Example sentences of "but [adv] [prep] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This functionalist style views law not as a phenomenon which exists on an altogether different plane to government but rather as an instrument which is part of the apparatus of government . |
| 2 | Gramsci saw the dichotomy between the two not as a centre-periphery relationship but rather as an aspect of the way in which the interests of monopoly capital used the state to keep the undeveloped areas repressed and passive ; Gramsci describes the south variously as ‘ a semi-colonial market ’ , a ‘ source of savings and taxes ’ and a ‘ pool of cheap docile reserve labour ’ . |
| 3 | This has nothing to do with NHS reforms but rather with an excess of tender concern on my part . |
| 4 | And not a thing of beauty , but rather like an ex-pugilist . |
| 5 | We wanted , on the whole , to be good , not just through fear of punishment , but perhaps with an element of pride . |
| 6 | Where you find those two provisions you construe the document , not as a release , but merely as an undertaking not to sue a particular individual , and the result is that the right to proceed against the co-debtor is reserved and can be put in force against him . |
| 7 | Sailing craft can not sail directly into the wind but only at an angle of 45 degrees to it . |
| 8 | After that for six days little smoke columns seemed to be sprouting up all over the forest , now here , now there , but only for an hour or two . |
| 9 | This is done in Appendix C , but to anticipate briefly , the reasons depend in essence on two facts : ( a ) Whenever a property is qualified it remains a property , so that e.g. ( P P ) P reduces to P P ; ( b ) The property of an adjective can not normally be applied to another property-word but only to an E. Thus while ( P E ) P reduces from a purely structural point of view to P P , it needs to be treated as a distinct pattern when the final P is an adjective , since , unless the E can be taken into account , the structure will be literally incoherent . |
| 10 | Compensation for cross boundary flows suffered from a number of flaws and disincentives : a Compensation was not made in cash but only as an adjustment to a district 's RAWP target after a two-year time lag . |
| 11 | I was not interesting in myself , but only as an example . |
| 12 | Research revealed that people were prepared to buy raisins , but only as an ingredient for the store cupboard . |
| 13 | Should you still be unable to contact Matron , go to the Lower Office but only in an emergency . |
| 14 | Marchbank was , first and foremost , a designer , not a journalist ; Al Clark had some journalistic experience , but not as an editor ; nobody had any great confidence in the man Branson had appointed as publisher , Greg Thain . |
| 15 | [ This observation is in accord with the classic theological understanding of creation , which sees God as the ground and support of all that is ( in our terms , the guarantor of the Schrödinger equation ) but not as an object among objects ( no collapser of wavepackets ) . ] |
| 16 | ‘ But not as an estate agent ? ’ |
| 17 | The Foreign Minister was Nguyen Tuong Tam who had been in south China but not as an associate of Ho Chi Minh ( he fled from Hanoi in June 1946 ) . |
| 18 | This is correct as a statement of fact , but not as an analysis of the logic behind their success . |
| 19 | Genuine covert work , perhaps ; but not without an element of cinema . |
| 20 | In his buoyant narrative style , his particularly exact , observant eye for detail , his confident concentration on a particular event coloured by emotion but not by an intensity of analysis , he offers a significant contrast to Conrad 's dense , probing accounts of similar events . |
| 21 | Capra 's film was to be one of the most successful , acclaimed , and important films in the depression period because it was firmly set in contemporary America , but not in an America preoccupied with social problems . |
| 22 | The vast majority of working-class women worked , but not in an occupation shared by husbands or fathers . |
| 23 | The language apart , Leonard also seems to have been drawn towards the scandal-provoking propensities of the social catalysts as well as their revolutionary emphases ; drawn towards them , at times suggesting some involvement with them , but always as an outsider to their cause ; never a fully committed revolutionary himself . |
| 24 | This , it is to be assumed , his liberal readers may take seriously as a threat , but hardly as an option . |
| 25 | Such efforts , like the one supported by Kurt Schmoke , the mayor of Baltimore , build on programmes from parts of Europe and Australia which treat drug-taking not as a criminal matter , but more as an issue of personal choice and public health . |
| 26 | He offered it to Coffin , not as a prize , but more as an afterthought . |
| 27 | In 1924 , Leese joined the British Fascists , but more as an anti-socialist and anti-semite , and his Stamford group soon broke away from the mainstream Fascist movement . |
| 28 | It now hopes for a future in the software design and systems integration market for massively parallel systems , but aside from an image processing library has no obvious product ready , and would not elucidate further . |
| 29 | Although in the case of learning disabilities he accepted that he was dealing with congenital conditions incapable of radical improvement , his regimen called not only for humane treatment but also for an appreciation that disabled people deserved special understanding because of their superior spiritual status . |
| 30 | At the least , Swegen 's victories are likely to have owed something not only to his doubtless considerable abilities as a commander , but also to an administration capable of utilising resources effectively and controlling the country in his absence . |