Example sentences of "but [adv] [prep] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aboriginals , it was true , could not imagine territory as a block of land hemmed in by frontiers : but rather as an interlocking network of " lines " or " ways through " . |
| 2 | If the unconscious means anything whatsoever , it is that the relation of self and others , inner and outer , can not be grasped as an interval between Polar and opposites but rather as an irreducible dislocation of the subject in which the other inhabits the self as its condition of possibility . |
| 3 | The alternative view sees constitutions not as a conscious creation but rather as an evolutionary consequence made up of ‘ substantive principles to be deduced from a nation 's actual institutions and their development ’ ( McIlwain , ibid . ) . |
| 4 | Worried staff at the centre called in the police , who instructed Mrs Duncan to make her speech not in front of the centre but rather in an unobtrusive site on another street 175 yards away . |
| 5 | In the Soviet Union successions to the general secretaryship after Stalin were achieved in a relatively orderly fashion but entirely as an internal party matter with no element of public choice . |
| 6 | The questions which arise in aircraft accident investigation usually relate to the boundaries of radio technology — things such as trying to establish the radio propagation conditions in which some phenomenon or other gives rise to a kink in an instrument landing system localiser or glide slope but only on an intermittent basis , or the reliability of a radio altimeter in an auto-land system during an approach over surfaces with greatly differing radio reflecting characteristics . |
| 7 | Private companies can now get rid of the requirement for member involvement , but only by an elective resolution under s 379A . |
| 8 | The first session of the Consultative Council ( announced in November 1990 — see p. 37873 ) opened on Jan. 5 , when its Speaker Sheikh Abdullah bin Ali al-Qatabi said that the council heralded a new era of joint national action ; the 59-member council would draft policy proposals for economic and social legislation but only in an advisory capacity . |
| 9 | It accepted Mr Yanaev as vice-president ( but only after an embarrassing failure in the first vote and some heavyweight intervention by Mr Gorbachev ) . |
| 10 | Many societies have been conserving the environment perfectly well for millennia , and have integrated conservation into cultivation practices , but not as an explicit programme . |
| 11 | You want to stand out in the assessor 's mind but not as an insensitive bully trying to throw your weight around . |
| 12 | Yes , but not on an on-going basis . |
| 13 | This was specific because it was competitively inhibited by peptide 15 but not by an unrelated peptide , peptide 1 ( compare tracks 6 and 5 ) . |
| 14 | This section will be displaced by the adoption of a new partnership agreement but not by an unexecuted draft or by heads of agreement unless their terms have in fact been acted upon or all the partners have agreed to be bound by those terms ( see Walters v Bingham [ 1988 ] 1 FTLR 260 ) . |
| 15 | If a breach of public law also amounts to a breach of the European Convention on Human Rights it may be possible to obtain an award of compensation under the Convention from the European Court of Human Rights , but not from an English Court . |
| 16 | He seemed anxious to please , but not in an unctuous way . |
| 17 | Furthermore , while economic historians might assess in retrospect the effects of excise on levels of consumption , or by implication on the level of savings , customs duties in their own time were never seen solely from the point of view of the revenue but always as an important instrument of economic regulation . |
| 18 | These involved the experimental subject in observing three-dimensional figures on a VDU , and then answering questions about aspects of the figures that were knowable — but hardly at an intuitive level . |
| 19 | As before , Johnson rails against injustice and oppression , but more as an everlasting fact of human existence than as something that might be fought and corrected . |
| 20 | It would be unrealistic therefore to see implementation as an event but more as an ongoing process of experimentation and development . |
| 21 | He was not exactly ill-mannered , Sara decided , but more like an inquisitive child . |
| 22 | They convey a double sense of experience : that of a linear process ; but also of an eternal state of being which informs and transcends it , and which is accessed within the structure of human nature , itself programmed with a restlessness that can be assuaged by nothing less . |
| 23 | In 1839 he succeeded Stephen Rigaud [ q.v. ] as reader in experimental philosophy ( physics ) at Oxford , becoming responsible not only for a well-established course but also for an extensive collection of apparatus with an endowment for its development . |
| 24 | Green candidate , Bill Hughes sees investment in more public transport as not only the key to an improved environment , but also to an improved economy . |
| 25 | Bell has a small but significant place in English architectural history , not only for the strength of his designs but also as an occasional architect coming , unusually , from the mercantile community rather than from the court or the gentry . |
| 26 | This now serves , not only as guest accommodation , but also as an occasional isolation ward , study and music room . |
| 27 | A mirror is an essential piece of furniture — not only for checking your appearance , putting on make up , or straightening your tie — but also as an integral part of the home 's decoration . |
| 28 | He looked at it quite philosophically , seeing poaching as an irritant but also as an inevitable occurrence ; in headhunting , all 's fair in love and war . |
| 29 | From Channel 4 's inception , he has encouraged talents that never previously found a place within the mainstream television , in particular through the workshop movement , but also on an international scale through regular features and documentaries from the Third World . |
| 30 | By 1815 the canals may have been carrying in excess of 10 million tons of coal , not only more cheaply — on average coal prices ( and those of other bulky materials ) fell by between 50 and 70 per cent in larger urban centres with the opening of a canal — but also over an extended reach . |