Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] but [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rural areas supplied not only agricultural products but also a considerable proportion of manufacturing output . |
| 2 | I think we need not only a strong parliament but also a strong presidency . ’ |
| 3 | When we introduced lexical stress we found that all content words but only a small proportion of function words were marked for lexical stress , and that the number of word paths was reduced primarily because these function words no longer matched parts of content words . |
| 4 | Up until 1880 it was a typical Nortolk village with no real centre but merely a dispersed pattern of cottages and farmsteads . |
| 5 | He gets annual increases but never a big salary jump , which he would if he were promoted . |
| 6 | This was a famous and magnificent building but only a small , well preserved , portion remains . |
| 7 | When we went ashore , the transport was not always an air-conditioned coach but sometimes a rickety taxi , a horse cab or even a farm trailer hauled by a tractor . |
| 8 | Christians believe that Jesus had not only a human body but also a human mind and spirit . |
| 9 | Crusaders , enjoying their low profile these days but still a major threat for the title , are at home to Newry and will have forward John Cleary available again . |
| 10 | This hairstreak butterfly has achieved the effect by evolving not only a coloured false head but also a radiating black and white pattern on its wings that directs the observer 's eye away from the real head . |
| 11 | Day-trippers and weekend visitors have filled the streets and riverside paths every summer for more than sixty years but only a tiny percentage are aware of the village 's remarkable gastronomic distinction , about which most communities would continually drum up a publicity fanfare . |
| 12 | What intrigues me about that earlier period , especially its drama , is a mode of transgression which finds expression through the inversion and perversion of just those pre-existing categories and structures which its humanist counterpart seeks to transcend , to be liberated from ; a mode of transgression which seeks not an escape from existing structures but rather a subversive reinscription within them , and in the process their dislocation or displacement . |
| 13 | Almost at the same moment an English observer put it more succinctly : " Foreign service may sometimes provide a good stirrup but never a good saddle " . |
| 14 | Indeed , his passionate predilections form the basis of the plot , which is part thriller , part black comedy but also a serious exploration of the price paid for love and lust — if you 're not very careful … |
| 15 | John Bryan was not just Steve 's good friend but also a distant relation . |
| 16 | After that she was installed ante post favourite for next season 's One Thousand Guineas but then a pulled muscle forced her to miss her next outing , the Lowther Stakes at York . |
| 17 | The king , of course , was the chief prize of Poitiers , and Edward intended that the price of his release should be not only a substantial ransom but also a definitive peace with France : the gains of battle needed to be consolidated by a diplomatic success . |
| 18 | Even in the nineteenth century , many hundreds of vessels passed through the Straits each year , most of them small coasting ships but also a good many larger vessels trading between Europe and the East Indies ( Java and Sumatra were at that time prosperous Dutch colonies ) . |
| 19 | Foucault 's gesture , however , marks the radical scope of such an anti-essentialist project which exploits Plato 's admission that there can not only be a good copy but also a bad one ( phantasma ) — characteristic of the secondary representations of the poets . |
| 20 | The search and creation of the sex beast by the popular press is not usually a gross misrepresentation but rather a selective portrayal of specific facts . |
| 21 | Politicians and party activists not only face the normal cut and thrust of political life but also a deadly threat to their lives . |
| 22 | Biggerstaff 's Metro 6R4 suffered a puncture on his first run but even a courageous charge at the second attempt could n't displace Woodside at the top of the list . |
| 23 | And it was done at the convent hospital , where the anaesthetist there , not only gave this gentlemen a general anaesthetic but also a spinal anaesthetic as well . |
| 24 | Such signs of relative forgiveness on the part of the leaders he had persecuted so relentlessly in the past , particularly Deng Xiaoping , offer perhaps the clearest insight into Chen 's career : he had never been a political force in his own right but merely a faithful interpreter and executor of Mao 's will . |
| 25 | It 's not a single canyon but rather a branching series of gorges covering a large tract of land . |
| 26 | Not only are departments prepared for a Tory or Labour minister but also a Liberal Democrat one as well . |
| 27 | Their transnational linkages created new problems but also a new role and function for government ( 1987 : p. 193 ) . |
| 28 | There was a feeling of hopelessness because of the prospect of unemployment facing most of the young people but also a great deal of anger and frenzied organizing arising from this . |
| 29 | At the end of the last Ice Age , some eleven thousand years ago , glaciers stretched across the middle of Europe and African birds had little difficulty in visiting their southern edges where , during the summer , there were rich flushes of insects and other foods but only a small resident population cropping them . |
| 30 | In Yeovil , we have the rare fortune , if that is the word , of having not only the Liberal Democrat leader as the local MP but also a Liberal Democrat council . |