Example sentences of "[art] [adj] but [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maps have been drawn to illustrate just what organ is linked to which part of the sole but the soles are not the only areas used : there are said to be reflexes on the tops of the feet and a short way up the backs of the legs . |
| 2 | There is no indication how they decided what had to be paid for by the Stent but the total liability was divided amongst 132 quarter lands . |
| 3 | There is no indication how they decided what had to be paid for by the Stent but the total liability was divided amongst 132 quarter lands . |
| 4 | The summer timetable saw very little change at the Western end of the Cambrian but a notable addition was an 07:00 Newtown to Birmingham service each weekday using stock and crews brought out a a passenger service from Salop . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , it seems the loudest critics of English soccer are now not the Scots but the English themselves . |
| 6 | By comparison the scientist is burdened with his instruments and only a few of the greatest of them feel the infinite but the mystic is drowned in it . |
| 7 | The manager and the subordinate jointly review performance focusing not on the individual but the latter 's work situation . |
| 8 | At its simplest , sociobiology is arguing , then , that the central drive affecting individual and social behaviour is not the preservation of the individual but the maximisation of the individual 's genes into future generations . |
| 9 | Plot similar to The Accused but no less disturbing . |
| 10 | The court was an ultimate court of morality : the issues were not the guilt or innocence of the accused but the guilt or innocence of those who opposed apartheid . ’ |
| 11 | In relation to the disclosure to the defence of material in the possession of the prosecution , the key is fairness to the accused but the practice varies between different jurisdictions in the common law world . |
| 12 | What we have in both the approaches is an ‘ essentialist ’ view of sexuality ; sex conceptualised as an overpowering force in the individual that shapes not only the personal but the social life as well . |
| 13 | I ca n't swear to the following but the headmaster said Basil was undoubtedly a gentleman , but he 'd rather not have his brother in case he turned out the same . |
| 14 | I do n't want to dwell too much on the obvious but a number of things should be pointed out here . |
| 15 | It was never true that the majority of local parties were under the control of the Left but the more active and vocal Constituencies were becoming so by 1939 . |
| 16 | What we owned we stole and filched , not from the poor but the merchants , the lawyers , the fat and the rich . |
| 17 | They looked lovely on the mantelpiece in the flat but a new bouquet would not go astray at this stage . |
| 18 | Rain and Oliver called at the flat but the fingerprints man had still not been . |
| 19 | It is in a rather different sense that it is said of the wicked that they will soon fade like the grass ( Ps 37.2 ) , for there it is not an inbuilt weakness of the human constitution that accounts for the imminent death of the wicked but a fate peculiar to wrongdoers . |
| 20 | They do all the attacking but the other team do all the scoring . |
| 21 | Does the seniority structure of the professions tend to make professional courses conservative and traditional , not only in the overt but the hidden curriculum ? |
| 22 | It was a problem ( to be discussed below in chapter 5 ) which was to perplex not only the wealthy but every level of the middle classes for the remainder of the century . |
| 23 | This ‘ embarrassment ’ already identified by Christopher Ricks in connection with Keats ' poetic references to women , was not an evasion of the sensual but a deliberate avoidance of direct reference , a coyness that actually intensified erotic readings and one which may be said to dominate British sculpture during the period 1880–1910 , particularly in its representations of women . |
| 24 | Touchmaster are bringing out a range of software designed specifically for use with their tablet ; games and educational programs in the main but the real proof of success will come if independent software houses decide to support it . |
| 25 | There is good reason why we should not speak ill of the dead but no good reason why we should not think it , if it seems to be necessary . |
| 26 | A limited number attend clubs ( such as Gateway , sports , orchestra , for the dead but the majority attend classes , about 50 per cent of them within the adult basic education framework . |
| 27 | The dead would have to bury the dead but the unhappy living might still be helped by goodwill . |
| 28 | A little later , to the time of the ‘ Polygnotan ’ red-figure vases , belongs a very small piece , not a cup-interior but the slightly domed surface of a covered cup ( fig. 112 ; one can just see the orifice for drinking at the bottom ) . |
| 29 | So what I 'm saying to you is , do n't go in over the top , you know , five , just a normal but a firm handshake because a man would expect it because a weak ha ha handshake can be irritating and the same thing if she is a woman |
| 30 | Nevertheless , if we say not ‘ dog ’ but ‘ My — dog-Rover-with — the — white — spots- and — the-stumpy-tail ’ , there can be no doubt that we intend not only a specific but a unique reference . |