Example sentences of "but [vb -s] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The control of fire is the mark of the civilization man aspires to , but constitutes a kind of sacrilege , a " robbery of divine nature " , that must be paid for with immense suffering : human aspiration must inevitably bring man into conflict with the divine realm . |
| 2 | This is less stringent than the German standards , but represents a toughening of earlier suggestions , which envisaged targets of only 60 per cent recovery , and 40 per cent recycling , although within a shorter time-frame of five years . |
| 3 | Also , cl 3.3 deals with the right not only to reject the goods in question , but grants a right to cancel the balance of the order as well . |
| 4 | Ian Durrant , whose midfield creativity will be crucial , appeared briefly as a substitute against Switzerland and Portugal but wins a starting role for the first time since being seriously injured four years ago . |
| 5 | While the rediscovery of women 's experiences has been seen as one of the first tasks , the problem is not just one of ‘ bringing women back in ’ but involves a struggle to upend traditional theories , concepts and methods so that women 's experiences , their relationships to each other , to children and to men become part of the mainstream . |
| 6 | The ‘ she-male ’ character of the Bessy is not merely a woman impersonated by a man , but denotes a combination of both male and female , a total unity encompassing the whole in primitive man 's attempt to understand the universe . |
| 7 | Team nursing not only provides this support but offers a way in which the fullest value can be gained from the opportunities for ward learning . |
| 8 | Each team member not only comments on the group 's performance but circulates a self appraisal answering these kinds of questions : |
| 9 | His powerful , concentrated , gently oaky Boteleur at £6.99 is a classic but needs a bit more time and his Green label Chardonnay also at £6.99 is a real winner , multi-layered , rich and toasty . |
| 10 | The alternator can be fitted straight to your engine using the Series III mounting bracket but needs a Land Rover alternator pulley . |
| 11 | The effect is now spectacular , but looks a bit unnatural . |
| 12 | The tune-o-matic bridge can be considered to be the 335 connection , but looks a mite out of place on such a small body . |
| 13 | But Rainbow lives on the wrong side of the big white screen , and is a child of her time : she does n't just look before she leaps , but holds a seminar on the pros and cons . |
| 14 | The collector of signed letters by modern statesmen faces an additional hazard in the form of a machine which not only reproduces signatures exactly but holds a fountain pen or biro to accomplish them . |
| 15 | It is still not uniform in type but has a tendency towards beefiness and size , with bulls averaging 145cm and 1,200kg , and cows 140cm and 800kg . |
| 16 | Lise is not a trained cook , but has a wealth of valuable experience which began with helping her mother in a small hotel in Copenhagen . |
| 17 | But has a clerk got the right to tell a couple that their wedding is nonessential spending ? |
| 18 | The standards we bring to bear in the act of appraisal have their purchase precisely because the act , or artefact , or creation , or social institution is not fixed , but has a degree of mutability about it . |
| 19 | dad 's bike is exactly the same but has a 23in frame and 26in wheels and comes in blue and white . |
| 20 | He lives in London , but has a base in Milton Keynes and says they have support across the constituency . |
| 21 | The company lags behind Bell and Sikorsky in numbers of helicopters delivered annually , but has a backlog of 165 orders for the MD500 series and 240 ‘ certificates of interest ’ for the Explorer , though only four firm orders . |
| 22 | It is therefore argued that the operation of monetary policy should be taken out of the hands of the government which is politically motivated and into the hands of the Central Bank , which is neutral but has a reputation to uphold ( such a situation exists in Germany , with the Bundesbank deciding on monetary policy ) . |
| 23 | The imitation fly is like a Goldhead but has a pewter coloured head on a nymph body . |
| 24 | ‘ But has a case been opened , old fellow ? |
| 25 | TRACE II does not have a syntactic component , but has a mechanism for such information to be used . |
| 26 | Cosset ( 1984 ) provides evidence that the risk premium is highly volatile and random , and Cornell ( 1977 ) has shown that the risk premium changes sign over time but has a mean of zero . |
| 27 | It does cook up wet and sticky , but has a texture of its own and is full of flavour . |
| 28 | He commented that if the process was to have practical importance ‘ we would have to find a different catalysing particle which has properties similar to the muon but has a lifetime of at least ten or twenty minutes . ’ |
| 29 | What the German group has done ( Electronics Letters , Vol 27 No 13 ) is to create a static master-slave flip-flop which operates at 14GHz but has a dissipation of less than 35mW . |
| 30 | He came to the attention of Jonathan Swift [ q.v. ] , who wrote : ‘ I have contrivd to make a Parson of him ; for he is half a one already , being in Deacon 's Orders , and serves a small Cure in the Country , but has a sword at his A[rse] here in Town . |