Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] but a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were excused few , if any , tasks , Hannah may appear to be a frail pensioner but a lifetime 's exposure to the hard labour of rural life enables her to endure the most extreme elements far better than urban-reared people half her age . |
| 2 | To take an example , a person taking a lien on subfreights is not affected by the register since this is not a registrable charge but a person taking a floating charge would be . |
| 3 | One , apprenticed to a shoe maker , recalled not a cruel master but a mistress who turned him into a household drudge . |
| 4 | We argued that the sickness or crisis of capitalism was not at heart a technical matter but a lack of legitimacy with respect to the system itself . |
| 5 | And not a technical matter but a policy matter , I think that the probabilities of it doing that could be er increased by traffic calming measures on the A sixty one to make it take longer to go through Harrogate that way . |
| 6 | He holds not only a gutted Diamond-back but a pose ordained as well as caught by the photographer . |
| 7 | He wore a blue suit of safari cut , a non-military colour but a safari-suit nonetheless . |
| 8 | For a boatman whose home was on the river , the pub was not only a social centre but a base where goods could be left , messages collected and horses stabled . |
| 9 | It was quite a shock to learn that the Elsie found at the bottom of Loch Craig was not a twenty-six-year-old woman but a woman in her late fifties or early sixties . |
| 10 | Not surprisingly , Muslim scholars see in sixteenth-century Europe not a scientific renaissance but a reactivation . |
| 11 | This I knew was not a sexual invitation but a protection against the evil eye . |
| 12 | Its production is not a once-and-for-all process but a tool in its own right , complementing the many other processes that contribute to the Museum 's development . |
| 13 | It contains not only a personal element but a property element . |
| 14 | Sharman ( 1989 ) adopts the same stance as Sampson on this issue , believing that the question of the acceptability of a sentence is not a black-or-white judgement but a gradation of likelihoods . |
| 15 | interpretation is not a pure skill but a discipline deeply dependent on knowledge . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , Scholes is right to say that ‘ interpretation is not a pure skill but a discipline deeply dependent on knowledge ’ ; as much was conceded by Richards in Practical Criticism , a fundamental text of the New Criticism , when he acknowledged that those who had not already read enough poetry would read poems badly . |
| 17 | The distinctive breakthrough of the great classification makers of the later nineteenth century was in response to a new need : books on all subjects proliferated , and unpredictably , so in Dewey 's scheme , for instance , the classification number did not represent a fixed shelf but a subject 's position within a sequence . |
| 18 | She was n't a real aunt but a courtesy one , the widow of a former colonial service administrator and a friend of Meredith 's late parents . |
| 19 | Lecturers at women 's clubs and citizens ' organisations cautioned that the fly was no longer a welcome guest but a carrier of dangerous germs . |
| 20 | His gingerish stubble I imagined was not a natural growth but a product of choleric distemper . |
| 21 | Using the term ‘ dialectic ’ means that the process of movement which characterizes human history is not a smooth development but a development caused by conflicts and contradictions which lead to temporary resolutions , like two people arguing with each other . |
| 22 | This theory conforms with the concept of technology building on technology , where progress is not a random process but a synthesis of what has gone before . |
| 23 | Looking cheerful and attractive was no longer a domestic issue but a matter of vital national importance . |
| 24 | Springing was provided only on the bolsters and above the axle boxes giving a comfortable ride but a tendency to roll . |
| 25 | When the figure looked up the boy was impressed by bright , blue eyes and a long nose but a kind expression . |
| 26 | Hypnotherapy is not a God-given gift but a skill which is learnt — although some people have more of an aptitude for it than others . |
| 27 | Neither my sister nor I can remember exactly what we had for dinner , but we chose not merely a good cheese but a claret of which we hoped he would approve . |
| 28 | She did not know what the message was : Lee in this state was no longer a lovelorn friend but a trauma . |
| 29 | At last weekend 's ICA conference on screen censorship and sexuality , even Gus Van Sant 's experimental My Own Private Idaho , which stars River Phoenix as a gay rent boy and Keanu Reeves as his slumming bisexual friend , was condemned by one speaker as ‘ not a queer movie but a chance for straight actors to prove how lib-eral they are ’ . |
| 30 | Hornblower is not a romantic hero but a hero in spite of himself . |