Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] but a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ An excess in the public expenditure beyond the legitimate wants of the country is not only a pecuniary waste but a great political and above all , a great moral evil . ’ |
| 2 | They were excused few , if any , tasks , Hannah may appear to be a frail pensioner but a lifetime 's exposure to the hard labour of rural life enables her to endure the most extreme elements far better than urban-reared people half her age . |
| 3 | I sell most of the French variety , which is a small sausage with a strong flavour but a coarse and fatty texture . |
| 4 | Consenting in one 's heart is not a performative consent but a psychological state akin to coming to terms with . |
| 5 | A zoom lens is the visual equivalent of a continuous gear shift in a car : merely by turning a handle , the operator can move from a long lens , giving a narrow view but a deep-focus telescopic shot of the subject , to a short , wide-angle lens , with a wide view . |
| 6 | To take an example , a person taking a lien on subfreights is not affected by the register since this is not a registrable charge but a person taking a floating charge would be . |
| 7 | One , apprenticed to a shoe maker , recalled not a cruel master but a mistress who turned him into a household drudge . |
| 8 | Contrary to what Tony Lumpkin believes , speaking for all those who have been subjected to the drudgery of learning it in school , grammar is not a constraining imposition but a liberating force : it frees us from a dependency on context and the limitations of a purely lexical categorization of reality . |
| 9 | And er on your , on the better shoe , like you what we call , might call a Sunday shoe , you 'd have a a rubber heel put on , I do n't mean just a a complete heel but a round disc that was screwed on to your heel , if I can explain that to you . |
| 10 | But I am more and more convinced that the problem is not at heart a technical problem capable of a technical solution but a moral problem concerned with the values of our age . |
| 11 | We argued that the sickness or crisis of capitalism was not at heart a technical matter but a lack of legitimacy with respect to the system itself . |
| 12 | And not a technical matter but a policy matter , I think that the probabilities of it doing that could be er increased by traffic calming measures on the A sixty one to make it take longer to go through Harrogate that way . |
| 13 | Speaking about the resurgence of interest in religion which many people see in the world today , the Chief Rabbi , Jonathan Sacks , asks " Whether religious revival might be not a refreshing breeze but a destructive hurricane . " |
| 14 | He holds not only a gutted Diamond-back but a pose ordained as well as caught by the photographer . |
| 15 | We are not dealing with political issues , civil rights is not a political issue but a moral issue . ’ |
| 16 | He wore a blue suit of safari cut , a non-military colour but a safari-suit nonetheless . |
| 17 | For a boatman whose home was on the river , the pub was not only a social centre but a base where goods could be left , messages collected and horses stabled . |
| 18 | It was quite a shock to learn that the Elsie found at the bottom of Loch Craig was not a twenty-six-year-old woman but a woman in her late fifties or early sixties . |
| 19 | Not surprisingly , Muslim scholars see in sixteenth-century Europe not a scientific renaissance but a reactivation . |
| 20 | Who proved to be not merely a lively guide but a brilliant physicist and a secret poet . |
| 21 | And this is not a once-only experience but a continuing one . |
| 22 | [ History ] is not rigorous because it always proceeds by faults and corrections , because it is not in any way a universal schema but a unique adventure that unfolds on the basis of prehistoric circumstances which constitute in themselves , and in relation to all the objectives and all the practices , a heavy and badly understood legacy of fundamental deviations . |
| 23 | This I knew was not a sexual invitation but a protection against the evil eye . |
| 24 | Another issue raised was that Europe was not just a commercial union but a global power bloc which would need to consider external relations outside Europe . |
| 25 | A hackneyed phrase but a true description , ’ Luce answered flippantly . |
| 26 | Its production is not a once-and-for-all process but a tool in its own right , complementing the many other processes that contribute to the Museum 's development . |
| 27 | Here we have a black prince and a white ‘ blackamoor ’ , a male hero but a female lead . |
| 28 | Mr Rees said one reason for the condition could be a hormonal imbalance before birth which created ‘ a male body but a female brain ’ . |
| 29 | It contains not only a personal element but a property element . |
| 30 | However , even in this context ( in the same way as in the case of joint-stock companies ) it must be borne in mind that a share certificate in Hungary ( like in many continental countries ) is not just a certificate of membership in a limited company but a marketable security , property which may be transferred in case of bearer shares by delivery and by endorsement in case of registered shares . |