Example sentences of "not a [noun sg] [noun sg] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | However his second Service is marked by a peculiarly English innovation : the introduction of passages for solo voice and organ , which plays not a continuo role but polyphony to which the voice doubles a part or supplies an otherwise missing one : |
| 2 | The package index is not a precision tool but in practice variations between packages can be in the order of 2–300 per cent so the differences are likely to exceed percentage error . |
| 3 | The most dramatic new facility is the blend tool which is not a kitchen utensil but rather a means of modifying one form or colour into another . |
| 4 | This is not a performance diagram but a potential performance diagram ( Fig. 1.25 ) . |
| 5 | Tristan Garel-Jones is not a household name but he has been a key player in British , and particularly Tory , politics over the past two years . |
| 6 | ( iii ) has had an order made against him which is not a bankruptcy order but which has the same or a similar effect under the law in force in any territory outside England and Wales ; |
| 7 | It was not a heart-and-soul confession but an admission of guilt . |
| 8 | He acknowledges that liturgy is not a museum piece but needs to evolve as part of a living tradition . |
| 9 | ‘ The story of Marie Grubbe is not a love story but a story about love — a love that does not depend upon reassurances , whether of a material , emotional or spiritual kind , but is self-generating . |
| 10 | Not a Cessna Caravan but a Russian monoplane turboprop redesign of the old An-2 , seen at Mosaero '92 near Moscow — story above . |
| 11 | Front Runners the best of Brough Scott 's writings in the Sunday Times and Independent on Sunday , is not a rugby book but includes the odd rugby piece . |
| 12 | Professor Clark is probably correct in seeing in eighteenth-century mobility , not a development constraint but a " steady but flexible labour response to economic change " which assisted an " orderly progress " towards early industrialisation . |
| 13 | It had been caught in the most unlikely of places , not a country location but on the High Row in the centre of Darlington ! — Mr Ken Wood with a badger poster . |
| 14 | Leonor Fini underlined this concern when she painted her friend Leonora Carrington in a breastplate and sensible skirt , not a fetish object but a woman warrior and a ‘ true revolutionary ’ , released from cliches of femininity . |
| 15 | The first letter I opened was not a sympathy card but a £40 bill from Warwickshire ambulance service for the use of two of its vehicles . |
| 16 | But what it correlates with is not a gender role but more specifically a child-rearing role . |
| 17 | It is not a party point but a House of Commons point against the Treasury Bench . |
| 18 | When she goes to parties she will wear not a party frock but a summer frock with a bow at the neck and a tie round the waist . |
| 19 | We wish to suggest here not a conspiracy theory but a coincidence of interests that embodies these beneficiaries . |
| 20 | Ms Walter offers us not a contralto tragedy-queen but a real woman passionately attached to her husband ( to whom Mick Ford lends a shy goodness ) and children . |
| 21 | Mr Falt could be forgiven his smirk when , on election day , he was able to report not a body count but a remarkable turnout of voters . |
| 22 | Careful instruction on its use is necessary : the user needs to understand that it is not a miracle cure but that it can provide real if limited help . |
| 23 | The judge went on to find that not only was the information contained in the manuals and the feasibility study not a trade secret but that the information contained in the feasibility study was too obvious and too vague and unspecific to be caught by any alleged fiduciary duty that the defendants were under . |
| 24 | Tony Raynham is not a science teacher but a 3rd-year chemistry undergraduate at Imperial College in London 's fashionable South Kensington . |
| 25 | A weeping standard achieves a different form by having not a bush type but a rambler budded into the top of the stem , from where the long flexible rambler stems hang and drape down like a floral curtain . |
| 26 | Under normal circumstances , Lucien would have been reared by his uncle , Enkhari , who was not a blood relative but the lover of his father . |
| 27 | It could be a horse decoration , not a snaffle boss but a hanging brass . |
| 28 | Experience has shown that the aim of developing an entire curriculum of media education is not a starting point but the end of a long process . |
| 29 | It is not a weaving arm but a large loom about 24″ wide . |
| 30 | It is not an accountancy measure but a way of enabling us to put a figure on all the opportunities we miss and all the things we foul up . |