Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] but a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This lasted but a little while , for those on the fringes , both forward and aft , drew off as soon as they had room and control , and sought firmer ground and more elbow-room . |
| 2 | So strong can these commitments become that teachers not only come to feel diffident about teaching and reluctant to teach subjects very different from their own , like religious education or personal and social education , which would be likely to form but a minor part of their timetable commitment , but some teachers may even feel reluctant to teach subjects that would appear to have a fairly close cognate intellectual relationship to their own — as when physicists are asked to teach chemistry or integrated sciences , for instance . |
| 3 | One retired Somerset man told a visiting kinsman , ‘ You are likely to have but a short feast here , but I pray you if you have not good cheer blame my sonne John Webb and not me , for of my troth I have made him master of all . ’ |
| 4 | By the time the crème brulée was served , she realized that James was n't the gentle , sensitive , vulnerable charmer that she had first imagined but a crashing bore . |
| 5 | If you want to add a drive of the same make but a different size you probably wo n't have any problems . |