Example sentences of "[noun] but [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | His parents had neglected this aspect of his upbringing , having largely abandoned their religion but for a few outer forms before he was born . |
| 2 | They are thus not simply a mentality derived from popular religion but from a traditional Roman catholicism which held sway in catholic Europe from the post-Reformation period and remained unchallenged until the 1960s . |
| 3 | She had seen it there not in terrible isolation but as a part , a vital part , of a larger pattern — one that pointed the way towards completion of her task . |
| 4 | We may be handling a horse and get a feeling that we are in tune with the horse and that it is accepting and even anticipating whatever we want to do : we are in rapport with the horse , and are communicating with the horse but in a way that is not through the other senses . |
| 5 | In 844 Kenneth MacAlpin , a Dalriadic Scot on his father 's side but with a mother of Pictish royal blood , became king of both the Picts and the Scots . |
| 6 | The feel of a book in her hands was an ancient solace — not , originally , because of what lay between the covers but as a screen , a defence , a shield . |
| 7 | The Netherlands views itself not only as a trader and distributor of LPG but as a major user . |
| 8 | One of the more important of these was the quota sample , an attempt to approximate to random sampling methods but in a way that minimised the practical difficulties often involved in selecting and contacting respondents , so offering considerable advantages in cost and convenience . |
| 9 | At the request of the salon 's owner they met the girls not at the salon but in a hotel nearby . |
| 10 | He too received his higher education not in the metropole but in a newly-founded colonial college , thus opening up horizons which previously would have been closed to Indonesians like him . |
| 11 | People buy computers or computer-controlled products not just for offices but for a host of other places such as factories and homes . |
| 12 | The room was twice the size of their back-street Holland Park offices but for a couple of hours all comers were invited to believe that Women 's Word was on the same financial footing as its big competitors . |
| 13 | Ultrasonic waves are sound waves but of a higher frequency ( pitch ) than the human ear can hear . |
| 14 | He saw human beings not as a mass of contradictions but as a particular sort of person — a great nobleman or a poor scholar or a spotty-faced announcer from the BBC . |
| 15 | These lovely plants may take time to form large flowering clumps but after a few years are a sight to behold and are worth every bit of effort you expend . |
| 16 | He saw them not as a party of racial obsession but as a right-wing ginger group to keep the Conservative party on the proper lines . |
| 17 | Some magnetic mounts could be done in order to fully utilise all available units but with a larger proportion of the work going to the faster unit . |
| 18 | The Karen I had known a few months earlier , a simple , straightforward creature with healthy appetites , had been metamorphosed by my spells into a raving obsessive who regarded the spawning of offspring not as a lowest-common-denominator activity like excretion but as a moral and creative achievement on a par with , say , painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling . |
| 19 | They did work in er two worked in two different quarries but within a week or a fortnight that young lad approached one of our members and said he 's sorry that he 'd ever gone back and I said to him well come back and join us and forget it all . |
| 20 | I carried on with the Debenham players getting small parts almost every year in the pantomimes , they were n't major acting roles but for a nine , ten , eleven year old child they sufficed . |
| 21 | A good course programme but with a poor instructor led to more trainee dissatisfaction than a good instructor with a moderate programme . |
| 22 | I speak not as a lawyer but as a politician . |
| 23 | It may be questioned whether such elaborate surveillance ( engaged in not only by the KGB but to a greater or lesser extent by other security organizations ) is really necessary or produces results commensurate with the time , energy and expense involved in the operations . |
| 24 | In recent weeks , I have had the opportunity of discussing the matter not only in the United States but with a number of colleagues in the European Community . |
| 25 | That the triumphing of the wicked is short , and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment ? … |
| 26 | Then , as soon as they were given access to each other , and also to the small molecules needed as raw materials , in water , both got back to their old tricks even though they were no longer in a living cell but in a test tube . |
| 27 | Nigel Terry plays him most intelligently , not just as a mercenary hit-man but as a soft-spoken scholar obsessed by mortality . |
| 28 | Men with a low body mass index in later life were relatively protected against the susceptibility to glucose intolerance stemming from their low birth weights , while 17% of those of low birth weight but with a high body mass index later in life were frankly diabetic . |
| 29 | What we can say , though , is that the picture which emerges from these is not of a monolithic bloc but of a constantly mutating organism made up of elements which are symbiotic and mutually contradictory at the same time ( see , for example , Sanjek 1988 ; Hirsch 1969 ; Peterson and Berger 1971 ; Hardy n.d. ; Frith 1978 ; 1983a ; 1988a ) . |
| 30 | The Japanese will be offered greater access to Europe , on condition that they open their domestic markets — not only for cars but for a whole range of industrial and service sectors — to European businessmen . |