Example sentences of "but a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've heard of a pub crawl … but a hospital crawl ? |
| 2 | Most of those released are non-political prisoners convicted of criminal offences , but a number of prisoners of conscience will also be released . |
| 3 | In many countries , regional and national newspapers report on these prisoner cases — the Slovenian Catholic weekly Druzina , the French national daily Le Monde , and the Pakistani daily The Muslim , to name but a few . |
| 4 | Any art critic may take such a position , but a historian almost never . |
| 5 | The whole surface of the sea included in the picture is divided into two ridges of enormous swell , not high , not local , but a low broad heaving of the whole ocean , like the lifting of its bosom by deep-drawn breath after the torture of the storm . |
| 6 | Some stress has been thrown thus far on modernism and its advocacy , but a traditional critic may write as well or better than a modernist . |
| 7 | In other words , stylistic change is at a premium ; in Gombrich 's book the dramatic innovations of Caravaggio do well , but a distinguished painter , say Bonnard , who is not so bold or challenging an artist was omitted until additions were made to the text in 1971 . |
| 8 | In Rome a visitor can stand in front of a Baroque church , but a few minutes later , having walked only a short distance , may have plunged back in time to Antiquity . |
| 9 | But a subtle critic may well save us a great deal of time , pain and trouble in the learning , for he can set us aright at the outset , and by his example rather than by his assertions show us how to avoid admiring that which is unworthy . |
| 10 | How valuable biographical information is to literary or art criticism is a question that will never receive a decisive answer ; but a commonplace observation can be made , that circumstances alter cases . |
| 11 | for art historians , incomplete schemes or dismembered works such as altarpieces have the attraction of needing detective work ; but a critic takes an interest in a reconstruction only if it throws new light on surviving art . |
| 12 | It might make artistic sense for the gallery to borrow some key picture to enhance the look of an exhibition , but a picture which is not for sale is an expensive use of wall space . |
| 13 | But a solicitous critic ( Amis has had his share , for all the faces he makes ) could perhaps be counted on to demonstrate that the novelist is sorry that Patrick is sexist . |
| 14 | My very writing became a different adventure , no longer the dolorous itinerary of a convalescent , no longer a begging for compassion and friendly faces , but a lucid building , which now was no longer solitary ; the work of a chemist who weighs and divides , measures and judges on the basis of assured proofs , and strives to answer questions . |
| 15 | For he is but a bastard to the time |
| 16 | I do n't rise sooner , because 't is the worst thing in the world for the complexion ; nat that I pretend to be a beau ; but a man must endeavour to look wholesome , lest he make so nauseous a figure in the side-bax , the ladies should be compelled to turn their eyes upon the play . |
| 17 | However , one thing worth mentioning at this point is that the larger parts are not always a guarantee of an agent 's interest — quite often big roles will attract attention , but a student who has been very well cast in a smaller role may hit the mark just as effectively . |
| 18 | But a tutorial need not be directly connected with a production in rehearsal . |
| 19 | But a key element remained the considerable filial loyalty the catholic nationalists showed towards their clergy , bishops , and Popes . |
| 20 | The episode shows , as Whyte says , ‘ not a clash between Church and State but a shifting consensus involving them both , ( 1980:399 ) . |
| 21 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 22 | But a work of art , so-called , is not a machine , he wrote . |
| 23 | And in that case , wrote Harsnet , there is always the possibility that it will not be the end but a simple pause , a mere hiatus . |
| 24 | Not glass to reflect a bit of the world , but a crystal ball to look into so as to understand the world . |
| 25 | But a culture which is frozen , locked into its contradictions . |
| 26 | Not only revulsion , he wrote , but a sense of indignity . |
| 27 | At the Huntsman 's Inn in Ide , Kent , the refurbishment proposals were to involve demolitions so extensive that all but a portion of the building 's external wall would be destroyed , the planned reconstruction included an extension that would double the size of the original structure . |
| 28 | If the kitchen climate is changing , it 's because working conditions have lost the barrack room brutality which once characterised what was a pretty sordid job in all but a handful of restaurants and hotels . |
| 29 | ‘ But a very nice little bear all the same . ’ |
| 30 | An involuntary shudder but a shudder nonetheless . |