Example sentences of "[pron] but a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could tell he was pleased with himself but a bit scared , just like when he used to keep the half-crown Father gave him on Sundays , rather than put it on the collection plate . |
| 2 | In the distant past , when the genetic material was being accumulated that makes mankind what it is , nobody but a warlord lived in a dwelling he could not make himself . |
| 3 | Nobody but a fool who believes his luck lies around the corner could be similarly influenced by the likes of Frankie . |
| 4 | And who but a megalomaniac would want to live on the set for a Hammer horror movie ? ’ |
| 5 | Erm it is I assure you but a fraction of what I 've got . |
| 6 | I 'll throw you to the fucking wolves — are you listening , you stupid fuck ? — and there 'll be nothing left of you but a pile of shit and a hank of hair . |
| 7 | The intermittent , flickering reality that obsesses Gael is , from the Catholic perspective , itself but a delusion . |
| 8 | By definition the gene must promote the reproductive success of the selfish organisms at a cost to itself but a gene for altruism could evolve in a population of selfish individuals a population of altruists , in whom a gene for selfishness appears by random mutation . |
| 9 | They were advised in 1743 : You can not expect to marry in such a manner as neither of you shall have occasion to work , and none but a fool will take a wife whose bread must be earned solely by his labour and who will contribute nothing towards it herself . |
| 10 | Salutations 0 Mighty Apollo ! glad your music tour went down well , playing the fiddle standing on your head while drinking a glass of water is very clever , none but a Nero could do it , but you really should not have set fire to the auditorium as an encore . |
| 11 | The girl in the chapter was under-age , but the sex was so ambiguous and romantic that none but a prude could find it objectionable . |
| 12 | Benjamin looked strangely at me but a ripple of laughter lessened the tension and Mathilda was dismissed . |
| 13 | It was only five in the afternoon , early for me but a drink might help . |
| 14 | Left me but a grave ? |
| 15 | YOU AI N'T NOTHIN' BUT A POUND DOG ! |
| 16 | ‘ These Maillotins attacked the messengers and killed them but a party of royal guards , who by chance were in the vicinity , hunted the outlaws down . |
| 17 | They must be empowered to demand excellence in the courses that they attend and realise that their education is not a favour to them but a means of preparing them to be the sort of doctors that we want in the future . |
| 18 | No I did n't , my mother would n't let me have them but a lot of people have worn them . |
| 19 | If we but a shop wo n't sell us that . |
| 20 | ‘ Where no one but a Welshman is likely to be able to track them . |
| 21 | After Lefebvre , we still wish to see space as an object commodified , but in late twentieth century Britain this commodity has not one but a multiplicity of identities . |
| 22 | Newbigin cites the evidence of not one but a variety of Christologies in the New Testament reflecting ‘ the attempts of that community to say who Jesus is in terms of the different cultures within which they bore witness to him . ’ |
| 23 | Some fish go a step further and display not one but a pair of false eyes . |
| 24 | No one but a native would consider such details , uninformative to the outsider , as worthy of note . |
| 25 | No one but a Socialist stands a chance of promotion or employment under the Council today . |
| 26 | ‘ Surely no one but a madman … ’ |
| 27 | Not a terribly expensive one but a calendar would do fine . |
| 28 | With no reason to suppose he was anybody but a Greek-Cypriot , they would go on talking business in Arabic , and Taxi George would time their cab ride according to the intelligence value of their conversation . |
| 29 | He had left soon after two o'clock , taking nothing with him but a couple of German textbooks . |
| 30 | Although nothing could be seen of him but a silhouette Stephen was sure the man was looking at him , staring insolently at this approaching form across the intervening , pallid , tundra-like land . |