Example sentences of "['s] [noun] but [prep] [art] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Channel ’ relates not to the preamp 's channels but to the MIDI channels that the preamp can send or receive on . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I meddle with no tradesmen 's matters nor women 's matters but with the awl . |
| 8 | I meddle with no tradesmen 's matters nor women 's matters but with the awl . |
| 9 | I meddle with no tradesmen 's matters nor women 's matters but with the awl . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | Well , he had alluded to Adam 's appearance but in a genial way . |
| 12 | I was most comfortable using the previous day 's shuffle but with an added stoop . |
| 13 | An example from the late-18th century is shaped like a fox 's head but with a swan 's or duck 's head as the handle . |
| 14 | The whole operation of recognizing the bravery of the Italians who had helped prisoners-of-war turned out to be an utter disaster , not only in Eric 's area but throughout the country . |
| 15 | " Conversations with a Gorilla " is not the title of a children 's fairy-tale but of a supposedly scientific contribution to the National Geographic Magazine . |
| 16 | Adoption workers need to accommodate in their thinking and practice more than one concept simultaneously , that is , the achievement of ‘ open ’ adoption or adoption with contact where it is in a child 's interests but within a framework of legal security . |
| 17 | They are probably at ease not only with women 's tears but with a range of private feelings and needs for dependency and intimacy . |
| 18 | Bonfires are built not in people 's backyards but on the streets outside their doors . |
| 19 | In other instances the consolidator provides a master air waybill that indicates the first airline by inserting that airline 's stamp accompanied by a mention of the consolidator 's agency but without an indicating of the flight number . |
| 20 | As he put the glass to his lips to wash out the thought , his eye caught the soldierly portraits all around , the Divisional insignia above the mantelpiece , the roll of battle honours flanking them on each side , and he had a sudden vision of the mess walls decorated not with these trumpery monuments to man 's stupidity but with the torn and mangled limbs of countless unfortunates and , in the place of honour , Corporal Byford 's shattered , still bleeding leg . |
| 21 | Gilbert Forbes , still in his butler 's costume but without the tail coat and his toupee , was standing at the back of the group , his bald head pallid above his painted face . |
| 22 | Unlike the previous exhibitions in the series , this is the first devoted not to a royal court 's culture but to a culture based on a city 's commercial strength . |
| 23 | And re-reading the preface today , one is struck not by Shaw 's obscurantism but by the reasonableness of his remarks concerning specific aetiology and the relative significance of pathogens and social conditions as causes of infectious disease . |
| 24 | The second half continued as a fast end to end game until , with two minutes left , Zoe Hillyard shot at the Mutineers 's goal but with the ball taking a huge deflection and looping over the Mutineers goalkeeper 's paddle and into the net . |
| 25 | This writer remembers one Good Friday sermon in an Anglican parish church in which the preacher referred to the crucifixion not as the self-offering of God 's only Son and an event unique in man 's history but as an example of the ‘ little man ’ being maltreated by the all-powerful state . |
| 26 | Their coherence broken and morale likewise , outnumbered and with the rest of the Scots now rallying to exploit the new situation , a tight group at the centre of the company formed their own small wedge and spurred from inactive watching to furious activity — not towards Ramsay 's threat but in the opposite direction . |
| 27 | Dexter was used to the superintendent 's mannerisms but after a second or two , Blanche caught Jane Pargeter 's look of puzzlement , and the detective smiled apologetically . |
| 28 | He did not look into Gabriel 's face but into the yeoman 's . |
| 29 | This is evident not just in the personalised PWL number plates on the directors ' cars but in the results . |
| 30 | Victory , perhaps to their own surprise , now seemed almost within the invaders ' grasp but at a Council of War , held at the prince 's headquarters in Exeter House , Derby , on the morning of Thursday 5 December , Lord George Murray , whose tactics so far had been masterly , astounded his fellow-commanders by remarking that ‘ the first thing to be spoken of was how far it was prudent to advance further ’ . |