Example sentences of "but by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The access battle which was due to be resolved that violent day in December , was settled in court , but by the blade rather than by the Judge . |
| 2 | From June 1988 until February 1989 interest rates rose by 3.75 percentage points , but a quarter of this cost was borne not by the borrower but by the Exchequer . |
| 3 | Not not by you but by the contact . |
| 4 | It was important for the future of the English republic that Frost was succeeded not by his eldest son , who had become assistant secretary and treasurer for the council 's contingencies , but by the candidate of Oliver St John and Oliver Cromwell , John Thurloe [ qq.v . ] . |
| 5 | For example , there is evidence to suggest that a good deal of communication is achieved not so much by the online assembly of analysed items but by the adaptation of formulaic phrases ( see , for example , Pawley and Syder 1983 ) . |
| 6 | A concordat between Anderson and the horror genre was ruled out not only by Andemson 's fastidiousness , but by the inability of Hammer Studios to provide an environment in which filmmakers with a strongly defined sense of individuality could flourish . |
| 7 | The scale of these stations was dictated not only by the numbers of passengers they had to handle and the imperial power they had to represent , but by the complexity of the Indian railway operation , and the range of facilities that had to be made available to the hierarchic and heterogeneous nature of the passenger traffic . |
| 8 | I 'd made it but by the skin of my teeth . |
| 9 | He houses an eminent surgeon rent free for similar services , paying him handsomely for cures , but by the hour when the patient dies . |
| 10 | Lettings are encouraged , not only by the head and governors , but by the service provided by the caretaker . |
| 11 | The court said that the parties had chosen the manner by which they wished to have their disputes resolved , and that the wording of the clause did not leave any scope for saying that , in so far as that matter was one of law , it was to be determined not by the expert but by the court . |
| 12 | But from Prime Minister to school dinner lady , married women are routinely classified not according to the work they do themselves , but by the work which is done by their husbands . |
| 13 | And maybe they would be cowed not only by the discipline but by the man who wielded it . |
| 14 | For several years she had been almost obsessed by Peter Sebastian , not only by his work , she finally admitted , but by the man himself . |
| 15 | I am not singing ‘ Take my head and my heart and all my bad habits but by the way I 'm sorry that you have to put up with all that but they 're just part of the package you see . ’ |
| 16 | Colin MacCabe 's position was that realism should not be defined by content or by its capacity to mirror reality but by the way in which the text 's organisation functioned to position the spectator/reader . |
| 17 | It begins by understanding a basic biblical concept : life is not ruined by the sins committed against us but by the way we respond to those sins . |
| 18 | Jess was startled , not by the idea , but by the way it was expressed . |
| 19 | Er which you might think that again sounds odd and finicky but by the way note I said between w er er it applies to both ward and division . |
| 20 | I could n't see properly in that light , but by the way he kept his head turned away , I could tell he was blushing . |
| 21 | ( But by the way , do n't look for Michael Palin 's name in this year 's programme , even though he has come to us every ‘ odd ’ year since 1981 . |
| 22 | Another source of distraction is that the initial what-questions ( first and second sentences ) are followed not , as one might expect , by an identification of the thing that inspired Rimbaud and drove him to reach into his soul , but by the pronoun It . |
| 23 | Finally , it has to be admitted that we were strengthened in our resolve not only by the robust advice of our own legal team but by the knowledge that the merger of Dearden Farrow and the loss of the practising name meant that we were not susceptible to concerns in regard to our reputation . |
| 24 | We almost convince ourselves that the music is created not by the orchestra but by the tip of the baton itself , rich sounds oozing out like some exotic genie . |
| 25 | But by the detective novel I mean a book in which the puzzle element is reduced and in which the characters are a good deal more lifelike than those which the blueprint puzzle merchants needed and in which the element of character drawing is given much more weight . |
| 26 | But in practice the pretrial process was often conducted not by an examining magistrate but by the prosecutor or the police . |
| 27 | An opportunity should never be judged by the size of the potential gains but by the likelihood of those gains . |
| 28 | But by the beginning of April with the frost still quite strong , we had another problem to deal with . |
| 29 | Devon had been romping away with the section , but by the beginning of August had seen their lead whittled away , with Oxfordshire emerging as a growing and serious threat to their supremacy , 20 points behind but with two matches in hand . |
| 30 | But by the beginning of May Eliot was safely ensconced : he had a typewriter , desk , table and chair and was looking forward to starting work again . |