Example sentences of "but as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have also campaigned for the Government to give AIDS greater recognition , not as a disease affecting specific sectors of the community , but as a social problem for which there must be adequate welfare provision . |
| 2 | I have also campaigned for the Government to give AIDS greater recognition , not as a disease affecting specific sectors of the community , but as a social problem for which there must be adequate welfare provision . |
| 3 | Nobody wants a florid letter from someone they have never seen before but as an actor your style and personality must come through sufficiently — a bare list of parts played wo n't convey much . |
| 4 | The structure of this oppressive power contained not the Roman catholic church as state executive , but as what Gramsci termed ‘ an organic intellectual ’ , as a planner and co-executor of the ethos of the state , merging this public aspect of the catholicism of the day with ideological elements from more recognized sources of catholic-Irish nationalism : the language movement , anti-imperialism and , generally , catholic-Irish domination . |
| 5 | But as if fixed to a wall there . |
| 6 | The glass not as addition to room , he wrote , but as subtraction from room . |
| 7 | It 's no longer thought of as cranky or old-fashioned , as the press tries to make out , but as a much-needed way of helping to preserve this world by finding alternatives to chemicals and peat-cutting . |
| 8 | Thus a gold or purple-leaved shrub is best used not as an alternative to green foliage , but as a specimen highlight whose beauty depends on the contrast with its green neighbours . |
| 9 | Storage methods vary considerably , as do the most suitable conditions ( ‘ Grenadier ’ apples store best several degrees cooler than ‘ Blenheim Orange ’ , or example ) , but as a general rule the place of storage should be dry and cool . |
| 10 | It is as if , with the name , an extra dimension of personality is added — not merely as a pious recollection of the great , but as a stimulus ( at times a goad ) to the one so named . |
| 11 | It is not meant as a criticism but as a frank report of how we think your child gets along at camp as an individual and as part of a group . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | When this picture was fully developed , even space was represented not as being qualitatively the way it is in vision , but as a structural isomorph of visual and tactile space . |
| 14 | Predictably , perhaps , I regard this argument not as a demonstration that the acquisition of new concepts is impossible , but as another reductio ad absurdum of the representational theory of the mind . |
| 15 | But as an Indian woman , and the only daughter among seven brothers , she resisted all attempts to teach her how to cook and clean fish and how to prepare spices for sauces . |
| 16 | This book shows something of what has emerged out of religious interpretations of death , not as a history of death but as an indication of what lies at the root of the major religious traditions , lending to each its characteristic style . |
| 17 | The pointes must not be thought of as a prop on which to balance the body , but as an extra dimension to make dramatic sense of a statement about the character on pointes and/or to relate in some way to the story or theme . |
| 18 | A small point to raise maybe , but as a sentimental traditionalist I feel we should stick to the original figure of 14 as adopted by those early pioneers . |
| 19 | French polish is usually a dark brown colour , but as a collective noun it includes button , white , transparent and garnet polishes , which are made with various types of shellac . |
| 20 | Marmeladov does n't think of a drunkard as a human being but as a brute , a beast , a swine . |
| 21 | Megill writes not as a literary critic but as a philosophically trained historian of ideas . |
| 22 | ‘ Publication ’ is increasingly important , not just to secure advancement in an individual academic 's career , but as a sign of an institution 's status . |
| 23 | Quantity in this sense , duration , is what musicians and musical composers are continually concerned with ; and so it is not surprising that poets of this way of thinking , like Pound and Bunting , show themselves avidly interested in poetry which has been , not at a level of theory but as a fact of performance , intimately associated with music : poetry that has been set , or has been written in the hope of being set , to music . |
| 24 | It is in any case certain that for years before Homage to Sextus Propertius Pound had been studying , not for their content chiefly but as models of musical form , the poems in quantitative metre of ancient Greece . |
| 25 | They see themselves not as author and illustrator , with separate roles , but as a partnership of ‘ book-makers ’ , contributing equally to the process . |
| 26 | He sat down at last to silence , but as a man fulfilled : the tutorial was over . |
| 27 | A much safer route to travel is that which Mr Garton Ash approves only as a means to an end , namely that of encouraging urgent reform in the German Democratic Republic , but as a separate state with a future of its own . |
| 28 | But as a competitor , you do not think about politics and you just hope everyone will be there . ’ |
| 29 | There is some ‘ outstanding teaching in most subjects in most institutions , but as a proportion of the total teaching effort the amount is comparatively limited ’ . |
| 30 | I do n't see the support of victims of crime as a separate service provided by a small specialist agency but as something which should be much more widely accepted like sickness or bereavement , so that people can get a more sensitive and understanding response from their employers , neighbours , doctors and so on . ’ |