Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [noun sg] but [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He only wished Hans were with him , not just as a drinking partner but also because he had always been the brains of the duo . |
| 2 | This has ranged from posts being created without manpower approval to trusts inventing their own titles for grades , which results in grave confusion not only from a manpower perspective but also because different titles may imply competence not possessed by the post holder . |
| 3 | Of interest in this story is the fact not only that he was forced by poverty to abandon teaching and become a kasabat kadi but also that he was able to re-enter the medrese stream . |
| 4 | Well er as I say , I 've always been a union member but then when I was self-employed it was different and I kept me fees up for a , to somewhere I do n't know what it was , but er when er yes , when er I was coming to come on me own and I went down the locksmith 's to see about it and they said er , what did they say now , they said you could n't do that , whatever it was , and er we 'll have to do this and that and the other . |
| 5 | They were contained in the liquid membrane ready to attach themselves to a copper ion but only when it had been reduced to Cu + . |