Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [noun sg] but [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Phantom 's is obviously ebony but the Teardrop 's looks more like rosewood . |
| 2 | The result is not choice but the double shift . |
| 3 | The tensions of Sard Harker lead ultimately to the uniting of lover and beloved rather than to tragedy ; the prevailing note is not foreboding but a painful and frustrating postponement , again by the hazards of an overland journey . |
| 4 | All there is in this thunder is not relief but a revival of ‘ aethereal rumours ’ which ‘ only at nightfall … / Revive for a moment a broken Coriolanus . ’ |
| 5 | A new emotion of tingling heat and cold intermingled , and this sensation is not despair but an austere joy . |
| 6 | The term " registered land " is itself a misnomer , although we all use it , from law draftsmen downwards : what is registered , of course , is not land but the estates , interests and obligations of individuals in land . |
| 7 | Ultimately , therefore , the real issue in multimedia is not technology but the paying customer . |
| 8 | The colouring in the peacock 's tail feathers is not pigment but a reflecting material that changes colour as the light strikes it . |
| 9 | Then it is not scepticism but a withdrawal from reality . |
| 10 | The most radical possible objection to the argument from pleasure is not scepticism but the counterclaim that pleasure is evil , which condemns as wrong any choice in favour of the enjoyable . |
| 11 | At this level science is not science but a series of best guesses . |
| 12 | " If a man loves me " , Jesus taught , " he will keep my word , and my Father will love him , and we will come to him and make our home with him … and the word which you hear is not mine but the Father 's who sent me . " |
| 13 | It is not automation but the failure to automate that risks jobs . |
| 14 | What fires them is n't ambition but a sense of bitterness . |