Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] but a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The method we used leads to an increase in the computational load but a gain in simplicity . |
| 2 | I could not fail to see that all , men , women and children , wore nothing in the tropical heat but a band — in the case of the women this was quite ornate — around their middles , leaving everything else uncovered . |
| 3 | Ledgered bread failed to catch for the first hour but a switch to three bronze maggot on a size 14 hook presented over the far side found chub to 2 lb 8 oz from peg one . |
| 4 | These doubts were still widely encountered at the time of the 1840 Convention but a debate there and at the 1843 meeting stimulated the search for a reliable supply of free-labour cotton to reduce dependence on the slaveholders of the American South . |
| 5 | At the other end Thompson 's flag kick was headed into the net by Linighan wide of the far post but a linesman had his flag up very early and the effort did not count . |
| 6 | ‘ Are you sure , though , ’ the man continued , desperately , ‘ a fine young woman , rather on the thin side but a lady , no doubting it , and a terrible young scoundrel , a thief of a man who looked as if he should be hanged . ’ |
| 7 | In the latter case the experiment is repeated using the same solvent but a solute of known molar mass . |
| 8 | They believe that the booming export market is not just a temporary product of the recent devaluation but a development that could stick . |
| 9 | The big cat started to swing on to the other tack but a swell caught her bow , slamming her back . |
| 10 | This was also the result in the 1989 election but a number of new SDLP councillors will be replacing familiar faces including William McCorriston who split from the party and ran as Independent SDLP and Annie Gallagher who did not seek re-election despite the fact that she topped the poll in 1989 . |
| 11 | With a total deal value of £960 million the fourth quarter was the strongest , showing an increase of £340 million over the third quarter but a rise of just £20 million over the corresponding period in the previous year . |
| 12 | Care must be taken not to read more than is said into reports from others , particularly since the Regulations exclude access to the original report but a teacher 's use of it may be on the record . |
| 13 | They were excused few , if any , tasks , Hannah may appear to be a frail pensioner but a lifetime 's exposure to the hard labour of rural life enables her to endure the most extreme elements far better than urban-reared people half her age . |
| 14 | To take an example , a person taking a lien on subfreights is not affected by the register since this is not a registrable charge but a person taking a floating charge would be . |
| 15 | One , apprenticed to a shoe maker , recalled not a cruel master but a mistress who turned him into a household drudge . |
| 16 | We argued that the sickness or crisis of capitalism was not at heart a technical matter but a lack of legitimacy with respect to the system itself . |
| 17 | And not a technical matter but a policy matter , I think that the probabilities of it doing that could be er increased by traffic calming measures on the A sixty one to make it take longer to go through Harrogate that way . |
| 18 | He holds not only a gutted Diamond-back but a pose ordained as well as caught by the photographer . |
| 19 | He wore a blue suit of safari cut , a non-military colour but a safari-suit nonetheless . |
| 20 | For a boatman whose home was on the river , the pub was not only a social centre but a base where goods could be left , messages collected and horses stabled . |
| 21 | It was quite a shock to learn that the Elsie found at the bottom of Loch Craig was not a twenty-six-year-old woman but a woman in her late fifties or early sixties . |
| 22 | Not surprisingly , Muslim scholars see in sixteenth-century Europe not a scientific renaissance but a reactivation . |
| 23 | This I knew was not a sexual invitation but a protection against the evil eye . |
| 24 | Its production is not a once-and-for-all process but a tool in its own right , complementing the many other processes that contribute to the Museum 's development . |
| 25 | The closer the Gnostics stood to orthodoxy , the more likely they were to wish to infiltrate the catholic community ; this was especially the case among the Manichees , but they could be detected by their refusal to drink of the eucharistic cup ( since they regarded wine as an invention of the devil ) and to make the sign of the cross ( since to them the suffering of Jesus was no actual event but a symbol for the universal condition of the human race ) . |
| 26 | It contains not only a personal element but a property element . |
| 27 | Sharman ( 1989 ) adopts the same stance as Sampson on this issue , believing that the question of the acceptability of a sentence is not a black-or-white judgement but a gradation of likelihoods . |
| 28 | interpretation is not a pure skill but a discipline deeply dependent on knowledge . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , Scholes is right to say that ‘ interpretation is not a pure skill but a discipline deeply dependent on knowledge ’ ; as much was conceded by Richards in Practical Criticism , a fundamental text of the New Criticism , when he acknowledged that those who had not already read enough poetry would read poems badly . |
| 30 | The distinctive breakthrough of the great classification makers of the later nineteenth century was in response to a new need : books on all subjects proliferated , and unpredictably , so in Dewey 's scheme , for instance , the classification number did not represent a fixed shelf but a subject 's position within a sequence . |