Example sentences of "[noun sg] but [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | collective bargaining is not typically concluded by a contract , specifying in detail the future rights and duties of either side but by an understanding [ which ] must depend on personal relationships and customary usages . |
| 2 | S. F Perry saw the exercise not as a disappointment but as an heartening indicator of future progress : |
| 3 | It remained an integral part of a government department but with an attempt to try to introduce accountable management and run it in a businesslike fashion . |
| 4 | Not , I hasten to add , through fraud but through an error in part of the model . |
| 5 | The value of accurate geological information was becoming apparent not only as a basis for research but as an aid in assessing the national mineral wealth and in formulating land utilisation policies . |
| 6 | The Government 's response was a new scheme , introduced in 1997 after two years of negotiation and dispute with the POA , called ‘ Fresh Start ’ , under which prison officers can opt to work either 39 or 48 hours per week without overtime but with an improved basic salary . |
| 7 | On a personal note , may I say that when I want to hear the Fourth Symphony for pleasure , which is relatively speaking often , I turn not to Munch or Dutoit but to an old tape I have from 1954 of the much underrated Albert Wolff conducting the Swedish Radio Orchestra . |
| 8 | Curiously , the leucine zipper structures for both proteins are almost identical , and one could view Max as a bZIP protein but with an extra pair of ‘ prongs ’ . |
| 9 | Thermodynamics by contrast is a highly mathematical branch of physics , concerned with relations of heat and work , and conservation of energy really functions in it not as a law but as an axiom : as one of the bases for the deductive , mathematical system . |
| 10 | We venture into public life protected not so much by the sanctions of formal law but by an unwritten charter of civil rights which assigns us both access to and independence from others with whom we come into contact . |
| 11 | Unthinking , he had placed himself not in front of the desk but at an angle to it so that he was closer to the pipes , and he wondered how long the interview would last because it was short of thirty minutes until the call to the Kitchen for dinner and the hunger pain pinched at his stomach . |
| 12 | I 'm never never one for for making work but on an a on although this is n't going to be called an annual report for most children it will be an annual event and I do feel quite strongly that for the child to be able to have the opportunity |
| 13 | The concentration of effort within one small field , and on small quadrats within it , gives the studies high precision and high relevance but with an absolute sacrifice of generality . |
| 14 | Wales was conquered and subjected in the middle ages , Scotland 's parliament and administration were absorbed in 1707 , Ireland lost all but local administration in 1801 and the British upper classes reacted in horror at the prospect not of Irish independence but of an element of internal self-government when it was proposed by Gladstone in 1886 . |
| 15 | This process has been accepted and developed since the first typesetting systems which produced galleys were introduced — indeed an identical process was used with lead type but in an upside down and back to front sort of a way . |
| 16 | The solution was to add a form of the hormone progesterone so that the lining was shed not as a period but as an artificial withdrawal bleed . |
| 17 | The large house at the end is still the shop but with an added provision — the Coll Bistro . |
| 18 | ‘ The Smiths are another good example of that : a totally English sort of pop band but with an incredible gift for creating their own sound . |
| 19 | Marzipan is used not only for adding interest and flavour to a cake but as an ‘ undercoat ’ for cake coverings and also for modelling . |
| 20 | It could then have pleaded force of circumstances and lack of resources , not as a defence but as an excuse . |
| 21 | A mucosa without histological signs of malignancy but with an increased S-phase duration , would indicate that the malignant process has started . |
| 22 | This element regulates HIV not at the DNA level but as an RNA element present in the RNA leader sequence ( 21-23 ) . |
| 23 | In this it may have been little more than a mouthpiece for a Russian directorate but in an article , which , says Sacks , amounted to a reading of the riot act to the ICP , one finds this clear and unmistakable instruction in the French journal Cahiers du Boishévisme : |
| 24 | Wilkins took the silence of the Bible , on a question such as the plurality of worlds , not as a ban but as an invitation to entertain the notion . |
| 25 | Similarly , a realist claim that electrons exist is a claim not about the instrumental observations or theoretical predictions of physics but about an independent world which physics investigates . |
| 26 | These approaches should not be seen as peripheral to the school curriculum but as an integral part of it . |
| 27 | All these processes will be helped immeasurably by the imaginative use of computer technology which , like accountancy , will no longer be seen as a service but as an integral part of the whole process . |
| 28 | It would , for the first time , draw the outside world into the war not as a neutral peacekeeper but as an enemy of one side . |
| 29 | The title Kirkby Hill Races is something of a misnomer , as it refers not to a race but to an election . |
| 30 | I was most comfortable using the previous day 's shuffle but with an added stoop . |