Example sentences of "man but a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently , for the ‘ exclusively heterosexual ’ X , homosexuality is not a submitting to another man but a competition with , a displacing of , him . |
| 2 | Good victuals and ale to any man but a slave master . |
| 3 | Director said , ‘ My first man into Athens , a young man but a good friend of Lawrence 's , has promised the widow that we 'd go for the jugular on this one . ’ |
| 4 | On the other hand , if a mature woman is sexually assaulted by a stranger in daylight or at home , then she has not been raped by a man but a monster . |
| 5 | On another occasion he declared that marriage was a partnership where his wife was not simply marrying the man but a way of life . |
| 6 | On the other hand , in the eyes of even the most loyal ministers and the foremost grand dukes and prelates , he was no holy man but a charlatan whose doctrine of ‘ redemption by sin ’ was but a thin veil for crude depravity . |
| 7 | To watch him was to watch not a man but a directing force ; was to witness the channelling of aggression and determination into its most elegant and expressive form . |
| 8 | A bad man but a brilliant poet . |