Example sentences of "but [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My landlord and his servant were in no hurry to help , and could not have climbed the cellar steps more slowly , but luckily a woman , who I supposed was the housekeeper , rushed into the room to calm the dogs . |
| 2 | It was part confession , part explanation , but mostly a plea . |
| 3 | It was not a matter of ‘ if only … ’ , but rather a nostalgia for a different , a parallel plane of existence , a nostalgia for a future she could never have lived . |
| 4 | There is , for most of the century , no simple suggestion of a dominant class resisting a popular culture and attempting to supplant it with a preferred alternative , but rather a willingness not only to tolerate it but to accept a functional involvement . |
| 5 | These hints had their final expression in an astonishing personal letter written by Knox to Mary on 26 October 1559 , claiming that ‘ if it be the office of a very friend to give true and faithful counsel to them whom he sees run to destruction for lack of the same , I could not be proven enemy to your Grace but rather a friend unfeigned ’ — even if moderation was never Knox 's strong suit and so , unable to keep up the quiet tone of the letter , he felt impelled to throw in a postscript : ‘ God move your heart yet in time to consider that ye fight not against man , but against the eternal God , and against his Son Jesus Christ , the only Prince of the kings of the earth . ’ |
| 6 | Second , it is not absolute simplicity that is helpful in the input , but rather a tuning of the degree of complexity to the child 's stage of development and to the on-going demands of the conversation . |
| 7 | The late Bob Hedges , of the Royal Postgraduate Medical School at Hammersmith , a pioneer of plasmid research , suggested almost 20 years ago that bacterial evolution has not been linear , as in higher organisms , but rather a patchwork , with organisms drawing from a communal gene pool . |
| 8 | When attention moves from behaviour at the individual to the organisational level , it is argued that since organisations are not unitary actors , but are made up of individuals and groups with competing interests and objectives , companies can not be understood as pursuing a single goal , but rather a range of conflicting goals . |
| 9 | For example , given the heterogeneous nature of cereal production in the UK , a uniform response is not expected but rather a range of opinion amongst producers , largely dependent on the degree to which producers are committed to intensive cereal production . |
| 10 | On the face of it , however , this does not seem to favour an anti-correctionalist position , but rather a redirection of its focus from lower-to upper-class crime . |
| 11 | The major management concern according to Peters is not a concern with techniques but rather a concern with people , and with the division between management and non-management . |
| 12 | An investment franchise , as the name suggests , does not offer daily earnings , but rather a return on a profitable investment . |
| 13 | Here , focusing primarily on changes in art and architecture in Paris , Vienna , and Berlin during this period , I shall try to show that there is no single ‘ modern ’ but rather a plurality of modernisms each with its own specific national characteristics and significance . |
| 14 | The defendants argued , inter alia , that there was no reliance on the seller 's skill and judgment but rather a reliance by the buyer on his own understanding of the manufacturer 's instructions . |
| 15 | A similar conception of the role of sociology ( though with a more ‘ radical ’ political orientation ) is held by certain contemporary sociologists who want sociology to be not simply a discipline which analyses and explains social life but rather a vehicle for changing society , a discipline committed to the extensive alteration of existing social structural arrangements . |
| 16 | Since then there has been less of a general shortage of labour , but rather a shortfall in skilled , rather than unskilled labour . |
| 17 | Finally , none of the elemental concentrations in healthy subjects were different from those in the group with peptic ulcer disease , so the effect of zinc supplementation , which facilitates the healing of gastric ulcers , may not be due to the correction of cellular depletion , but rather a luminal or pharmacological effect . |
| 18 | In these circumstances , one can scarcely talk about planning , but rather a response to ‘ inescapable commitments ’ . |
| 19 | No , it 's not about taking chances in the commodities market but rather a kind of theatre of concern about human potential in our era of heightened environmental concern . |
| 20 | A main real difference in the experience which marked it off from fundamentalist and some pentecostal forms of conversion experience was that the outcome was not the assurance of being saved , but rather a spirituality of trust in Christ based on repentance and the conviction that God forgives repentant sinners . |
| 21 | Mr. Philpot travelled from Pembrokeshire for a gathering which was not primarily a fund-raising event , but rather a celebration of the building carried out over the previous fifteen years to provide extensions of both premises and facilities . |
| 22 | That is not so much a sign that molecular biology is a young person 's game , but rather a proof of how great a magnet for young people 's enthusiasm the structure of DNA has proved to be . |
| 23 | Not of an inquiring cast of mind , however , but rather a pragmatist , who seized his opportunities with a sure touch , he did not wonder long . |
| 24 | However , if part of that heartwood were found on an archaeological site , the radiocarbon result would not provide the date of usage of the wood , but rather a date three hundred radiocarbon years earlier , and more if it has been seasoned before use or re-used . |
| 25 | And Bretons and Basques tell us that being French is not a unitary condition , but rather a state of dynamic equilibrium between unity and diversity . |
| 26 | As for the book , there was at least no drastic change of plan , but rather a continuation of work already done : " the short work " was surely not all that " finished " by the end of March . |
| 27 | Therefore when he refers to the sphere of circulation here he does not have in mind market relations , but rather a system of planned production and exchange , which may or may not have included some form of monetary accounting . |
| 28 | As I say , I did n't trouble Stu and Gillie about my career hiccup : a trouble shared is not , in my experience , a trouble halved , but rather a trouble broadcast on the mighty tannoy of gossip . |
| 29 | It is with sincere people such as these in mind that this leaflet has been written — not to ride roughshod over a sincerely held belief but rather to confirm the absolute necessity of finding Purgatory , but not a Purgatory that is arrived at after death which is the popular view , but rather a Purgatory that is found before death which is the proper view according to God 's guide , the Holy Bible . |
| 30 | A good thesaurus or list of subject headings is not necessarily one that has been carefully presented , printed and published , with a plethora of effective relationship displays , but rather a list that has been compiled to serve in the retrieval environment in which it is called upon to operate . |