Example sentences of "but a [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Orgreave was not seen as a local picket during an industrial dispute but a trial of strength in a politically charged struggle . |
| 2 | There is little to see of the Potteries at Fenton other than relatively modern factories , but a couple of bottle ovens , now rather rare ( see Longton ) survive near King Street . |
| 3 | ‘ Not sold out , but a couple of coach parties from Vienna — you know , the usual thing , group booking for early dinner at the Strauss Inn and straight back into the coach after the performance . |
| 4 | A visitor to the city wrote any woman , if her credit will serve to borrow a pan , and to buy but a measure of mault in the market , setts up brewing . |
| 5 | He did not in fact inherit the title until 1705 , but a love of hunting he certainly did . |
| 6 | But a crack of light |
| 7 | Homoeopathy is not a complete system of medicine but a system of therapeutics — that is , a system of administering drugs . |
| 8 | For the truth was that she 'd been offered promotion a dozen times — in spite of the fact that when she 'd started as a trainee she 'd had no formal training , no experience , nothing to commend her but a fistful of ambition . |
| 9 | Surfing was an integral part of traditional Island society : not just a sport , but a rite of passage , an initiation , an act of worship , a demonstration of power , and a form of courtship . |
| 10 | Mongalla , south of Bor , was captured two days later , but a column of government troops which moved south-eastwards from Juba was contained by SPLA forces at Ngangala . |
| 11 | Lachlan drew breath to name Ewan ; but a rush of generosity stopped him . |
| 12 | Then I hear a muffled cry of alarm , but a rush of wind breaks up the information to my ears . |
| 13 | But a Ministry of Defence spokesman said last night that neither was in immediate danger . |
| 14 | The Mail began bingo as an answer to the bingo weapons of the Daily Star and the Sun in their circulation war and they dignified it with the name ‘ Casino ’ , but a heap of dung by any other name still smells the same . |
| 15 | Within a few months of reaching its greatest height , nothing remained of it but a heap of rubble . |
| 16 | In a lyrical passage Bologna describes the ‘ absolutely original type of agitator ’ which the IWW succeeded in creating : ‘ not the mole digging for decades within the single establishment or proletarian neighbourhood , but a type of agitator who swims within the stream of proletarian struggles , moves from one end to the other of the enormous American continent and calculates the seismic wave of the struggle … ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 17 | is regarded as the most expensive grain in the world , and is n't really a rice at all but a type of grass . |
| 18 | She tried to sit up but a wave of nausea engulfed her and , with a sob , she fell back on her pillow . |
| 19 | Nicholas 's call for an all-Russian militia provoked a token protest from Moscow 's gentry but a wave of disorder among the peasantry . |
| 20 | The Administration would not be a Coalition Government in the usual sense of the term , but a Government of co-operation for this one purpose . |
| 21 | Further , many public agencies wanted land for future development proposals , but a lack of activity within inner-city land markets , and accusations of land hoarding by the public sector , triggered a response from the 1979 Conservative government . |
| 22 | He would prefer us to be in the position of the person who learns to trust that a friend has posted a letter , and who does not go out to be certain that the letter has found its destination , a search that in fact would portray not faith , but a lack of faith . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Determination , aggression and commitment have all been missing from their recent displays , but a lack of concentration denied them their first much-needed double of the season . |
| 26 | We are not talking here about natural feelings , but a depth of desire which is given to us by God . |
| 27 | The nation has a very large civil service but a mixture of disdain for and suspicion of its civil servants … our leading governmental institutions are without the benefits of great formal authority and respect . |
| 28 | I — ‘ He broke off while I ordered rolls and coffee — ‘ I was being true to our principle , in creating a Swiss love affair for you : real people — ourselves included — but a mixture of fact and fiction . |
| 29 | These shimmering fables , in which an ageing heroine , a ‘ sweet Shura ’ or a Zhenechka , guards her faded mementos and sharp , unfinished memories in defiance of history , help us to understand , perhaps , the drive behind the current , terrifyingly fearless race towards 19th-century-style capitalism : that it is not only a hunger for consumer goods , but a kind of nostalgia for a glamour all the more potent because few now remember it . |
| 30 | She felt as she always did , not fear , but a kind of cold , dead calm , the way you might feel in a car in which the brakes have gone the moment before the crash . |