Example sentences of "[noun] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | This indicates that somatostatin — and probably also octreotide — has no direct effect on the gall bladder but exerts its inhibitory action by the myenteric plexus . |
| 2 | Henceforth , as a result of the Prince 's action at Strasbourg , this cosy doctrine was threatened by a recrudescence of popular Bonapartism in which the key figure was not the dead Napoleon but the living Louis-Napoleon , who was offering a political alternative to the existing system . |
| 3 | This , however , gives rise to two legends : firstly that it was paid for by Napoleon in gold louis to Mr Veitch , who later buried the coins under the foundation stone of the English church ; and secondly that the wine was never drunk by Napoleon but returned to Madeira after his death to be bottled in 1840 by Blandy 's . |
| 4 | The best on road type is the XC type 4 as fitted on 110 vehicles , for more off road use the XCL offers good on and off road manners but is a directional tread pattern and has to be fitted the correct way round . |
| 5 | In Nana 's opinion this was not only a common occupation which gave a woman vulgar , loud manners but it was also bad for trade . |
| 6 | He says I do n't think we should go back to Victorian manners but people should be more considerate . |
| 7 | All this was perhaps an inevitable reaction by a new generation to the old creed of individualism and laissez faire which G. W. E. Russell , a Liberal MP and High Churchman , denounced in a Manchester Guardian article at the turn of the century as ‘ this intellectual but unmoral theory ’ . |
| 8 | It will be a generation or two no doubt before this determinedly old-fashioned room acknowledges one of the most remarkable of post-1945 French writers , the critic Roland Barthes , who was the complete Parisian intellectual but was brought up in the Basque country , went to school in Bayonne and all his life kept his house along the Adour , at tire . |
| 9 | first , some peripheral areas were excluded from the new Greater London area ( see Map 2. 1 ) ; second , the number of boroughs was reduced to thirty-two ( plus the City of London which received the responsibilities of a borough but retained its own status ) ( see Table 2. 1 ) ; third , education became the responsibility of a new ad hoc body in Inner London and the enlarged boroughs in Outer London . |
| 10 | Voting in the elections started in mid-May but was postponed after the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi by Tamil separatists while addressing a rally in Tamil Nadu [ see p. 38175 ] . |
| 11 | Draw they did , but goallessly , a result that did nothing for Maidenhead but lifted Cambridge to sixth place , writes Pat Rowley . |
| 12 | Draw they did , but goallessly , a result that did nothing for Maidenhead but lifted Cambridge to sixth place , writes Pat Rowley . |
| 13 | ‘ He began an investigation after complaints from local residents and visited the premises at Maidenhead but , in the traditions of The People , he then made his excuses and left . ’ |
| 14 | They are thus not simply a mentality derived from popular religion but from a traditional Roman catholicism which held sway in catholic Europe from the post-Reformation period and remained unchallenged until the 1960s . |
| 15 | This means that only groups identifiable by their religion but not race , or national origins etc. , are not protected by the Act . |
| 16 | Note the more overt reference to religion but careful avoidance of Jesus Christ which is rather too religious a term . |
| 17 | Although the more bigoted supporters resented his corrosive friendship , the blue and the green frequently enjoyed nights out at Hampden Bowling Alley divided in the minds of Glasgow by religion but united in their common interest in Bacardi and blondes . |
| 18 | In my opinion , working to ensure that your family is well fed is good religion but I remember how careful Dad was about his Good Friday movements . |
| 19 | This applies not only to the Christian religion but to all others as well . |
| 20 | They are ‘ conservatives doing socialist art ’ , they abhor organised religion but are ‘ the most Christian of contemporary artists ’ ; they are for the people , but not of them ; reactionary and radical ; sacred and profane . |
| 21 | His parents had neglected this aspect of his upbringing , having largely abandoned their religion but for a few outer forms before he was born . |
| 22 | As a result history is driven not by ideas and religion but by the economic basis of our culture . |
| 23 | ( This is how the story is recorded in Luke 13:6–9 , where the fig tree stood for the self-righteous people , such as the Pharisees , who made a great show of their religion but produced few results . |
| 24 | There are , of course , differences between science and religion but they are institutional differences in the kinds of rule which govern ‘ how to go on ’ . |
| 25 | To suggest that the struggle was not between science and religion but over cultural leadership may expel the conflict through the front door , but it still returns through the back . |
| 26 | There are some , he continued , ‘ so deranged , not only in religion but who in all things reveal their monstrous nature , that they will say that the sun does not move , and that it is the earth which shifts and turns . ’ |
| 27 | Women were defined not only by convention and religion but by ineffective birth control , fear of venereal disease , and by sexual ignorance , which not surprisingly , the physician and lecturer , Sir James Paget , found to be ‘ very common among well educated women ’ . |
| 28 | These are not wars of religion but conflicts between communities which have different religions ; no side tries to convert the other . |
| 29 | Tobiah was a Jew by religion but had his own temple on his own land — and nobody seems to have questioned his orthodoxy . |
| 30 | In fact , the struggle was longer , on a greater scale , and with an outcome very different from that anticipated ; so that , as far as Eliot was concerned , the task , as his Notes towards the Definition of Culture ( 1948 ) made clear , was not merely that of rescuing the Christian religion but of salvaging culture itself . |