Example sentences of "a [noun] but [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though this is not to say that abortion is a topic to be taken lightly as it is a human life a woman is dealing with and I think she should think carefully about all her options before she makes a decision but in the end it is her baby and up to her what happens . |
| 2 | It could then have pleaded force of circumstances and lack of resources , not as a defence but as an excuse . |
| 3 | As Sikes , Measor and Woods have found in their life history interviews with secondary teachers , many teachers regard examinations not as a constraint but as a resource for motivating pupils at an age when their enthusiasm for school might otherwise be waning . |
| 4 | Wilkins took the silence of the Bible , on a question such as the plurality of worlds , not as a ban but as an invitation to entertain the notion . |
| 5 | He saw the state not merely as a division but as a combination of labour , an economic community or union every bit as real as the household or firm , and far more powerful . |
| 6 | At the ensuing parliament in April 1254 clerical proctors armed with plenary powers did attend and offered a grant but on a condition which the king found unacceptable : that he should remedy their grievances . |
| 7 | He had applied for a grant but at the time Liverpool City Council was snowed under by applications . |
| 8 | Yeah I , I feel Brian I mean , you know , you said we 'd got ta be natural , it 's all very well reading from a script but at the end of the day it 's natural that comes across . |
| 9 | And I had a script but after a while you do n't you set that aside and use your own style . |
| 10 | Abbot Ælfric stressed Christ 's humility , describing in his homily The Exaltation of the Holy Cross how an angel reminded the seventh-century Byzantine emperor Heraclius that he " would not encircle his head with a golden crown , but with one of thorns " , and that before the crucifixion " he was not clothed in purple , nor adorned with a royal crown , nor rode he … upon a horse but upon the back of an ass " . |
| 11 | Since the uncle is the boy 's heir , this shows that the jurist must regard a transmissible interest in the estate as having vested in the boy before his death ; which means that he is taking dies cedens to have passed , although the boy has not lived until age sixteen ; and that in turn means that he is interpreting the trust as subject not to a condition but to a term ( dies ) . |
| 12 | Her hands were cupped before him in a stylised gesture which he recognised not as that of a beggar but of a supplicant , a penitent , someone reaching out for a blessing from God . |
| 13 | It is not worth a mention but for the fact its distribution and promotion is funded by our own dear British Film Institute . |
| 14 | Hereford cider producers Bulmers had been rumoured to be considering a bid but in the end have apparently not tendered an offer , fearing a referral by the Office of Fair Trading to the Monopolies Commission . |
| 15 | I speak not as a lawyer but as a politician . |
| 16 | ‘ Aye , ’ replied another , slim and small as a child but with a face centuries old . |
| 17 | Thermodynamics by contrast is a highly mathematical branch of physics , concerned with relations of heat and work , and conservation of energy really functions in it not as a law but as an axiom : as one of the bases for the deductive , mathematical system . |
| 18 | Not just as a , not just a song that we 're singing at the end of a sermon but as a prayer , yes , here I am Lord ! |
| 19 | The Irishman was working another establishment she called at , the Lights of Lisbon , only he was employed not as a waiter but as a pianist in the bar . |
| 20 | I suppose it is a spectator sport of a sort but from the operator 's viewpoint the presence of uninitiated onlookers has a great number of debit points . |
| 21 | Section 18 penalizes the possession of a firearm with intent to commit a crime or to resist arrest : this is a more specific variation of section 16 , catering for the defence that the firearm was being carried for use in a robbery but with no intention that it would actually be used to endanger anyone , only to frighten — that would be a section 18 offence . |
| 22 | The documents here are proposed for use not as a sword but as a shield ; this is hardly a floodgate situation . |
| 23 | You thus come into the activity as the central person — not on the edge of the outside fringe of a circle but as the instigator , the person with expertise to offer . |
| 24 | It was a small room with a bar , originally a shop but with the window boarded up . |
| 25 | There is another way of understanding the cold war , not as a conflict but as a kind of collusion , although the term ‘ collusion ’ perhaps implies too much conscious purpose . |
| 26 | As she mingled with the guests at the Queen 's Scottish home she realized that she was no longer treated as a person but as a position , no longer a flesh and blood human being with thoughts and feelings but a symbol where the very title ‘ Her Royal Highness , the Princess of Wales ’ distanced her not only from the wider public but from those within the intimate royal circle . |
| 27 | The title Kirkby Hill Races is something of a misnomer , as it refers not to a race but to an election . |
| 28 | As SSC has only consultative , not decision-making status , this means that a recommendation will go to F&S not from SSC as a whole but from the Board members who sit on both SSC and F&S , and . |
| 29 | Critical analysis , one student journal proclaimed , ‘ generally produces results more significant than the best creative work now being written , ’ a judgement offered not as a complaint but as a boast : |
| 30 | I told them I was transexual … maybe that was a mistake because the prosecution service laid the charges for an attack not on a woman but on a man |