onto the door and then er knock should knock it in very quickly . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | collective bargaining is not typically concluded by a contract , specifying in detail the future rights and duties of either side but by an understanding [ which ] must depend on personal relationships and customary usages . |
| 11 | Macro focusing is generally done , not by the normal focus ring but by the zoom lever , and the adjustment needs to be done carefully to obtain maximum sharpness . |
| 12 | Although the ALP suffered an adverse swing of approximately 6 per cent , the most significant gains were made not by the opposition coalition but by the Democrats ( whose share of the vote increased from 6 to 11 per cent ) and by independent and environmental candidates . |
| 13 | I often sleep in my coat , ’ he backed away from her , all the way towards the door ; then on the landing , and for no reason that he could give to himself , he turned and ran not towards his bedroom but across the landing , over the gallery , down the stairs , through the hall to the front door . |
| 14 | Grants are available for a wide range of capital investments and the rates do not appear to vary with the type of investment but with the nature of the production system ( average rates of 22.4% for milk cows , 28.3% for beef cows and 31.2% for sheep units in the Auvergne ) and the LFA zone ( 34.0% in the ‘ montagne ’ and ‘ piedmont ’ ; 28.5% in the ‘ hors montagne ’ and 21. 1 % outside the LFA ) . |
| 15 | At the request of the salon 's owner they met the girls not at the salon but in a hotel nearby . |
| 16 | One of the many boasts made by the Free Church Council 's driving force , Hughes , was that the Free Church Council was the real representative in England not only of undiluted Protestantism but of the de facto Church of the English-speaking world . |
| 17 | Moreover , in determining what is extraordinary or unreasonable the courts can have regard not only to the interests of the defendant but to the public interest as well . |
| 18 | Hereford cider producers Bulmers had been rumoured to be considering a bid but in the end have apparently not tendered an offer , fearing a referral by the Office of Fair Trading to the Monopolies Commission . |
| 19 | He therefore concentrated his attention not on the Kent coast but on the Isle of Wight , where the French had actually landed in the past and which , once occupied , could serve as a base to paralyse and capture Portsmouth . |
| 20 | He too received his higher education not in the metropole but in a newly-founded colonial college , thus opening up horizons which previously would have been closed to Indonesians like him . |
| 21 | It is not worth a mention but for the fact its distribution and promotion is funded by our own dear British Film Institute . |
| 22 | The acuteness of the goods famine must certainly be alleviated and not in some remote future but during the next few years . |
| 23 | When Winston Smith and O'Brien pledge themselves to a revolution against dictatorship , the toast is not to the future but to the past which , as O'Brien puts it with mock gravity , is ‘ more important ’ . |
| 24 | The 76-year-old Euro-MP , who currently lives in West Germany , said he would of course not rule out a run some time in the future but for the moment he feels he can do more to promote his country in the European parliament . |
| 25 | S. F Perry saw the exercise not as a disappointment but as an heartening indicator of future progress : |
| 26 | Farrell recoiled , not from the verbal tirade but from the rank stench that wafted over him every time Dashwood spoke . |
| 27 | He saw them not as a party of racial obsession but as a right-wing ginger group to keep the Conservative party on the proper lines . |
| 28 | Unlike the mystic , the prophetic visionary believes that he undergoes this fearful experience for the sake of mankind : God does not send these revelations for their own edification but for the sake of their people . |
| 29 | But , in entering the arena , these early Christians found that , ‘ Our struggle is not against flesh and blood but against the rulers , the authorities , against the power of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms . ' |
| 30 | At the present time we are much in prayer for a lad called David and we would ask you all to join in prayer for him as he battles against his addiction to alcohol — remembering our battle is not against flesh and blood but against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms . |