Example sentences of "but [adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They trooped off into the night , short of food and water , but incredibly a freak rainstorm burst , turning the desert into a lake . |
| 2 | But fundamentally the instrumental approach fails to reconcile and explain contradictory tendencies . |
| 3 | The Führer was no longer present among his people ; he played the part increasingly of a deus ex machina , turning up every now and then in Berlin or Munich , but mostly a distant war-lord conducting military affairs in faraway parts but scarcely having any real further contact with the German people themselves . |
| 4 | Some of the houses stood out by dint of their brightly painted front doors but mostly the only sign of decoration was the washing on the lines and hanging from windows . |
| 5 | What intrigues me about that earlier period , especially its drama , is a mode of transgression which finds expression through the inversion and perversion of just those pre-existing categories and structures which its humanist counterpart seeks to transcend , to be liberated from ; a mode of transgression which seeks not an escape from existing structures but rather a subversive reinscription within them , and in the process their dislocation or displacement . |
| 6 | This can be diagrammed in the following way for the early interception : and as follows for the final one : The to infinitive , therefore , is not strictly speaking a verb but rather a syntactic construction : it involves two parts , the infinitive , a verbal form which evokes a representation of an event produced by means of the verb system , and to , a preposition which indicates a relationship between the place in time where the support has to be situated to begin actualizing the infinitive 's event ( occupied by the representation of non-ordinalized person incorporated within the infinitive ) and some other prior place in time which the support is also represented as occupying or having occupied previous to the realization of this event . |
| 7 | It was not soldiering where all hung on victory or defeat , as in other armies , but rather a stylish profession of arms , aimed at bringing greater glory to France and to the Legion . |
| 8 | It may be that there is no actual overflowing , but rather a strong smell of drains — particularly by the front gate . |
| 9 | Often there was little sympathy with the position of women , but rather a strong commitment to a cause or an ideal ; this was the case with Florence Nightingale and the leading women educationalists , Miss Beale and Miss Buss , both of whom turned down offers of marriage . |
| 10 | In some cases this may even mean not using a page makeup package at all but rather a high-powered word processor like Lotus Manuscript , Word or WordPerfect 5.0 . |
| 11 | Something to do with control of terrorism I surmised , but rather a pointless exercise given the haphazard nature of public transport in Peru . |
| 12 | ln that case the last clause — ‘ in that land were we born ’ — is no patriotic bugle-note , but rather a flat acknowledgement of what can not be helped . |
| 13 | The AJR is not itself a remedy but rather a procedural umbrella under which any of the prerogative orders can be sought . |
| 14 | ‘ There must not be attitudes of victory or defeat , but rather a deep sensitivity . ’ |
| 15 | In that sense , he is no ‘ revolutionary ’ , but rather a deep student of solutions , with a solid capacity for the kind of apparently trivial details that make all the difference between winning and losing , between safety and risk . |
| 16 | Unlike most industries the pharmaceutical industry does not have a simple , direct relationship with the customer but rather a complex interaction with the medical profession , the health care system and the general public . |
| 17 | There is , in other words , no simple ‘ culture of failure ’ or ‘ culture of resistance ’ , but rather a complex set of strategies set generally within the context of strong attachments to families and black cultural identities ( Fuller , 1982 , 1983 ; Dex , 1983 ; Riley , 1986 ; Mac an Ghaill , 1988 ) . |
| 18 | She tried , but was not pleased with what came out , with the stilted words : — I have been unwell though not of anything infectious but rather a serious lowering of the spirits which I struggle to overcome . |
| 19 | During the past year there have been few remarkable changes in the desktop publishing market but rather a definite shift of emphasis . |
| 20 | The search and creation of the sex beast by the popular press is not usually a gross misrepresentation but rather a selective portrayal of specific facts . |
| 21 | It had been no accident , but rather a botched assassination attempt , which had set Alexei 's father down on Tarvaras . |
| 22 | Not Beethoven playing for everyday listening perhaps , but rather a fine wine , to be pondered over , and deliberated upon at length before its true quality most fully reveals itself . |
| 23 | In fact the elves seem much more susceptible to a specialised variety of pride not at all present in Paradise Lost , not quite Avarice or ‘ possessiveness ’ or wanting to own things ( as has been suggested ) , but rather a restless desire to make things which will forever reflect or incarnate their own personality . |
| 24 | This was not the arbiter-president that Debré and the other drafters of the constitution had anticipated , but rather a ruling president who was not necessarily constrained by the letter of the constitution ( as he showed in his frequent recourse to referenda and in his willingness to replace prime ministers at his , rather than the assembly 's , pleasure ) . |
| 25 | The overall shift has not been so much from agriculture to manufacturing but rather a steady rise in the service industries , and a fall in primary industries . |
| 26 | Rask , after all , did not involve the government but rather a private-sector company as the transferor . |
| 27 | The ruling Serbian Communist Party , a republican section of the LCY , voted on July 17 at the end of a two-day convention in Belgrade to combine with the pro-communist Socialist Alliance umbrella group in forming a new political party , to be known as the Serbian Socialist Party ; the name change did not indicate any substantive change in the party 's hitherto hardline communist policy , but rather a formal acknowledgement of the continuing trend in Eastern Europe away from the old-style communist parties . |
| 28 | Talk about the game requires no sophisticated analysis of systems and tactics , but rather a shared passion for its simplicities . |
| 29 | On both sides it was understood that Cagney was not just a man off the New York street but rather a remarkable screen performer . |
| 30 | Not exactly the opposite end of the scale , but rather a complementary event designed to include a wider range of objects with an emphasis on attractive decorative objects at reasonable prices , the Fine Art and Antiques Fair at Olympia celebrates its twentieth year of existence with the largest event to date from 3 to 13 June . |