Example sentences of "a [adj] but [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And just back to football , the South Midland premier division ; Thame United retain their lead at the top of the table with a narrow but in the end , comfortable victory at Langford this afternoon . |
| 2 | ‘ We are aiming not at the elaboration of a few but at the erection of many temples or houses of our Lord ’ and therefore ‘ cheapness in the construction of each is indispensable to success ’ and Gothic chapels need not be expensive . |
| 3 | When the Newcastle goalkeeper rose to his feet after treatment , Mr Jones chose to re-start play not with a free-kick but with a drop-ball inside the penalty area . |
| 4 | The Playboys , written by Shane Connaughton who scripted My Left Foot , is a slow-burner but worth the wait as Finney 's emotions are fanned to such a fervour that we suspect he is going to do something regrettable . |
| 5 | But resemblance can not explain how a thinker could experience one object as standing for another ; for how could the fact that a particular datum is similar to other things mean anything to a thinker unless he experienced it as being like many others — that is , unless he grasped it , not just as a particular but as an instance of a kind ? |
| 6 | if the return to Conservatism is to be something more than the transient apparition of a spectre from the past , and its voice in national affairs not merely to be a sepulchral warning against the dangers of rash courses , the Conservative leaders must bestir themselves to some purpose … [ the Conservative Party ] must be ready to meet the programme of the Labour Party not simply with a non-possumus but with an alternative which will in some measure satisfy certain of the needs which Labour is concerned to satisfy , and at the same time avoid the perils with which it insists Labour policy is beset . |
| 7 | Its difficult to go beyond normal scepticism and see this huge number not just as a potential but as a reality . ’ |
| 8 | It is obviously important that we should have some clear idea about the nature of the phenomenon as an aspect of language not just as a preliminary but as a prerequisite for determining how it should figure in pedagogy . |
| 9 | Direction is determined not by an objective but by the nature of the organisation and the field in which it operates . |