Example sentences of "but [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually , the ballet was first given by the University Ballet as Suite , Opus 3 , but for a revival by the Ballet Club he settled on Suite , ‘ Aus Holbergs Zeit ’ ( ‘ from Holberg 's time ’ ) . |
| 2 | From the fading elegance of tree-lined Wood Lane to the Wharf car park is no more than 500 yards for a purposeful crow , but for a motorist on the one-way system it is the better part of a mile . |
| 3 | This requires constant checking which is trivial for a ‘ demo ’ system but for a system with a realistic vocabulary it can be inefficient . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He typifies the marshman 's feudal protest against central authority , together with his longing , not for a new order , but for a return of the old . |
| 6 | The costs of ruling an " empire " were high , but for a time in the 1760s the revenues of northern India were almost self-supporting , with no bullion being exported in 1767 – . |
| 7 | Only period modifications and factory option equipment are allowed , but for an event like the Monte Carlo , reliability is the number one priority , not tweaked , revvy little numbers ! |
| 8 | But for an invitation from the Foreign Office to work for the World Bank in 1968 , his career could have been very different . |
| 9 | In his mid-twenties , he joins Custer ( Richard Mulligan ) , but during an attack on an Indian village he meets Sunshine ( Amy Eccles ) who becomes his wife . |
| 10 | But as a member of the Swindon LETS — or Local Exchange Trading System — she CAN pay with a brand new currency . |
| 11 | The departments either reported to a finance director or planning director on the main board or a planning director positioned just below the main board but as a member of an executive committee . |
| 12 | Schizophrenic speech provides a metaphor for metaphor , and it is in this sense that its use in Out may be understood , not as a valorization of the psychotic condition but as a literalization of the figure . |
| 13 | Mr Ramaphosa said that the prisoners ' release should not be construed as an act of goodwill by Mr de Klerk , but as a reflection of the ‘ dismal ’ failure of ‘ the apartheid regime ’ to emasculate the will of the black majority . |
| 14 | 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 . " |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | SS continues to show labour supply , but as a function of the net wage . |
| 17 | the reproduction now functions as the original , the live performance is measured against the recording , and technical equipment is seen not as an external aid to reproduction but as a characteristic of the musical original , employed as part of the artistic conception ( ibid : 236 ) . |
| 18 | If , instead of acting physically , the adult names the object — ‘ dolly ’ — the child is likely to interpret the vocalisation not only as referring to the object , but as a description of the ‘ doll ’ as an entity ( Ninio and Bruner 1978 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It lives not for itself alone but as a part of a whole . |
| 21 | The tremendous sense of liberation is in seeing this not as an obstacle to faith , a rock of doubt which blocks progress , but as a part of the essence of life itself . |
| 22 | Governors were kept informed but as a decision of the headteachers rather than as a matter of right . |
| 23 | ‘ Publication ’ is increasingly important , not just to secure advancement in an individual academic 's career , but as a sign of an institution 's status . |
| 24 | But as a master of the ‘ sound bite ’ quote he has been surprisingly unconvincing in this campaign . |
| 25 | But as a sufferer of a very severe form of diabetes , 34-year-old Philippa has had to struggle not to let her illness take over her life . |
| 26 | Mr Fraser was , as usual , dark-suited , but as a concession to the occasion he also sported a rose in his lapel . |
| 27 | Later on Bukharin was to present NEP , not as a retreat , but as a return to the early policies of 1918 . |
| 28 | The existence of A level courses may be seen not simply as a useful tool for individual pupils who may want to go further in their education ( or have a certificate to show that they have not left school till they were l8 ) ; but as a measure of the standard of the school itself . |
| 29 | When one complainant alleged that he had been sitting in the Common Bench while the complainant had had his proper challenges to jurors refused , the auditors of complaints simply accepted his statement that he had been sitting on the bench not as a justice but as a well-wisher of the complainant 's opponent ( the prior of Sempringham ) . |
| 30 | There is some ‘ outstanding teaching in most subjects in most institutions , but as a proportion of the total teaching effort the amount is comparatively limited ’ . |