Example sentences of "a [adj] but [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They were trying to back it into a stable but the magnificent beast was all set to charge . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | Sustaining not just a home-owning but a capital-owning democracy is crucial to our vision for the 1990s . |
| 7 | The letter may well be a fake but the worrying fact is that it proves there is a dirty tricks campaign designed to blacken the name of the Princess . |
| 8 | Using a round-ended knife , stir in the milk to make a soft but no sticky dough . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | For individual A , her own income is a good but the other person 's income is a bad , reflecting the presence of malice towards B. ( Envy is increasing marginal disutility of the other person 's income . ) |
| 11 | Higher expectations and effective post-school education for those who have received special education in school is not a luxury but an economic necessity . |
| 12 | ‘ As you know , Sally , he 's no great shakes as a shot-maker but a wonderful putter — he has a great feel . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Formal observation techniques and equipment are designed to reduce this discrepancy to a minimum but the nursing process depends on much more than can be obtained by this means ; therefore it is important for the teacher to have some understanding of the factors that affect the formation of percepts so that she can help the nurse to make accurate judgements where these are possible and to be sufficiently receptive and mentally flexible to consider more than one possible judgement as basis for action . |
| 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 . |