Example sentences of "[noun prp] but [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps because of the influence of Juliete De Valero Wills , now divorced from Andy but still a company director , Go ! |
| 2 | ‘ Naturally I am slightly sad , mainly for Andrew Adams but also a little for myself . ’ |
| 3 | He tells us that , ‘ with the reassessment of this one drawing in the British Museum ‘ Seated nude surrounded by drapery ’ once a Rembrandt but now a Raven the attribution to Rembrandt of a whole series of nude studies by the same hand collapsed ’ . |
| 4 | It did not reflect particular animus over Korea but more a feeling of frustration at the setbacks encountered by American policy in the Far East in the previous two years . |
| 5 | One has the odd title of the Boulevard du B.A.B. , revealing that it has taken over the line of the old tramway , the Bayonne-Anglet-Biarritz ; the other , further back from the coast , is the N10 , once the crowded highway along which French motorists hurtled into northern Spain but now a gentler place to drive , the motorway having supplanted it . |
| 6 | Polls had until recently shown support for Mr Patten but now a majority wants him to back down . |
| 7 | A list of 1797 provides the information that the 25 per cent of London 's banks who did not act as agent to even one country bank included most of those in the West End but only a few of the older of the Lombard Street group . |
| 8 | From the mid-nineteenth century onwards it turned out that not the whole population of Ireland was willing to be represented at Westminster but only a portion , the portion namely in which sixteen out of seventeen constituencies still choose to send Members to Westminster today . |
| 9 | For example , one person 's faith may be a genuine trust in God but also a trust in certain Christian friends , while another person has truly committed himself to God and also to the care of a Christian community . |
| 10 | The three asserted that their only observation had been to suggest that because such a rumour was circulating it would be wise for it to be firmly denied or some enquiry made , and that they had not made any allegation against Profumo but only a suggestion for his benefit . |
| 11 | In an eerie reversal of the situation in the North American market , Oracle 's next biggest competitor is n't the plucky standards-hot Sybase but virtually a legacy operation , Ingres , currently owned by Ask Computer Systems Inc . |
| 12 | Mr Dose the doctor , for example , not only has a Mrs Dose but also a Master and a Miss Dose . |
| 13 | This report has the double ingredients of being about a person who was not only subject to the attentions of The Fox but also a relative . |