Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] but [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result was not merely a blurring but a confusion , of normal factional loyalties . |
| 2 | At the same time it needs to be increasingly alert and responsive to changing circumstances in not merely a local but a global context . |
| 3 | I was to have not only a tape-recorder but a minder as well to guide me through the intricacies and , I imagine , the possible legal hazards of broadcasting such an item ; he and his lady assistant would arrive and spend a day with me the following week . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , if we say not ‘ dog ’ but ‘ My — dog-Rover-with — the — white — spots- and — the-stumpy-tail ’ , there can be no doubt that we intend not only a specific but a unique reference . |
| 5 | But whatever happens to particular processes , it remains a general condition of modern cultural technology that it both requires social forms of production and yet , within this , under specific economic conditions , imposes not only a professional but a class division of labour . |
| 6 | Sir William Petty , writing at the end of the seventeenth century , argued that excessive morbidity and mortality rates were not only a human but an economic tragedy . |
| 7 | He explained his position in an article , ‘ Sukarno by Himself ’ , which appeared in June 1941 : ‘ There are men who say Sukarno is a nationalist ; others say he is no longer a nationalist but a Muslim ; and others again say he is neither nationalist nor Muslim but a Marxist . |
| 8 | So what I 'm saying to you is , do n't go in over the top , you know , five , just a normal but a firm handshake because a man would expect it because a weak ha ha handshake can be irritating and the same thing if she is a woman |
| 9 | Sustaining not just a home-owning but a capital-owning democracy is crucial to our vision for the 1990s . |