Example sentences of "[noun prp] but a " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , by these Soviet standards of judgement not only Afghanistan but a number of African and Asian states in the Non-Aligned Movement have breached the principles of non-alignment in the 1980s through various forms of military cooperation with the Soviet Union . |
| 2 | And what was Greenham but a phenomenon of the 1980s ? |
| 3 | Pippin 's grievances had , unsurprisingly , nothing to do with Alemannia but a lot to do with his father 's interference in and around Aquitaine which had once , of course , been Louis 's own realm ( he had ruled it as sub-king from 781 to 814 ) . |
| 4 | A season ticket soon followed , paid for by Kathleen but a regular amount was deducted from my wages to pay her back . |
| 5 | During the mid-1980s there had been a decline of organized violence inspired by the PLO but an increase in individual acts , a register of growing popular frustration at the situation and , in retrospect , a register of the growing internal pressures . |
| 6 | Passenger ferry to Craignure on the Isle of Mull for a tour not only of Mull but a visit to Iona . |
| 7 | A wet day at Anfield but a Royal success . |
| 8 | The most significant of these was the substitution of a wooden table for a stone altar , a move that gave a visual emphasis to the Protestant belief that the eucharist was not the re-enactment of Christ 's sacrifice on Calvary but a remembrance of the Last Supper . |
| 9 | Small but an expensive present please |
| 10 | Ashida 's views were conveyed to Washington but a decision was taken against separate peace treaties with Germany and Japan . |
| 11 | At the time of writing they had not selected anyone to contest East Hampshire but a spokesman did not rule out the possibility before nominations closed . |
| 12 | Does the Minister agree that to increase income from patients excluded from free treatment is not only an abuse of the founding principles of the NHS but a classic illustration of the two-tier health service that his Government are introducing ? |
| 13 | This inability of the court to intervene is founded on the fact that the applicable law is not the common law of England but a peculiar or domestic law of which the visitor is the sole judge . |
| 14 | Perhaps the ‘ I ’ of the poem is not William Wordsworth but a rustic narrator — compare the old sea-captain who tells the story of The Thorn . |
| 15 | It was argued on Mrs Flint 's behalf that the transfer of property order was not a disposition by Mr Flint but a disposition by the Court and therefore s 284 did not apply . |
| 16 | What I could see was not the Land Rover but a rock . |
| 17 | Brando refused to act with him in the end and Harris found himself addressing his lines not to Brando but a packing case acting as a stand-in . |
| 18 | He found nothing on Josie but a couple of folded Kleenex and a Tube ticket , but then when he rolled her over he heard a faint clink of metal on stone . |
| 19 | Neither d'Argenlieu nor Ho led their respective sides at Fontainebleau but an agreement seemed no more likely between their substitutes : Max André , with his interests in the Banque de l'Indo-Chine , and Pham Van Dong . |
| 20 | It can give the correct SG but a neutral solution ( pH 7 ) whereas brackish waters are pH 7.6 to 8 . |
| 21 | The senior members remained in Shelley and Kirkburton but a new branch was now established further south . |
| 22 | Additional imports generated may have been around 15 per cent for the United Kingdom , rather less for the EEC but a good deal more for the United States . |
| 23 | He was buried in state at Repton but a contemporary visionary pictured him in hell . |
| 24 | ‘ People still think all the money goes to Africa but a third of the money raised so far has stayed in Britain , with 1,600 Comic Relief projects over here , ’ she said . |
| 25 | Then , fourteen years later , after it had seemed that this strange fish had appeared only to disappear totally , another was caught , not off South Africa but a thousand miles away in Anjouan , one of the tiny Comoro Islands that lie in the Indian Ocean midway between Madagascar and the coast of Tanzania . |
| 26 | Most of their time was devoted to European issues and China but a Japanese peace treaty was pursued . |
| 27 | The photographic section on the camp was not very busy , having no aerial photos of enemy territory to decipher any more , and one of the photographic LACs got himself onto a good thing by setting himself up taking portraits , mostly of Waafs but a few airmen too . |
| 28 | We have data on some hazardous sites ( e.g. those regulated by CIMAH ) in the UK but a much more comprehensive approach should be adopted , especially if we are serious in the search for environmental associations with chronic diseases . |
| 29 | The award came as a big surprise for Sam but an even bigger surprise for the Joe Borrows Agency who already had the Bradford-based singer booked at the Great Ayton Social Club on the night of the awards show . |
| 30 | Here there will need to be not one module in EP but a variety of modules each geared to a particular path and each with a different set of prerequisites . |