Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] but [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Louise was French and luscious , as every male in the district between the ages of fourteen and eighty-four would testify — most from wishful thinking but quite a number from experience . |
| 2 | It has been argued that the communist utopia is not a scientific prediction but merely a projection of the ‘ wish-images ’ of those who adopt a Marxist position . |
| 3 | Alina smiled , with some confidence but also a lot of apprehension still , and she moved around the table toward the door . |
| 4 | Remarkably , exactly the same pattern was seen with chimpanzee DNA , indicating not only a duplication of ZNF11 genes in this ape but also a conservation of sequence at all four EcoRI sites defined in man . |
| 5 | A similar conception of the role of sociology ( though with a more ‘ radical ’ political orientation ) is held by certain contemporary sociologists who want sociology to be not simply a discipline which analyses and explains social life but rather a vehicle for changing society , a discipline committed to the extensive alteration of existing social structural arrangements . |
| 6 | It is an interesting idea but not a solution to the problem . |
| 7 | Grigson , writing in The Listener , was equally forthright : he found in Minton 's work interesting prose but not a poetry of interpretation . |
| 8 | It will be gravely libellous if he is a drunken driver but not a terrorist . |
| 9 | Through learning , children acquire not only their parents ' moral code but also a willingness to act in accordance with the rules . |
| 10 | Such an alliance was popular with many back benchers:James Hope , lately Chairman of Ways and Means , suggested , ‘ a composite Government but not a coalition . |
| 11 | A recruit of eighteen years old was unthinkable ; he would become a puissant man but only a runt among his superhuman peers . |
| 12 | Lastly , after government , the administration , military and judiciary , a fifth element of the system can be identified which Miliband ( 1969 ) calls the various units of sub-government — in a sense the extension of central government but also a voice of the periphery , and thus a channel of communication between the two . |
| 13 | I had been aware , intellectually , that the background level of irradiation is really quite high ( as I write the clicking of a geiger counter left switched on in an adjacent room reminds me ) but it took the Phywe cloud chamber to make me realise that irradiation is not a separate thing but truly a part of life . |
| 14 | ‘ It was a bloody business but eventually a breach was forced in the defences and Bartholomew led us through . ’ |
| 15 | When it comes to handling the environmental crisis there is undoubted strength but also a flaw in the Western democratic system which has triumphed so dramatically , both ideologically and materially , at the end of the twentieth century : its political and economic well-being depends on growth and the prospect of ever-increasing wealth and improved standards of living . |
| 16 | Can afford a two- or three-bedroom semi-detached house but not a car |
| 17 | In retrospect the decline of the tram in Britain was not so much a response to technological change but more a decision to cut capital investment in public transport . |
| 18 | The importance of the contest was well appreciated by the Unionist Party which sent not only the Prime Minister but also a number of other cabinet ministers to Bannside to canvass for Dr Bolton Minford . |
| 19 | Yeah it 's just a small volume , you 've just got one channel for , yeah currently I 'm in pretty good shape but only a year ago I had a major bypass operation . |
| 20 | John How was a solid good preacher but not a magnet to multitudes . |
| 21 | Lord Oliver described proximity as ‘ no more than a label which embraces not a definable concept but merely a description of circumstances from which , pragmatically , the courts conclude that a duty of care exists ’ . |
| 22 | It says that the wavefunction is not a description of a physical system but simply a description of my knowledge of it . |
| 23 | She went out of one door but then a sheet of flame came down and blocked me , so I had to look for another way out . ’ |
| 24 | WORLD recession is blamed for the problems in our own economy but only a minority of people in the country accept that . |
| 25 | The Helsinki ‘ Final Act ’ was not a binding treaty but rather a series of pledges . |
| 26 | They were not quite a secret society but certainly a network , not always trusted , not , indeed , acceptable to some bishops and in some livings . |
| 27 | It has been suggested that the carved metope was in fact a western idea only later imitated in Greece proper , and that the metopes from the foundations of the Sicyonian Treasury were not from a Sicyonian building but perhaps a Syracusan . |
| 28 | If there was not much coherent intellectual opposition to the left 's proposals , this by no means signified tacit support but rather a belief that the pressure of ‘ realities ’ in government would soon dispel the fancies of opposition . |
| 29 | In Western Europe this was the beginning of the Renaissance and the change from Medievalism to classicism ; in Russia also there was a new era but not a Renaissance . |
| 30 | She agreed to come and I took her first to the more brilliantly decorated one , not knowing that she was not only a very religious woman but also a girl who had been brought up in the strictest kind of convent — no heating , nothing for show . |