Example sentences of "[verb] but as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the phrase had remained with him , particularly in its darker aspect , the way it appears to most of those who are bound by the puritan ethic , not as a haven to live in and enjoy but as a paradise to be expelled from . |
| 2 | The nearby Nagacoils act not only as testaments to the fact that the devotee 's prayers have been answered but as tributes to the Serpent Goddess . |
| 3 | While yours must grow but as their Masters please . |
| 4 | It still has an important part to play but as a secondary negotiator possibly as an underwriter to any arrangement Israel may reach with the Palestinians . |
| 5 | Many permutations do exist but as a general rule , the matching of items clause should apply where the remaining undamaged parts of a set or suite can still fulfill the role for which they were purchased . |
| 6 | Melissa touched her arm ; still she did not move but as if a tap had been opened , tears spilt from her eyes and began streaming down her face . |
| 7 | Now I 'd often pushed my nose against the window and thought what a classy joint it looked but as someone who would rather spend £50 on a coat than a meal , the prices had come between us . |
| 8 | These phases of group problem-solving should not be seen as a model to follow but as an analysis of what tends to happen . |
| 9 | But funerals in any expensive way here with us , are now accounted but as a fruitlesse vanitie , insomuch that almost all the ceremoniall rites of obsequies heretofore used , are altogether laid aside : for we see daily that Noblemen , and Gentlemen of eminent ranke , office , and qualitie , are either silently buried in the night time , with a Torch , a two-penie Linke , and a Lanterne ; or parsimoniously interred in the day-time , by the helpe of some ignorant countrey-painter , without the attendance of any one of the Officers of Armes , whose chiefest support , and maintenance , hath ever depended upon the performance of such funerall rites , and exequies . |