Example sentences of "[is] [noun sg] but [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if it be objected that A may act first ( against B ) and explain why afterwards , whereupon B acts to C 's detriment , the answer is that it is not A's act which has caused C 's loss but the implied threat that it will be repeated . |
| 2 | In France , some food imitations are forbidden — there 's mayonnaise but no salad cream . |
| 3 | What is architecture but the memorable and effective use of space ? |
| 4 | The provision reflects that the normal remedy for misrepresentation is rescission but the excessiveness of this remedy is mitigated under s2(2) of the Act . |
| 5 | er we learnt from America that er a lot of birds that have been caught by cats , die , and everybody 's always assumed it 's shock but the Americans were doing some tests and they found it 's septicaemia from the cat 's teeth . |
| 6 | The controlling factor of acidification is pH but the main toxic substance is aluminium . |
| 7 | The reason normally given is economy but the real cause is frequently a reassertion of anti-corporate attitudes . |
| 8 | My weakness is chocolate but the occasional indulgence makes all the rest worth it . |
| 9 | In my heart I know she is mine but the uncertainty over all this is agonising . |
| 10 | In the odd invertebrate there is monogamy but no ordinary parental care : the limnorid isopods that bore into shipwood live in pairs , but the young look after themselves ; likewise , some wood-boring scolytid beetles live in pairs but have no parental care in the ordinary sense of the word — although the young may benefit from the proximity of their parents . |
| 11 | Finally the road turns away and makes a long and rough descent , with Loch Hourn dramatically in view ahead , to the few buildings of Kinlochhourn where there is life but no sign of it . |
| 12 | There is structuration but no structure , production but no product . |
| 13 | There is misrepresentation but no appropriation . |
| 14 | Here also the content is interest but the voice quality poor . |