Example sentences of "but [adv] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the unconscious means anything whatsoever , it is that the relation of self and others , inner and outer , can not be grasped as an interval between Polar and opposites but rather as an irreducible dislocation of the subject in which the other inhabits the self as its condition of possibility . |
| 2 | This functionalist style views law not as a phenomenon which exists on an altogether different plane to government but rather as an instrument which is part of the apparatus of government . |
| 3 | The alternative view sees constitutions not as a conscious creation but rather as an evolutionary consequence made up of ‘ substantive principles to be deduced from a nation 's actual institutions and their development ’ ( McIlwain , ibid . ) . |
| 4 | Gramsci saw the dichotomy between the two not as a centre-periphery relationship but rather as an aspect of the way in which the interests of monopoly capital used the state to keep the undeveloped areas repressed and passive ; Gramsci describes the south variously as ‘ a semi-colonial market ’ , a ‘ source of savings and taxes ’ and a ‘ pool of cheap docile reserve labour ’ . |
| 5 | Aboriginals , it was true , could not imagine territory as a block of land hemmed in by frontiers : but rather as an interlocking network of " lines " or " ways through " . |
| 6 | This has nothing to do with NHS reforms but rather with an excess of tender concern on my part . |
| 7 | And not a thing of beauty , but rather like an ex-pugilist . |
| 8 | Worried staff at the centre called in the police , who instructed Mrs Duncan to make her speech not in front of the centre but rather in an unobtrusive site on another street 175 yards away . |
| 9 | We wanted , on the whole , to be good , not just through fear of punishment , but perhaps with an element of pride . |
| 10 | Where you find those two provisions you construe the document , not as a release , but merely as an undertaking not to sue a particular individual , and the result is that the right to proceed against the co-debtor is reserved and can be put in force against him . |
| 11 | In the Soviet Union successions to the general secretaryship after Stalin were achieved in a relatively orderly fashion but entirely as an internal party matter with no element of public choice . |
| 12 | Sailing craft can not sail directly into the wind but only at an angle of 45 degrees to it . |
| 13 | The questions which arise in aircraft accident investigation usually relate to the boundaries of radio technology — things such as trying to establish the radio propagation conditions in which some phenomenon or other gives rise to a kink in an instrument landing system localiser or glide slope but only on an intermittent basis , or the reliability of a radio altimeter in an auto-land system during an approach over surfaces with greatly differing radio reflecting characteristics . |
| 14 | After that for six days little smoke columns seemed to be sprouting up all over the forest , now here , now there , but only for an hour or two . |
| 15 | This is done in Appendix C , but to anticipate briefly , the reasons depend in essence on two facts : ( a ) Whenever a property is qualified it remains a property , so that e.g. ( P P ) P reduces to P P ; ( b ) The property of an adjective can not normally be applied to another property-word but only to an E. Thus while ( P E ) P reduces from a purely structural point of view to P P , it needs to be treated as a distinct pattern when the final P is an adjective , since , unless the E can be taken into account , the structure will be literally incoherent . |
| 16 | Research revealed that people were prepared to buy raisins , but only as an ingredient for the store cupboard . |
| 17 | I was not interesting in myself , but only as an example . |
| 18 | Compensation for cross boundary flows suffered from a number of flaws and disincentives : a Compensation was not made in cash but only as an adjustment to a district 's RAWP target after a two-year time lag . |
| 19 | In the latest round of restructuring at the company , Siemens wants to cut employment at Siemens Nixdorf to 47,000 from the present 50,000 — but only over an airy ‘ next few years ’ . |
| 20 | Private companies can now get rid of the requirement for member involvement , but only by an elective resolution under s 379A . |
| 21 | The first session of the Consultative Council ( announced in November 1990 — see p. 37873 ) opened on Jan. 5 , when its Speaker Sheikh Abdullah bin Ali al-Qatabi said that the council heralded a new era of joint national action ; the 59-member council would draft policy proposals for economic and social legislation but only in an advisory capacity . |
| 22 | Should you still be unable to contact Matron , go to the Lower Office but only in an emergency . |
| 23 | It accepted Mr Yanaev as vice-president ( but only after an embarrassing failure in the first vote and some heavyweight intervention by Mr Gorbachev ) . |
| 24 | Christine has just been given the all clear … but only after an intensive five weeks of radiation treatment . |
| 25 | The language apart , Leonard also seems to have been drawn towards the scandal-provoking propensities of the social catalysts as well as their revolutionary emphases ; drawn towards them , at times suggesting some involvement with them , but always as an outsider to their cause ; never a fully committed revolutionary himself . |
| 26 | Furthermore , while economic historians might assess in retrospect the effects of excise on levels of consumption , or by implication on the level of savings , customs duties in their own time were never seen solely from the point of view of the revenue but always as an important instrument of economic regulation . |
| 27 | These involved the experimental subject in observing three-dimensional figures on a VDU , and then answering questions about aspects of the figures that were knowable — but hardly at an intuitive level . |
| 28 | This , it is to be assumed , his liberal readers may take seriously as a threat , but hardly as an option . |
| 29 | In 1924 , Leese joined the British Fascists , but more as an anti-socialist and anti-semite , and his Stamford group soon broke away from the mainstream Fascist movement . |
| 30 | Such efforts , like the one supported by Kurt Schmoke , the mayor of Baltimore , build on programmes from parts of Europe and Australia which treat drug-taking not as a criminal matter , but more as an issue of personal choice and public health . |