Example sentences of "[adj] but a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He brings a world-weariness way beyond his years to his electric portrait of Morrissey-style bedroom star , painfully shy in public but a demon in his own private universe . |
| 2 | Ellis and Shepherd ( 1974 ) first drew attention to this but a number of experiments by Young and his colleagues have failed to show any influence of age of acquisition of words on dichotic listening ( Young and Ellis , 1980 ) or tachistoscopic hemifield asymmetry ( Ellis and Young , 1977 ; Young and Bion , 1980b ) even when it is the age at which words are first read rather than heard that is under investigation ( Young , Bion and Ellis , 1982 ) . |
| 3 | 1357 , was not a Franciscan but a Carmelite of the Whitefriary , and his connection with Stamford is purely related to the university legend . |
| 4 | And they use words like ‘ potto ’ , ‘ cellaro ’ , and ‘ brosha ’ — which are neither Italian nor English but a combination of the two . |
| 5 | The daughter opens and closes the play on a swing , her hair free but a soundtrack of synthesised chords and foundry clatter emphasising this is no Fragonard . |
| 6 | ‘ Mrs Henry Cox ’ , too busy for some but a favourite with many for over a century |
| 7 | One of the things that can emerge is a great deal of mutual help , so that there is not just one group of people giving out to another but a group of people reaching out to one another . |
| 8 | The atmosphere was heavy , oppressive , the smell not immediately identifiable but a combination of human and engine smells , while the only sounds were a soft moaning from a woman towards the front of the plane and the voice of a man trying to reassure someone . |
| 9 | Powerful material for 1963 but a sample of how the show should have developed its characters to make them more rounded and believable . |
| 10 | In the early 1970s this led Weiskrantz and Warrington ( see Parkin 1987 ) to argue that the human deficit was not a failure of memory as such but a deficit in retrieval brought about by undue interference from incorrect items at the time of recall . |
| 11 | The generic label ‘ poststructuralist ’ is here useful merely as a shorthand to designate those contemporary writers who share not a hostility to history as such but a distrust of simple historicisms . |
| 12 | For Oakeshott the ‘ rationalist ’ error is the equation of reason which technique , and thus the problem is not the use of reason in politics as such but a misidentification of what constitutes reason . |
| 13 | He was appalled that I wanted to study English and history , both of which he thought not only pointless but a danger to my identity . |
| 14 | He was commissioned in the Royal Garrison Artillery towards the end of World War I. He obtained a third class in literae humaniores at Oxford in 1921 but a pass with distinction in the LLB at Edinburgh in 1924 . |
| 15 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 16 | I do n't want to dwell too much on the obvious but a number of things should be pointed out here . |
| 17 | A woman with many daughters and no sons is considered not only unfortunate but a carrier of misfortune . |
| 18 | In the UK this is not only absurd but a waste of time . |
| 19 | He was asleep but a voice from behind me might have curdled anybody 's dreams . |
| 20 | Not only that but a change in methods of working , in its ethos and what were seen as its privileges , such as index-linked pensions , was to follow . |
| 21 | Not simply a resurrection in people 's minds — I might well grant that but a resurrection as an objective fact of history , so that it could be said that the causal nexus of history and that of nature were broken ( for there are not resurrections ) . |
| 22 | Not only that but a drought in Maharashtra in 1987 and 1988 , probably the most severe of the century in the subcontinent , has caused barely a ripple of news interest in the world . |
| 23 | One of the key crossover texts , perhaps , is Barthes 's Mythologies , for what is that but a series of camp readings ? |
| 24 | Notice that this doubt is not purely spiritual , nor purely intellectual , nor purely emotional but a question of a subtle though complete change of heart . |
| 25 | Before that Darlington was solidly Labour But a drive through the town illustrates the contrasts : from the deprivation of Skerne Park with its graffiti and vandalism , to the large detached houses and tranquillity of the West End . |
| 26 | The wild bohemianism of the life at Kisling 's was stimulating and hectic but a drain on Modigliani 's limited energy and he was looking for a change in his life . |
| 27 | All but a couple of the bidders were too preoccupied to notice the latecomers . |
| 28 | We are all but a part of a whole which has its own , its distinct , its other meaning : we are not ourselves , we are crossroads , meeting places , points on a curve , we can not exist independently for we are nothing but signs , conjunctions , aggregations . |
| 29 | The failure of these traditional local economic strategies to stimulate and sustain local economic growth in all but a minority of places has led to the development of new forms of policy . |
| 30 | Then , to build upon that simple , flat definition of the hedge 's shape , pastel No. 199 , black , was scribbled across the same area , covering all but a strip at the top with an irregular criss-crossing scrawl . |