Example sentences of "but [adv] a [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It may be that there is no actual overflowing , but rather a strong smell of drains — particularly by the front gate . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Something to do with control of terrorism I surmised , but rather a pointless exercise given the haphazard nature of public transport in Peru . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The AJR is not itself a remedy but rather a procedural umbrella under which any of the prerogative orders can be sought . |
| 12 | ‘ There must not be attitudes of victory or defeat , but rather a deep sensitivity . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | During the past year there have been few remarkable changes in the desktop publishing market but rather a definite shift of emphasis . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It had been no accident , but rather a botched assassination attempt , which had set Alexei 's father down on Tarvaras . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Rask , after all , did not involve the government but rather a private-sector company as the transferor . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Talk about the game requires no sophisticated analysis of systems and tactics , but rather a shared passion for its simplicities . |
| 27 | On both sides it was understood that Cagney was not just a man off the New York street but rather a remarkable screen performer . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Tolkien was not by any means cut off from the mainstream of English poetry , though the qualities he valued were not surprise , the mot juste , verbal complexity , but rather a slow probing of the familiar . |
| 30 | The home team were kept at bay by the stout defence of Dilworth , Reeve and Snewing , but eventually a lucky deflection enabled the Otters centre-forward to score . |