Example sentences of "[adj] but [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Discuss , with reference to at least two plays , how tragedy can be enacted not only upon the individual but also upon a family ’ |
| 2 | DBG Acquired by RBG in 1979 but still without a guidebook . |
| 3 | She seemed to be eased by talking of her daughter , and by the time she stopped , apologetically , and drank some tea poured for her by Catherine , she looked exhausted but less like a wraith . |
| 4 | Whether or not he was altogether comfortable in such a role is another matter ; when Lawrence Durrell once suggested to him that he was not a Christian at all but more like a Buddhist or a primitive he replied only with a question , " Perhaps they have n't found me out yet ? " |
| 5 | The offence is committed not just by a trader who supplies consumer goods that are not reasonably safe but also by a trader who agrees or offers to supply them or exposes or possesses them for supply . |
| 6 | A range of studies have demonstrated the vitality of the parent-child tie , sustained not only by visiting but also by a flow of assistance of various kinds in both directions . |
| 7 | So important is this factor in shaping the evolution of man that Freud , in a number of places in his works , 9 but principally in a footnote to Civilization and its Discontents , comments at length on the way in which the adoption of an erect posture in man produced what he termed an ‘ organic repression ’ which paved the way for civilization . |