Example sentences of "but [adv] on [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mortals see only a river or a hill , but somewhere on another plane , these natural objects are fierce , lusty or romantic men and women . |
| 2 | But obviously on those parameters you ca n't have hard and fast rules for each vehicle . |
| 3 | ‘ But only on that side ? ’ |
| 4 | To avoid the prospect of local authorities , whose rate fund becomes overdrawn within a year , from ‘ going bankrupt ’ , the Act provides that authorities concerned may be given permission to borrow temporarily on revenue account , but only on such terms as the Secretary of State may impose . |
| 5 | one of these is that when the two parties separate , the manager continues to take commission for a number of years , but only on those records issued or those songs written during his or her term of office . |
| 6 | Thus Adalbert 's monastic background , so far in geographical distance from the Slav missions ( but not on that account far from people who needed to be taught the basics of Christianity ) , shows pastoral awareness . |
| 7 | And Bell said : ‘ I expected some trouble but not on this scale — they acted like animals . |
| 8 | Tim Webb , of the aerospace union MSF , said : ‘ We suspected the news would be bad — but not on this scale . |
| 9 | I think we 've all grown used to small loasses of fruit and vegetables but not on this scale . |
| 10 | The other places look across the heath as you come up the , the road anywhere , but not on this side . |
| 11 | Poor Charles Bradlaugh , returned time after time by the electors of Northampton was first found by the courts ( on the application of an informer for a penalty ) to be disentitled to affirm ( since , having no religion , he had no religious objection to taking the oath ) ( in Clarke v Bradlaugh ( 1881 ) 7 QBD 38 , reversed but not on this point in Bradlaugh v Clarke ( 1883 ) 8 App Cas 354 ) . |
| 12 | The Lords reversed , but not on this point ( MPC v Wilson [ 1984 ] AC 242 ) . |
| 13 | Some other time , yes , but not on this walk . |
| 14 | Such policies include not only those on social care , where the contribution of informal networks is most obvious , but also on such matters as town planning and housing management , where the implications of sustaining existing networks or encouraging new ones may still not be sufficiently acknowledged . |
| 15 | But also on this site was a church |
| 16 | Therefore , the change in the dividend was dependent not solely on the target layout ratio but also on some adjustment factor . |
| 17 | and so Clement Freud said , not to him but now on this programme this morning , that 's the first time I 've ever been de-grandfathered |
| 18 | But even on this issue , party political differences were not absolute , as Beckerman pointed out . |
| 19 | IB ) , but even on these surfaces grains undergoing saltation rarely reach more than 2 m ( 6 ft ) above the surface . |
| 20 | Journalists do sometimes react against the excesses of newspaper partisanship but even on these occasions it is proprietorial and editorial power that emerges unscathed and victorious . |
| 21 | A couple of times we were attacked by long range German ‘ planes but fortunately on these occasions , they missed us . |
| 22 | But precisely on that account , it is all too easy for the work of the research student to be governed by the interests of the director(s) of the research project . |