Example sentences of "a [adj] but [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early seventies the court ( and the bazaar ) buzzed with stories that the Shah had fallen in love , not with a European but with a nineteen-year-old Iranian girl with dyed blond hair . |
| 2 | The Harlequin man pursed his lips and sucked in his cheeks not in a cadaverous but in a speculative , mischievous style which nevertheless bespoke some fatal intent . |
| 3 | When the Newcastle goalkeeper rose to his feet after treatment , Mr Jones chose to re-start play not with a free-kick but with a drop-ball inside the penalty area . |
| 4 | If there is such a thing as a simulation in the same relation to suffering as imagination to perception , it is in response not to a real but to a fictitious situation ; it is the emotion of the actor revelling in the part of a tragic hero . |
| 5 | She may have to find her young not from a dozen but from a million . |
| 6 | The Briton would presumably have also been issued with a name-badge but with a British horror of self-advertisement had taken it off the moment he could . |
| 7 | Its difficult to go beyond normal scepticism and see this huge number not just as a potential but as a reality . ’ |
| 8 | It is obviously important that we should have some clear idea about the nature of the phenomenon as an aspect of language not just as a preliminary but as a prerequisite for determining how it should figure in pedagogy . |
| 9 | It is tempting to think of Rolle not as a mystic but as a charismatic or pentecostal Christian . |