Example sentences of "at [det] but [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Singleton laughs at this but the undercurrent is grim . |
| 2 | It was held that it was not copra cake at all but a substance quite different to that contracted for and , because of this , the sellers could not rely on an exclusion clause purporting to exempt them from liability . |
| 3 | is regarded as the most expensive grain in the world , and is n't really a rice at all but a type of grass . |
| 4 | You would have to be a professional cobbler-up of sit-coms to give much credence to the available scenarios , but just in case , I suppose they are that : a ) the tests were so incompetently performed that even a baboon 's sample would have produced the same reading as was clocked by the three athletes identically ; b ) the three runners were having a joke at the testers ' expense ; c ) the German trio was deliberately testing the vigilance of the drug monitors at a relatively out-of-the-way venue , for reasons of their own ; d ) that the samples were not urine at all but a draught of refreshing Lucozade , tested in error . |
| 5 | Halliday and Hasan do not discuss this type of referential linkage and Hoey ( 1988 : 162 ) points out that co-reference ‘ is not strictly a linguistic feature at all but a matter of real-world knowledge ’ . |
| 6 | Sometimes they would stroll under the leafy canopies of the Mardyke , where the river was not a river at all but a stream — his father used to say that you could n't even call it a branch of the Lee , perhaps a twig at best — often dried-up in summer and so narrow that he could nearly have jumped across it if he had been allowed ; at other times their route would take them down the Marina where the river was a broad rink-like expanse that copied in shimmering reflections the haughty hills of Montenotte drawing themselves up from its other side . |
| 7 | Significantly , his successor was not a football player at all but a journalist who got to know the Arsenal chairman while working as a society correspondent for the New York Herald . |
| 8 | The history of Illustrator is an unusual one ; it was originally not a drawing package at all but a font manipulation tool . |
| 9 | Rightly speaking , this is not the Soldier 's tale at all but the Devil 's , for it is he who controls everyone at all times , playing with them like pawns in his game , a game of wrecking and destroying , of interference and final triumph . |
| 10 | If someone ‘ recovers ’ from their arthritic condition but later develops a heart condition then , in reality , they never recovered at all but the focus of their disease shifted from a more superficial to a deeper level . |
| 11 | The creamy-white leaves are so conspicuous that the flowers hardly show up at all but the fragrance is breath-taking . |
| 12 | 1.2 Extension of the principles In recent years there has been an extension of the principles behind the restraint of trade doctrine so as to embrace : ( a ) restraints in contracts which do not fit neatly into what was hitherto regarded as amounting to a restraint of trade ; ( b ) situations where the contract in question was not between the plaintiff and defendant and to which the plaintiff was not privy although he was affected by the working of the contract ; and ( c ) situations when no contract existed at all but the plaintiff could claim that a set of rules or certain conduct affected him prejudicially . |