Example sentences of "but a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Growth rates in the 1960s began to slow down to two or three per cent , still quite favourable , compared to other countries , but a blow to German self-confidence . |
| 2 | NP officials , however , claimed that the election was " definitely not " a response to the government 's reform programme but a response to local issues . |
| 3 | Gambling may not be everyone 's cup of tea , but A Licence to Print Money is a far more attractive shop-window for the sport than the sober plate-glass faades of Ladbroke 's and William Hill . |
| 4 | But a trip to the field had to be cancelled after the LASMO Riau , a modified tanker used for storage , developed problems at its moorings in the Malacca Strait . |
| 5 | I should in any case have answered Elizabeth 's kind little note , but a reference to Ivy at once warmed me towards her . |
| 6 | Not just one woman 's battle but a plea to all of us to understand the problem . |
| 7 | ‘ Not only a chauvinist , but a voyeur to boot ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ But a confession to me — admittedly a plain , simple person — implies guilt . |
| 9 | All carriages built at Wolverton from 1903–11 had wooden bodies with steel panels , but a reversion to wood panels came with the ‘ top light ’ stock . |
| 10 | A soldier or airman on active service , or mariner at sea , can make an informal will , even by word of mouth , which will be valid provided that his communication to his audience was not a mere statement , but a request to him to see his intention carried out . |
| 11 | For he is but a bastard to the time |
| 12 | Nearly a half consider it to be fairly useful in this respect but a quarter to be not very useful , and 10 per cent not at all . |
| 13 | Nothing would satisfy him , he implies , but a return to the old ways , for only so can academic standards be maintained . |
| 14 | But a return to traditional farming does not mean wearing smocks again or having only three little pigs . |
| 15 | No more ‘ family sagas ’ , but a return to detective stories , police crime and ‘ good stories about people you care about ’ . |
| 16 | Cranmer could not become an archbishop again , but a return to scholarly life was possible if he would only sign one or two documents as a formality . |
| 17 | It heralded not a new age of dispersal , but a return to the bad old days of technological free-for-all-a return to that madness that had once before almost destroyed Chung Kuo . |
| 18 | Whether they were believers BC , I have no idea , but a corollary to their belief must be , why did ‘ God ’ let them get the disease in the first place ? |
| 19 | The loss of paid work did not mean , therefore , a return to a ‘ normal ’ way of life , but a change to a new , more restricted and less rewarding one . |
| 20 | The chartered company continued to be regarded as the best type of organization for carrying on overseas trade , but a grant to an individual proprietor began to be seen as the best way to set up a new colony to which settlers would come to cultivate the land . |
| 21 | But one large finance house which circulates new customers with literature promoting other loan possibilities reported that one in five pursue the offer no indication that the ‘ loans as loans ’ stage is with us yet , but a tribute to the power of the advertising which could bring it closer . |
| 22 | The petition was not successful but a deputation to Sir James Graham , Home Secretary , in April 1842 received some encouragement and an amended petition and a draft of a Charter of Incorporation was submitted to him on 24 March 1843 . |
| 23 | ‘ Joining the ERM is not a prize to be given to our partners when they come up to scratch , but a benefit to ourselves if only we would take it , ’ he said . |
| 24 | The importance of his distancing from earlier critical theory becomes clear ; ‘ science ’ as a form of epistemology can not be dismissed as ideology but a tendency to ‘ scientism ’ can be treated as obscuring knowledge-constitutive interests and as potentially ideological . |
| 25 | But since she is rather ostentatiously concealing it with her arm as she talks I imagine that it is in fact not homework at all , but a contribution to her mother 's Festschrift . |
| 26 | But a question to be answered and the one addressed in this chapter is — can we map the innovation process in such a way as to provide a better understanding about how it might be more effectively managed ? |
| 27 | Being gullible was bad enough , but a coward to boot ? |
| 28 | The future is not a blank wall to line up against , but a way to be walked . |
| 29 | But even in the 1860s , the notion that a " mere girl " might learn the trade very quickly and be doing as well as a man in a short time , was not only a threat to employment but a threat to the craftsman 's pride in his skill . |
| 30 | Why does he persist in being munificent to Mozart and bounteous to Beethoven , but a Scrooge to Hughes and a meanie to Heaney ? |