Example sentences of "but [prep] a [noun sg] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is just fine for taking the patient 's temperature , and assessing its current condition , but for a feel for the long-term overall health of our business the opinions from author 's agents are a better guide . |
| 2 | If calomel is given in cholera it should obviously not be in pills , as Dr Dunstaple suggests , but as a powder for the sake of better diffusion . " |
| 3 | This is the moment when bad theology enters , not — notice this carefully — as a reason for doubt but as a rationale for the doubting which has already been going on . |
| 4 | But as a case for a ‘ radical extension ’ of industrial democracy by means requiring the assumption by unreformed trade unions of rights which had hitherto attached only to ownership , it merits at this point no more than a suspended judgment at best . |
| 5 | I think university just trains you to think and to prove to an employer that you can apply yourself for three years ; perhaps because in the sciences you learn things that will be relevant in your career , but as a training for an individual I do n't think it is any more worthwhile . |
| 6 | The purpose of such an approach would be to demonstrate that the second language has the same potential for use as the first language , encourage learners to draw on their own experience of language by applying familiar procedures to the interpretation of second language use , and so to teach the second language system not as an end in itself but as a resource for the achievement of meaning . |
| 7 | I saw this small sum not as a personal insult but as a gain for the charity I was supporting . |
| 8 | He viewed society not as an aggregate of isolated atoms but as an organism for the realization of common purposes . |
| 9 | There are sufficient inhabitants in Stockport for a good Grammar School , but without a department for the teaching the modern languages the school can be of comparatively little use in a commercial population like that of Stockport . |