Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] but [adv] a [noun sg] " 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 | Through learning , children acquire not only their parents ' moral code but also a willingness to act in accordance with the rules . |
| 7 | The end results will not only create a higher standard of competence within the company directly related to each person 's individual role but also an enhancement and enrichment of that person 's own development and personal qualification . |
| 8 | A recruit of eighteen years old was unthinkable ; he would become a puissant man but only a runt among his superhuman peers . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ It was a bloody business but eventually a breach was forced in the defences and Bartholomew led us through . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Likewise in ( 36 ) saw evokes not mere visual perception but rather an inference which the speaker has drawn about the character of the people in question on the basis of what he has been able to observe of their behaviour or even of their appearance , and so could be said by someone who had only seen a photograph of them . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He seemed to be in a uniform of some sort , a slightly unconventional get-up but unmistakably an officer . |
| 18 | However , one study has not only shown persistence of enhanced platelet reactivity in response to collagen and sodium arachidonate despite a 1 6-week period of near normal glycaemic control but also an increase in platelet reactivity to ADP ( Jackson et al , 1984 ) . |
| 19 | One method in particular , kriging ( now available as part of the UNIRAS software ) , offers not only a contoured surface but also an estimate of the standard error at any point on the map . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | It says that the wavefunction is not a description of a physical system but simply a description of my knowledge of it . |
| 22 | The latest boardgame to hit the market , Articulate , requires not only general knowledge but also an ability to verbalise . |
| 23 | It is interesting to note that their evolution was a long and gradual one and not such a revolutionary concept but simply an extension of where we are now i.e. in centesimal potency ( 5th edition ) philosophy . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | As the TGAT Report said : ‘ it should be recognised that to record a low level of performance for this reason [ English as a second language ( E2L ) ] would be no reflection on a pupil 's general ability but merely an indication that the pupil needed special help in English language skills . ’ |
| 26 | WORLD recession is blamed for the problems in our own economy but only a minority of people in the country accept that . |
| 27 | They were not quite a secret society but certainly a network , not always trusted , not , indeed , acceptable to some bishops and in some livings . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 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 . |