Example sentences of "but [not/n't] [prep] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marchbank was , first and foremost , a designer , not a journalist ; Al Clark had some journalistic experience , but not as an editor ; nobody had any great confidence in the man Branson had appointed as publisher , Greg Thain . |
| 2 | [ This observation is in accord with the classic theological understanding of creation , which sees God as the ground and support of all that is ( in our terms , the guarantor of the Schrödinger equation ) but not as an object among objects ( no collapser of wavepackets ) . ] |
| 3 | ‘ But not as an estate agent ? ’ |
| 4 | The Foreign Minister was Nguyen Tuong Tam who had been in south China but not as an associate of Ho Chi Minh ( he fled from Hanoi in June 1946 ) . |
| 5 | This is correct as a statement of fact , but not as an analysis of the logic behind their success . |
| 6 | Genuine covert work , perhaps ; but not without an element of cinema . |
| 7 | In his buoyant narrative style , his particularly exact , observant eye for detail , his confident concentration on a particular event coloured by emotion but not by an intensity of analysis , he offers a significant contrast to Conrad 's dense , probing accounts of similar events . |
| 8 | The vast majority of working-class women worked , but not in an occupation shared by husbands or fathers . |