Example sentences of "but [adv] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | From that site too come the Callanish eagles whose strength is not in flight , or size , or speed or skill but rather in a spirit whose power has been forget through time . ’ |
2 | There were in this dingy , badly heated studio , moments of rare artistic quality of a kind that occurs but rarely in a century ’ . |
3 | Other people , however , have a long tradition of breakfasting wholeheartedly , but perhaps in a way that is not wholesome for the heart . |
4 | But perhaps in a way that will be something of a surprise . |
5 | A pity Derek was n't home , but only in a way . |
6 | Fourthly , Realism accepts that political acts have moral significance , but only in a sense which relates to the interests of the political agent and which has more to do with prudence than with traditional ethics . |
7 | JOHNNY MARR and Morrissey , the brains and the looks behind the late , lamented Smiths , are back together again — but only in a design studio . |
8 | Strangely , she was no longer in the long room with the little door , but outside in a wood . |
9 | When news of this reached El Cid , he at once set out for his city but already in a matter of ten days , much of what he had achieved was undone . |
10 | It 's wickedly fattening , but once in a while … ’ |
11 | It was a lot of hard work and a lot of fun , but once in a lifetime was enough , as they themselves had been told by those who had made the 1928 pie . |
12 | The scope of debate is limited or shifted over time in particular directions , but always in a direction which consolidates power into more permanent forms , which in time may become almost invisible to citizens , accepted as uncontroversial , ‘ natural ’ features of the landscape . |
13 | This class of malai never did anything by themselves but always in a party of at least ten . |
14 | These remarks show Nietzsche 's attitude a stage further on , but still in a state of transition . |
15 | In the past , presidential wives have made an impression but usually in a way that has drawn fierce criticism , mainly because they pretended they were n't an influence on their husbands . |
16 | The skald Thorleif Rauthfeldarson has him bloodying swords in England with God 's help , and he was eventually buried , perhaps first in York Minster , but later in a church at Roskilde , according to the Encomiast in a tomb which he had prepared himself . |
17 | I feel that this is reflected not just in the increased knowledge of the students but also in a change of attitude and a few greater degrees of empathy . ’ |
18 | As in the case of parent-child relationships we find here that one-way flows of support can not only be tolerated , but also in a sense are expected , provided the direction of the support is from grandparent to grandchild . |
19 | Epithets such as " naughty " or " dirty " , or their implication , may result not only in a general feeling of unworthiness in the child but also in a sense that they apply to anal-genital matters as a whole . |
20 | Now , looking for guidance in his construction of a monumental figure composition , Picasso too turned to Cézanne , although he approached him , characteristically , not only with veneration ( later in life he was to say ‘ Cézanne was my one and only master ’ ) but also in a spirit of aggression , even of iconoclasm . |
21 | We were surprised by the degree of unanimity in this concern , but also in a way by its maturity . |
22 | Smoke alarms need to be close to where a fire is most likely to break out , but also in a position where an alarm can be heard throughout your home especially when you 're asleep . |
23 | Seasonal peaks are not specific to the service sector ; they are to be found in certain parts of manufacturing — particularly In food processing but also in a number of consumer goods industries -and in agriculture . |
24 | With me it has done well not only in a sheltered , sunny position ( the best conditions ) but also in a place where it has only a few hours of direct sunshine each day . |
25 | The 1991 Opening Shots Forum considers the opportunities for new directors in a period of great change for the film and television industries , but also in a climate of fast dwindling resources . |
26 | How , for example , does one categorize the piety of an individual like the Restoration diarist , Samuel Pepys , who frequently attended several churches on a Sunday , but spent much of the time surveying the attractive women in the congregation ; and who regularly supervised the daily prayers of his household , but often in a state of extreme inebriation ? |
27 | This will give you additional practice of the sounds , but now in a context , e.g. : secondly , put the sounds you are practising in the frame , and substitute elsewhere , so that you do n't concentrate any more on the difficult contrast . |
28 | Her body was still fragrant from her earlier bath , but now in a frenzy of haste she was desperate to rinse it off — all of it : the perfume and the caresses — ashes of a fire with which she had stupidly played . |
29 | if , if Freud 's theory of the group is correct , that it 's centred on the leader playing the super role then the presumably the leader could exhort members of the group to act better than they normally would , because after all one of the super leader 's functions is to set the goals for the ego and to give the the goal , the ego something to aspire to so er and as Joy mentioned in her papers and I 'm trying to remind you of , y you , you said that quoting Freud if you recall that , that , that Freud says and I think he , he , he repeats this from the also made the same observation that in a group or a crowd people can act a lot worse than they normally would , they can be more destructive , primitive erm and er more governed by their erm base emotions as it were , but equally in a crowd people can act better than they normally would . |
30 | The new Dictionary of Surnames by Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges ( Oxford 1988 ) has 70,000 names within its pages , but even in a work of such length there must remain hundreds of omissions . |