Example sentences of "but [prep] [art] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do not remember them for all the facts which they rammed into our heads , nor for praise or punishment , but for the way that they seemed to recognize our inner selves , and spoke to our essence . |
| 2 | But for the way we actually use and pronounce our English language . |
| 3 | It is about gaining an understanding , not only of a specific project , but about the way your company works . |
| 4 | He said that it is not about additionality , but about the way that the Government are targeting the money . |
| 5 | Mr Montagu and Mr Brown believe getting staff not to fear the agency process as a bringer of cuts or worse conditions , but as a way of improving both and service to the customer , is the crucial task facing ministers and senior officials between now and spring 1991 . |
| 6 | To achieve changes , he suggests selling it not as an end in itself , but as a way to make money . |
| 7 | Two centuries later , the Enlightenment returns : but not at all as a way for the West to take cognizance of its present possibilities and of the liberties to which it can have access , but as a way of interrogating it on its limits and on the powers which it has abused . |
| 8 | Older , and more knowing , Virgin hands , seasoned veterans of countless swimming-pool duckings , kept their distance ; but as a way of fostering a sense of belonging among staff these outings proved a powerful catalyst . |
| 9 | Boring , repetitive or even hazardous employment may still be acceptable to capitalist morality : the job is done not out of interest but as a way of earning money , not out of loyalty , but a fear of redundancy . |
| 10 | The sentencers have used the new powers , not to reduce the numbers being sent to prison , but as a way of substituting a tougher penalty for petty offenders . |
| 11 | The investors do not perceive the warranties as providing them with a course of action , but as a way for management to confirm the business plan and the facts of the accountants ' report ; and provide as much information as possible about the business to be purchased . |
| 12 | ‘ I wanted to , but after the way we parted last time I did n't dare . ’ |
| 13 | You have a soul locked in — able to be in touch with the outside world , but with no way of communicating with it . ’ |
| 14 | Capital therefore provides us not just with a view of the economy , but with a way of analysing the structure and development of a whole society . |
| 15 | They do not learn effectively from the written word ; and listening to children reading aloud will invariably uncover a whole spectrum of difficulties concerned not only with vocabulary but with the ways in which words are strung together and the ways in which , even in straightforward narrative or information text , sentences cohere and relate . |
| 16 | But along the way Alice Thomas Ellis creates an ironic and vivid portrait of London , brilliantly catching its degradation and waste . |
| 17 | We trace Alfred 's life back in order to find the origin of his dishonesty , but along the way we come across many peculiar situations before we know what brought them about . |
| 18 | But along the way most activists realized the futility of trying to struggle with no funds and impossible odds . |
| 19 | But along the way it had all got fouled up . |
| 20 | The cliches may well be deliberate , but in a way this only makes them even more tiresome . |
| 21 | The difference is that Orton 's pastiche is comic but in a way which interrogates rather than presupposes the norm . |
| 22 | After years he had lost his oldest and best friend but in a way he had always despised friendship ; families were what mattered , more particularly that larger version of himself — his family ; and while seated in the same scheming fury he saw each individual member gradually slipping away out of his reach . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | We witness the protagonists drawing their own parallels between their story and Homer , Byron 's ‘ Manfred ’ , Poe and thrillers , but in a way which suggests that the act of narrating is not separated from events . |
| 25 | But in a way I think this may be a defence mechanism . |
| 26 | But in a way what we have is more exhilarating because this is new ground we are breaking . |
| 27 | But in a way she dominates me more now than when I was young . |
| 28 | It 's more of a noise than a sound sometimes , but in a way it 's how a proper bass should sound . |
| 29 | ‘ It was really good and really exciting but in a way it was also like a flashback to 1983 or something , because I still wanted to do completely different songs to everyone else ! |
| 30 | But in a way , the criticism spurred me on . |