Example sentences of "be a [adj] but [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taplow was supposed to be a Lutheran but the prisoner said he believed in Purgatory . |
| 2 | The letter may well be a fake but the worrying fact is that it proves there is a dirty tricks campaign designed to blacken the name of the Princess . |
| 3 | The publishing history of Mills and Boon emulates precisely that of the developments in mass market publishing in Europe and America ; it may be an extreme but the dating of shifts in their ownership and distribution structure conforms to the major historical changes in the publishing industry . |
| 4 | For individual A , her own income is a good but the other person 's income is a bad , reflecting the presence of malice towards B. ( Envy is increasing marginal disutility of the other person 's income . ) |
| 5 | There are one or two clerks , er that have male , purely because it 's , it 's their job anyway , and er the chief clerk headquarters is a male but the majority of them now are women yep , and they do well er , headquarters staff do it very well I think , that side of it . |
| 6 | Above the nave arcade is a clerestory but no triforium ( 300 ) . |