Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] but [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Convention is confined to international financial leasing , that is , to leasing which in economic terms is equivalent to a sale or purchase-money loan , the equipment being leased to a single lessee at whose request it was bought and the rentals being fixed not by reference to the use-value of the equipment as such but at a level which , taking into account cash-flows , tax-reliefs , and the like , will guarantee to the lessor the reim-bursement of his capital costs and desired return on capital . |
| 2 | I wonder whether , if Labour Members present were Members not of this but of a similar Parliament in an eastern European country or in Russia , they would be taking this attitude . |
| 3 | The large figure of Athena is drawn in a modification of black-figure but in a style that could well be Euthymides 's . |
| 4 | Sepulveda justified the enslavement of the Indians on the grounds that they were the natural slaves mentioned in Book I of Aristotle 's Politics ; the Dominican Friar Las Casas admitted the frailty of the Indians but argued that they were all the more children of God owing to their very lack of capacity and skill , which still implies a sort of sub-humanity but of a different kind . |
| 5 | It was indeed a bit like an LTP effect , though generated not by the artificial injection of current but by a behavioural experience . |
| 6 | The Government found itself not in a majority of 87 but in a minority of 92 . |
| 7 | At first it was quite nice attending interviews and things like that but after a while they all just become the same . |
| 8 | A word spelt like another but with a different meaning , eg bow in a bow and arrow and tie one 's hair with a bow . |
| 9 | The illustrations , like those he subsequently did for Reginald Arkell 's Old Herbaceous ( 1950 ) are printed not in black but in a softer sage green . |
| 10 | The power of United States federal courts to take evidence in aid of foreign proceedings was first introduced in 1855 but as a result of a series of what are now seen as misunderstandings fell into disuse . |
| 11 | Gerry , a member of the Belfast Telegraph staff for 25 years , and previously with the Irish News , underwent a quadruple heart by-pass operation in 1983 but within a week he had started writing his column again from his hospital bed — a column which was part of his life . |
| 12 | No , he 'll be out went out at ten to seven but over a sort of I 've been up since seven , I 've not really sat down all day . |
| 13 | So you do n't really get any break at all but on a |
| 14 | Endill did not hear anything at first but after a minute or two heard what he thought was a cough in the distance . |
| 15 | ‘ The beast was terrifying at first but after a while you realised he was a big softie underneath . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd been asking why she 'd taken a clerical job when she 'd had an art training and she said it was all she could get at first but after a while she 'd managed to wangle this daytime class . ’ |