Example sentences of "but [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What must be accepted at the very basis of any enquiry is that it is not , as Taylor puts it , " a command , as in conventional search strategy , but rather as a description of an area of doubt in which the question is open-ended , negotiable and dynamic . " |
| 2 | The British crown lacked power ; Alexander III of Russia described it as ‘ hardly to be counted as a monarchy , but rather as a Crown by election ’ . |
| 3 | This work shows that gastric acid secretion does not decline as a result of healthy ageing , but rather as a consequence of the development of atrophic changes of the gastric mucosa . |
| 4 | It is not intended as a guide to the relative merits of competing products — Which ? magazine , with its comparative testing reports , fills that role — but rather as a guide to the tools , materials and techniques needed for home plumbing and to the various plumbing jobs around the home , including the installation of central heating . |
| 5 | Thus — and this is a critical point — refusal of consent is seen not as an assertion of will , but rather as a symptom of unsoundness of mind . |
| 6 | Ideally this does not ensue from flagrant compromises in outlook and working methods but rather as a result of being true to real aims and objectives . |
| 7 | Thse observations suggest that HCO 3 - is not absorbed directly but rather as a result of H + secretion via apical Na + /H + exchange . |
| 8 | At the heart of her case lies the claim that the merchant , like the monk , is not generous as a virtue but rather as a matter of " " calculated business policy " " , for the sake of appearing creditworthy : We may creaunce whil we have a name , But goldlees for to be , it is no game . |
| 9 | ‘ Once upon a time I 'd 've made you turn religious , ’ said Constance , and suddenly it occurred to Scarlet that really she was already religious , as anyone who had borne a child must surely be : not in the conventional sense but rather as a passenger on a train would expect someone to be at the controls . |
| 10 | As Beatson has stated , ‘ a system that uses the pragmatic approach is not using the concept of error of law as an organizing principle ’ as such , but rather as a facade behind which to weigh the relative competence of court and agency . |
| 11 | Peterle said that he did not view the planned date of Slovenia 's declaration of independence as the first day of full independence , but rather as a step in a gradual process . |
| 12 | What was overlooked in our discussion of stylistic competence is that our intuitive " placing " of a text depends not on an undifferentiated capacity to compare a text with the norm of the language , but rather on a responsiveness to a set of norms : a norm for spoken conversation , a norm for news reporting , a norm for writing diaries , a norm for historical novels , etc . |
| 13 | Here , it is not doing duty for a use of rhinoceros but rather for a mention of it . |
| 14 | Generally , in looking at style in a text , one is not interested in choices in isolation , but rather at a pattern of choices : something that belongs to the text as a whole . |
| 15 | The man spoke Imperial Gothic with no trace of the local husky accent , but rather with a kind of spooky affectation — almost , thought Jaq , an alien affectation . |
| 16 | Usually , other world religions will be presented separately and in an open-ended approach — neither from a committed stance nor for commitment but rather with a view to fostering respect and understanding of other people 's beliefs and customs . |
| 17 | This term refers not to a single theory but rather to a set of assumptions underlying a particular approach to the study of perception and cognition . |
| 18 | Here the history of such sciences does not consist in the gradual unfolding and emergence of scientific truths , but rather of a history of ‘ veridical discourses ’ . |
| 19 | Many sediments are composed not of one single grain size population , but rather of a combination of sub-populations . |
| 20 | That seems to me to be a very moving description of somebody who is preaching to people , not from any sense of superiority , but rather from a sense of human concern and caring about the people that she is addressing , and this makes the way in which George Eliot writes about her very different from the way in which other methodist preachers have been described either as ranters , erm or as people who are so caught up in what they are saying themselves that the fail to make any pay any attention to the people that they are addressing . |
| 21 | The first clear indication of a real shift in attitude towards the Roman Empire comes not from evidence relating to Euric himself , but rather from a letter of Sidonius discussing the accusations levelled against the prefect of Gaul , Arvandus , in 468 . |
| 22 | Perhaps they were justified in recalling early days in makeshift cinemas and perhaps they had to mingle with the masses as they went in search of Chaplin movies , but they must have been aware that prestigious down-town and suburban theatres were now largely being patronized , not exclusively by a lumpenproletariat , but rather by a mix of social classes and perhaps above all by young people who were moving up the social scale into more respectable occupations . |
| 23 | The first secretary of the Azerbaijan CP committee in the Nakhichevan ASSR , Gaidar Isayev , was removed from office on Jan. 3 , ostensibly on " health grounds " but apparently as a consequence of the border incidents . |
| 24 | You could smell the gas from the coke and ‘ Are you awake there ? ’ and then you might have a little natter with him — but only for a couple of minutes because if the sergeant saw you , you 'd be ‘ on the peg ’ . |
| 25 | The groups play out their scene for themselves in small groups , but only for a couple of minutes . |
| 26 | Robyn found herself hesitating , but only for a fraction of a second . |
| 27 | After another six months I was asked to attend the physiotherapy department for treatment ; this did bring some relief , but only for a matter of hours . |
| 28 | The paupers continued under the care of the churchwardens and overseers of the parishes until the House had been built , but then the directors had powers to apprehend vagrants , single pregnant women , and other malefactors , to admit them , and to set and keep them at work — but only for a maximum of six months . |
| 29 | Sometimes the answer to the question is " Yes , but only for a handful of specialist writers or magazines ' . |
| 30 | Lord Macnaghten in Pemsel did not aspire to a definition , but only to a classification of the then existing case law . |