Example sentences of "but a way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The very philosophy of the Hegelians is therefore not a challenge to society but a way of making such challenge unthinkable . |
| 2 | This is rather like the moment in Lewis 's life when he described philosophy as a subject and Barfield replied that to Plato , philosophy was not a subject but a way . |
| 3 | ‘ It is not sport for sport 's sake , ’ says Mr Hawkins , who is an ex-Harlem-Globetrotter , ‘ but a way of imposing a structure on undisciplined lives : in a sports team they turn up regularly , on time , in uniform , and train hard . |
| 4 | They are not a specific kind of tree , but a way of being a tree ; several unrelated species ( black mangroves , white mangroves , etc ) are involved . |
| 5 | It is not a work or method study exercise , but a way of establishing and monitoring agreed measures of performance , as a basis for determining whether action needs to be taken to bring this performance within desired parameters . |
| 6 | It is not just an effort to raise funds to pay for the continuance of the maypole-raising , but a way of instilling the custom into the children . |
| 7 | The future is not a blank wall to line up against , but a way to be walked . |
| 8 | Or are there no gods in that sense , but a way of life ( Confucianism ) ? |
| 9 | On another occasion he declared that marriage was a partnership where his wife was not simply marrying the man but a way of life . |
| 10 | For the Profitboss help is not only an attitude of mind , but a way of life . |
| 11 | It does not give us answers , but a way of procedure . |
| 12 | A country once dependent on agriculture , as not only a means of income but a way of life , has evolved into a society almost totally structured around urban industry . |
| 13 | But a way had to be found to marry her . |
| 14 | Of course many committees are composed of old chums , but a way of making meetings less forbidding to those outside the circle is to hold them on neutral ground outside members homes . |
| 15 | Lovell is emphatic that it is not a fast-track management programme but a way of offering highly motivated individuals the chance to fully develop themselves in technical , business and behavioural areas . |
| 16 | Now Russo then representative democracy is n't a refinement of democracy to make it appropriate for the modern world , but a way of giving away all the merits of democracy . |
| 17 | First comes the inner experience of a spiritual reality described as a door opening to reveal not only the face of the Beloved but a way of love by which he can be reached ( 15.92 ) . |
| 18 | Viewed in this way , attempts to delimit pragmatics in the ways explored above would make little sense ; pragmatics would not be a component or level of linguistic theory but a way of looking afresh at the data and methods of linguistics . |
| 19 | It is not an accountancy measure but a way of enabling us to put a figure on all the opportunities we miss and all the things we foul up . |