Example sentences of "[noun sg] but [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had seen it there not in terrible isolation but as a part , a vital part , of a larger pattern — one that pointed the way towards completion of her task . |
| 2 | We may be handling a horse and get a feeling that we are in tune with the horse and that it is accepting and even anticipating whatever we want to do : we are in rapport with the horse , and are communicating with the horse but in a way that is not through the other senses . |
| 3 | In 844 Kenneth MacAlpin , a Dalriadic Scot on his father 's side but with a mother of Pictish royal blood , became king of both the Picts and the Scots . |
| 4 | At the request of the salon 's owner they met the girls not at the salon but in a hotel nearby . |
| 5 | I speak not as a lawyer but as a politician . |
| 6 | That the triumphing of the wicked is short , and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment ? … |
| 7 | Then , as soon as they were given access to each other , and also to the small molecules needed as raw materials , in water , both got back to their old tricks even though they were no longer in a living cell but in a test tube . |
| 8 | Her hands were cupped before him in a stylised gesture which he recognised not as that of a beggar but of a supplicant , a penitent , someone reaching out for a blessing from God . |
| 9 | But now to be ‘ orientated ’ is widely seen not as helpful guidance but as a test one has to submit to . |
| 10 | Experts may offer some guidance but from a plaintiff 's point of view it is far better to frame an action using a subsection of s.92 other than s.92(1) ( c ) or ( d ) if at all possible . |
| 11 | When it is true that an effect-the wine bottle 's being open-is my means , it is not such as an effect but as a cause of something else , which other thing is not a means to it . |
| 12 | And I had a script but after a while you do n't you set that aside and use your own style . |
| 13 | One of the explanations for the dolphin 's superb streamlining seems to be that while they are swimming their skin surface shifts in folds or ripples , caused not by muscular action but as a response to changes in pressure on different parts of the body . |
| 14 | The transformation of postwar industrial cities was driven not by some abstract historical force but by a combination of private investment decision and state action . |
| 15 | Since the uncle is the boy 's heir , this shows that the jurist must regard a transmissible interest in the estate as having vested in the boy before his death ; which means that he is taking dies cedens to have passed , although the boy has not lived until age sixteen ; and that in turn means that he is interpreting the trust as subject not to a condition but to a term ( dies ) . |
| 16 | Schizophrenic speech provides a metaphor for metaphor , and it is in this sense that its use in Out may be understood , not as a valorization of the psychotic condition but as a literalization of the figure . |
| 17 | A trust is what is left not in the words of the civil law but as a request , and does not depend on the rigour of the civil law but on the intention of the settlor . |
| 18 | To a man of Joyce 's stamp it added a degree of humiliation and defeat , in that the wound was not sustained in the course of open battle but as a captive of what he soon called his ‘ sub-human ’ enemy . |
| 19 | He was supported by David Buckley , who did n't consider using a consultant accountant as a weakness of management but as a strength . |
| 20 | Victory , perhaps to their own surprise , now seemed almost within the invaders ' grasp but at a Council of War , held at the prince 's headquarters in Exeter House , Derby , on the morning of Thursday 5 December , Lord George Murray , whose tactics so far had been masterly , astounded his fellow-commanders by remarking that ‘ the first thing to be spoken of was how far it was prudent to advance further ’ . |
| 21 | He could not find Strawberry but after a time Cowslip came up to him from the other end of the hall . |
| 22 | The government also announced on May 17 that , effective from May 20 , the zloty exchange rate would no longer be fixed against the US dollar but against a basket of convertible currencies . |
| 23 | However , financial advice is not provided by the solicitors who are not registered under the Financial Services Act but by a firm of insurance brokers , Sedgwick , which has a contract with the company . |
| 24 | Not just as a , not just a song that we 're singing at the end of a sermon but as a prayer , yes , here I am Lord ! |
| 25 | When the dispute was eventually resolved in Cyril 's favour , it was not by the Council but by a decision of the Emperor Theodosius . |
| 26 | ‘ Aye , ’ replied another , slim and small as a child but with a face centuries old . |
| 27 | The sexy singer believes she will be remembered not just as a pop queen but as a goddess figure — ‘ like Boadicea ’ . |
| 28 | In 1604 he made an apparently excellent marriage but within a year his wife revealed her reversion to Catholicism , whereupon their estates were soon either sold or sequestrated . |
| 29 | Fortunately not only did growth return but on a scale far exceeding expectations . |
| 30 | The polemic in the newspapers had begun not over the kidnapping but over a fight that had broken out a few days previously in a bar much frequented by the young Sardinians who hung around the city and by the city gangs who sold them drugs . |