Example sentences of "but [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tower Hamlets declined to make the repayment and Chetnik applied for judicial review of the adverse decision , unsuccessfully at first instance but successfully in the Court of Appeal and in your Lordships ' House . |
| 2 | This deeper controversy sustains the debate between liberal interpretations of the modern law of contract , but paradoxically at the same time demonstrates its pointlessness . |
| 3 | First published in 1909 , it is used not only by the Library of Congress but widely across the United States ; since the headings are included in USMARC tapes , the list can be consulted wherever in the world MARC tapes are used . |
| 4 | Strenuous laybacking for 40 feet or so brings better holds , allowing exhilaratingly steep bridging , and the whole rope will have run out by the time you pull onto the platform at the top , all too soon for the fit , but thankfully for the tired or those leading at their limit , as I was on this occasion . |
| 5 | These are of several types but predominantly of the circular tumulus design with its stone base and decorative cornice ( 80 and 84 ) . |
| 6 | The man himself , is quite outspoken about past and present , but mostly about the future . |
| 7 | He went into her giant bathroom to take his mind off things and stood there awhile between her mirrors , thinking not particularly of how he looked himself but mostly of the inflections that she had caught from Fred , and also of how it must feel to be this negligently perfect child , who had obviously never in her life spent herself combating a flaw . |
| 8 | Data was collected in 18 states , but mostly in the east of the country . |
| 9 | Over nearly half a century , he was a powerful influence on several aspects of British public life , but mostly behind the scenes . |
| 10 | Their outstanding feature is the conduct of negotiations , not initially through the individual trade unions and employers ' associations themselves but rather via the central confederations to which they are affiliated . |
| 11 | It recognises that the newer and better way to govern the law-breaker is not through the expiring system of the cell and the lash , but rather through the mind and the heart ( Bridgwater , 1909 , p. 9 ) . |
| 12 | Whereas Levinas , like Habermas , posits an authentic language of expression which abhors the distortions of ‘ rhetoric ’ , Derrida argues that such alterity is constituted not through dialogue but rather through the operation of language itself : Levinas ' transcendence-as-surplus is therefore redefined as a Derridean supplement . |
| 13 | ‘ Behind Bars ’ at the new , huge , non-profit Threadwaxing Space on Broadway is not as you might suspect a show of political art about prisoners ' rights or even about the exotic lives of cocktail waitresses but rather about the stripe in art . |
| 14 | Yes , life had come , but not as they had dreamed it , as the great liberator from restraint and narrowness , but rather as the great enemy , with which he had to fight , fight as he was still fighting today and must fight until the end , with never the hope of victory ! |
| 15 | With the rise of the fascist menace , the bourgeois educational system was no longer perceived as the site of idealistic mystification , but rather as the site of a political struggle ; a political struggle in which the vast majority of the teaching profession , committed to the idea of cultural enlightenment , were refusing to be silenced , gagged by a bourgeois state progressively more dominated by fascist ideas at a time of deepening political crisis . |
| 16 | Voluntary work was no longer seen as either a stepping stone to bigger and better things or as a part of a women ‘ s mission , but rather as the exclusive province of married women . |
| 17 | Perception is not conceived as a direct grasping of an occurrence here but rather as the means by which the perceiver obtains a resulting impression which may or may not correspond to what actually happened . |
| 18 | Gilbert would probably have done better to base his case not on the child 's moral sense , which was largely that imposed by adults , but rather on the child 's tendency to invest violence with fantasy . |
| 19 | The combined effect of these provisions is that the question of whether or not a child has special educational needs depends not so much on the child 's specific needs considered in isolation , but rather on the appropriateness or otherwise of existing provision . |
| 20 | The practical consequence of the range of laws we have described was that , by 1979 , the freedom to engage in peaceful protest in this country was traditionally dependent not on the law but rather on the benevolent exercise of discretion by those in power . |
| 21 | the explanatory power and potential planning applicability of geographic theory does not depend on the employed and usually specified spatial axioms but rather on the unspecified axioms about individual and group behaviour . |
| 22 | Here the focus is placed not so much upon the continued presence of irrationality , for irrationality after all is simply reason 's own excluded but necessary negative other , but rather on the possibility of other logics being imbricated within reason which might serve to undo its own tendency to domination . |
| 23 | The objection therefore to totalization is not founded on any simple analogy with totalitarianism — though neither can this be excluded — but rather on the implicit violence of ontology itself , in which the same constitutes itself through a form of negativity in relation to the other , producing all knowledge by appropriating and sublating the other within itself . |
| 24 | Waltz contends that Morgenthau and all the other so-called systems theorists were not truly basing their accounts on systems but rather on the capabilities of the units comprising the system . |
| 25 | This element is lacking in another group of cases , where nothing turns on any prior act of the potential defendant but rather on the delivery of the document to the official of the forum state or its publication at some prescribed place . |
| 26 | The system has fairly low specificity ; topics are not included on the usual basis of literary warrant , but rather on the basis of organizational warrant . |
| 27 | He does not dwell on the significance of the Incarnation , but rather on the process by which the individual can , despite partial knowledge and creatureliness , enter into a darkness where nothing is known , yet God is existentially encountered in love . |
| 28 | The film , which starred Huw Garmon in the title role , does not concentrate too heavily on the Black Chair episode , but rather on the character of the man who became a legend throughout Wales in the months after his death . |
| 29 | Recent surveys in the Lake District have shown that the majority of visitors do not come for these ‘ tourist attractions ’ but rather for the fresh air and breathtaking scenery . |
| 30 | I quote the case of my own area of the Wirral , again not because it is unique , but rather for the very opposite reason . |