Example sentences of "[art] [adj] but a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The summer timetable saw very little change at the Western end of the Cambrian but a notable addition was an 07:00 Newtown to Birmingham service each weekday using stock and crews brought out a a passenger service from Salop . |
| 2 | They looked lovely on the mantelpiece in the flat but a new bouquet would not go astray at this stage . |
| 3 | There 's a conscious rejection of the sonic values of the '80s but a bright-eyed optimism about the 1990s . |
| 4 | No two BOT schemes are likely to be the same but a special purpose company is usually formed to enter into the principal contracts and loan agreements . |
| 5 | This ‘ embarrassment ’ already identified by Christopher Ricks in connection with Keats ' poetic references to women , was not an evasion of the sensual but a deliberate avoidance of direct reference , a coyness that actually intensified erotic readings and one which may be said to dominate British sculpture during the period 1880–1910 , particularly in its representations of women . |
| 6 | So what I 'm saying to you is , do n't go in over the top , you know , five , just a normal but a firm handshake because a man would expect it because a weak ha ha handshake can be irritating and the same thing if she is a woman |
| 7 | Nevertheless , if we say not ‘ dog ’ but ‘ My — dog-Rover-with — the — white — spots- and — the-stumpy-tail ’ , there can be no doubt that we intend not only a specific but a unique reference . |
| 8 | On the present analysis , moving to the viewpoints of other persons is not in itself a moral act , any more than is temporal viewpoint-shifting , so that a reduced capacity for either is not a moral but a cognitive defect . |
| 9 | To ‘ put myself in your place ’ , to ‘ see your point of view ’ and ‘ understand how you feel ’ , is not a moral but a cognitive act , but of what sort ? |
| 10 | Sustaining not just a home-owning but a capital-owning democracy is crucial to our vision for the 1990s . |
| 11 | Sir William Petty , writing at the end of the seventeenth century , argued that excessive morbidity and mortality rates were not only a human but an economic tragedy . |
| 12 | Higher expectations and effective post-school education for those who have received special education in school is not a luxury but an economic necessity . |
| 13 | ‘ As you know , Sally , he 's no great shakes as a shot-maker but a wonderful putter — he has a great feel . |
| 14 | Erm the being nineteen fifty er preserving , this is a quote , preserving a rich peasant economy is of course not a temporary but a long term policy . |
| 15 | This , then , is not a static but a dynamic view of early English prosodies ; its theoretical breadth and scope is wide , and its empirical procedures sound ; it is innovative and challenging ; and it also forms a vital teaching text . |
| 16 | This study also introduced a different test task using not a successive but a simultaneous discrimination in which the subjects had to choose ( for the reward of a marble ) one of the two faces . |
| 17 | At the same time it needs to be increasingly alert and responsive to changing circumstances in not merely a local but a global context . |
| 18 | This is not a capitalistic but an historical phenomenon . ’ |
| 19 | So international agreement and co-operation is in this field not merely an ideal but a practical necessity for effective justice . |
| 20 | He sees too that the other should from the first have known better , as he himself should ( he has come to understand that in retrospect ) , and therefore judges that they both made not only an unlucky but a bad choice . |
| 21 | De Lattre , it seems , had himself in mind as a Supreme Allied Commander for Southeast Asia and his proposals for a joint intelligence operation together with a strategic reserve of six or eight divisions would , if it had come to anything , have meant not only an American but a British commitment to French fortunes in Indo-China . |