Example sentences of "[adj] but as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Governors were kept informed but as a decision of the headteachers rather than as a matter of right . |
| 2 | If it were not for the fact that he was one of the favourites you 'd have been delighted but as a Gold Cup winner I had to feel a bit disappointed . |
| 3 | The first step is to start talking about stress , not as something shameful but as an interesting , understandable and , up to a point , an inevitable accompaniment to high levels of demand and uncertainty . |
| 4 | As a colleague you 're deficient but as a neighbour you 're marvellous . |
| 5 | In this way grammar would not be presented as primary but as a consequence of the achievement of meaning through the modification of lexical items . |
| 6 | In the course of their work , which they characteristically , in the terms of their sector , did not see as collective but as a series of specialist contributions , they intersected and overlapped with other groupings and other classes . |
| 7 | The power of United States federal courts to take evidence in aid of foreign proceedings was first introduced in 1855 but as a result of a series of what are now seen as misunderstandings fell into disuse . |
| 8 | But resemblance can not explain how a thinker could experience one object as standing for another ; for how could the fact that a particular datum is similar to other things mean anything to a thinker unless he experienced it as being like many others — that is , unless he grasped it , not just as a particular but as an instance of a kind ? |
| 9 | I am considered to be fairly outgoing but as a teenager I was painfully shy . |
| 10 | It will not normally be used on its own but as a facing or interlayer in composite materials . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't know what it is about the ‘ 68 but as a Fender Jag it 's got a real thin sound . |
| 12 | It is tempting to think of Rolle not as a mystic but as a charismatic or pentecostal Christian . |
| 13 | Its difficult to go beyond normal scepticism and see this huge number not just as a potential but as a reality . ’ |
| 14 | It is obviously important that we should have some clear idea about the nature of the phenomenon as an aspect of language not just as a preliminary but as a prerequisite for determining how it should figure in pedagogy . |