Example sentences of "[prep] but a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kind of but a cross between the ringlets you do and the ringlets that I had and the type of hair I 've got . |
| 2 | And for that reason , need , local need , should be catered for , unemployment sh obviously should be catered for but a growth strategy which seeks to double the allocation without any justification is inevitably going to lead to one of two things , it is going to draw in in economic activity from outside , and it is likely that that will be from areas of regeneration , or it will lead to commuting . |
| 3 | He guides us among its ‘ toy-like villas , each different in design and each set against a background of trees A curling road winds through , but not everything is revealed at once : a chimney for but a moment here , a turret window through a gap between two acacia trees , a gable partly concealed by the fretted roof of a conservatory , an almond tree in blossom branching over the pavement , a spot of scarlet colour made by a distant pillar box . ’ |
| 4 | What a way to return to the city I had lived in for ten too-long years and had left with but a rucksack on my back only a couple of months previously . |
| 5 | Not one of those books on healthy vaginas and wombs which Marigold might easily have looked into but a work on the nasty bacilli which may infest the human reproductive organs after a bungled or septic abortion . |
| 6 | across the road from but a floor below |
| 7 | Certainly it was never specifically referred to but a reading of the judgment would , I apprehend , ground an argument that the judge , having found that the appellants were in contempt and knew at all relevant times of the existence of the order against them , was in a position to exercise the discretion that he was given . |
| 8 | To make matters worse , because he always does fail in his attempts to improve the situation , the sufferer convinces himself that he has nothing to look forward to but a lifetime of misery . |