Example sentences of "such but " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then home viewing has largely taken over from cinema going but there does not seem to have been much criticism of the format as such but perhaps more so the screen size . |
| 2 | One of them was sentenced to be burned alive , and the other hanged , punishments dictated , apparently , not by their sexuality as such but their transvestism and use of the dildo — at once , I want to suggest , appropriations of masculinity , inversions of it , and substitutions for it . |
| 3 | For Oakeshott the ‘ rationalist ’ error is the equation of reason which technique , and thus the problem is not the use of reason in politics as such but a misidentification of what constitutes reason . |
| 4 | The three great defectors , Nureyev ( 1961 ) , Makarova ( 1970 ) and Baryshnikov ( 1974 ) came West not for political reasons as such but because Russian dance was in a straitjacket . |
| 5 | Where André Malraux has stated that modern art is becoming an ‘ interrogation of the world ’ ( Malraux 1950 : 151 ) , the writers under discussion here do not abandon plot as such but interrogate the very means they are using to structure their works . |
| 6 | Until very recently the paediatricians did not concern themselves with pain as such but adopted the direct approach of seeking to locate diseased tissue and to restore that tissue . |
| 7 | After more than a hundred years of the recognition of industrial picketing as a democratic mechanism the official Code of Practice issued by the Department of Employment says : ‘ There is no legal ‘ right to picket ’ as such but peaceful picketing has long been recognised as lawful . ’ |
| 8 | To summarise therefore , the teaching of Jesus on this subject is intimately bound up with his establishment of the Kingdom : it is not a condemnation of wealth as such but a much-needed perspective on the material world in an age of materialism . |
| 9 | The latter term describes a truer form of knowledge based not on ideas as such but ideas about real forms of existence , that is ‘ materialism ’ . |
| 10 | This is a result of their field of interest not being in language as such but in cultural forms ( myths , literature , etc . ) . |
| 11 | They may not bite as such but simply close their jaws around your hand for a few moments . |
| 12 | Institutions must be considered within the general context of the industrial relations system of which they are an integral part … [ given that ] the point of departure of international comparison can not be an institution as such but must be the function it carries out . |
| 13 | Regan argues , at careful and considerable length , that Rawls is inconsistent here ; that his duty to animals is in reality an indirect one owed not to animals as such but only to self-interested individuals who have purposes that include animals ( 1983 : 163–74 ) . |
| 14 | In the early 1970s this led Weiskrantz and Warrington ( see Parkin 1987 ) to argue that the human deficit was not a failure of memory as such but a deficit in retrieval brought about by undue interference from incorrect items at the time of recall . |
| 15 | The generic label ‘ poststructuralist ’ is here useful merely as a shorthand to designate those contemporary writers who share not a hostility to history as such but a distrust of simple historicisms . |
| 16 | In the first instance , therefore , he focuses not on history as such but on the related problem of hermeneutics and historical understanding : history here becomes a problem of meaning and interpretation — ‘ the age already in the past is in fact constituted in every respect as a text ’ . |
| 17 | The Convention is confined to international financial leasing , that is , to leasing which in economic terms is equivalent to a sale or purchase-money loan , the equipment being leased to a single lessee at whose request it was bought and the rentals being fixed not by reference to the use-value of the equipment as such but at a level which , taking into account cash-flows , tax-reliefs , and the like , will guarantee to the lessor the reim-bursement of his capital costs and desired return on capital . |
| 18 | The problem is not length as such but the infrequency and brevity of meetings at which the scientific work is conducted , a point to which I shall return towards the end of this paper . |
| 19 | Moreover , most attention was paid not to the conditions of work as such but to the moral and spiritual degradation said to accompany female employment . |
| 20 | Alternatively there may be no marks as such but simply a set of grades to which the quality of pupils ' work may be assigned directly . |
| 21 | It is not disturbance as such but uncontrollable disturbance which leads to uncertainty . |
| 22 | Israel did not want Sinai as such but insisted on the military security of its southern borders . |
| 23 | We therefore ask the assembly today to authorize the panel to prepare a leaflet explaining the church 's position to parents who are not communicant members and who are not willing to become such but who neverth s still which baptism for their child . |
| 24 | Ask a French Basque about the violent activities over the border in Navarre and he or she will in my experience be unsympathetic , not towards separatism as such but towards the sometimes murderous way in which it is being sought . |
| 25 | In Nigeria they are called Medical Extension Officers as they feel that they are not assistants as such but great contributors to health care . |
| 26 | Locus standi to argue for a relisting would seemingly not require a fresh certificate as it would not constitute an appeal as such but an application to the House to exercise an inherent jurisdiction to re-open an appeal , analogous to that developed by the Court of Appeal , in order to do justice under the scheme of the Criminal Appeal Act 1968 . |
| 27 | For the real mystery at the core of his paintings is not the ‘ idea ’ as such but , as with any other artist , the way it has been painted . |
| 28 | The principle appears to be related not to the Crown as such but to the Crown when performing a particular function . |
| 29 | It is common ground that Winchester was an appointed representative of Norwich and as such but not otherwise was an exempted person . |
| 30 | The party 's ‘ new political thinking ’ , by contrast , recognised the existence of a complex and contradictory world in which there were threats to the survival of humanity as such but also great opportunities for coexistence and cooperation . |