Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] but [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Nothing to do with mice or holes but probably a corruption of the Cornish Moweshayl , young women 's river — perhaps where they did their washing . ) |
| 2 | Those may or may not lead to training or jobs but once a person registers for an interview they are taken off the jobless total . |
| 3 | In political systems where there is free electoral competition between political parties for power , ‘ one might expect to find a connection not only between individual papers and parties but also a correspondence , or parallelism , between the range of papers and the range of parties ’ . |
| 4 | At frieze-level there are not triglyphs and metopes but usually a row of small , close-set blocks , dentils , which offer no field for figure-carving . |
| 5 | For while it was happy for the advisory team to devise policies which went into considerable detail about aspects of classroom practice which are surely for schools and teachers to determine , it remained relatively aloof from one area of school life — home-school links-where policy might usefully and helpfully have stipulated not just goals and commitments but also a range of procedures from which schools could choose . |
| 6 | With a slash of knife , the hospital , the prison — he had many names for the school where he was both patient and prisoner but never a pupil — comes slithering into his mind . |
| 7 | The defendants argued , inter alia , that there was no reliance on the seller 's skill and judgment but rather a reliance by the buyer on his own understanding of the manufacturer 's instructions . |