Example sentences of "no [adj] [noun] but [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No occupied France but a target into Germany . |
| 2 | But , while working from the premise that rugby league ‘ is incomparably superior to any other winter game ’ , this is no emotional treatise but an intelligent , dispassionate examination of the game in relation to its environment , to art and to other sports . |
| 3 | The villa was no palatial country-house but a small working farm — at least , that is how it appeared until the final season . |
| 4 | There are no outstanding houses but the lines of brick houses grouped around the central green and round smaller greens in other parts of the village form a pleasing composition . |
| 5 | An erect abdominal x ray showed no free gas but a presumptive diagnosis of perforation was made . |
| 6 | No ghostly intervention but a most subtle assassin . ’ |
| 7 | The closer the Gnostics stood to orthodoxy , the more likely they were to wish to infiltrate the catholic community ; this was especially the case among the Manichees , but they could be detected by their refusal to drink of the eucharistic cup ( since they regarded wine as an invention of the devil ) and to make the sign of the cross ( since to them the suffering of Jesus was no actual event but a symbol for the universal condition of the human race ) . |
| 8 | Oh , I had no real evidence but a certain wariness , a feeling of unease . |
| 9 | There 's no established path but the ground is not too difficult . |
| 10 | Perhaps his aspect was a function of those involutes of memory of which I have spoken ; and his combination of these attributes , the brutish apparel of the Malay , the features of a bibulous beadle and his predilection for opium were no mere chance but a deep expression of my own pain ? |
| 11 | This is no mere coincidence but an indication of the antiquity of knowledge among the Gaels who cultivated these plants dose to almost every house they built . |
| 12 | What is in fashion — among literary critics and judges of prizes — is a curious form of esotericism , whereby the novelist reminds us that he is no mere novelist but an extraordinary intelligence as well . |
| 13 | In contrast patients subjected to sclerotherapy showed no early mortality but a steady decline in survival in the first two years . |
| 14 | She could feel no personal flavour but a dirty undertow of fear . |
| 15 | Again , there are no national figures but a number of local studies indicate a high incidence of certain physical and sensory impairments amongst black and Asian communities ; the high incidence of sickle cell anaemia and thalassaemia among people of Caribbean and Mediterranean origin is also well known . |
| 16 | As one of them related to Yakovlev , he had tried to get straw from his brother in a nearby village when he ran out of lighting-fuel , but officials had stopped him , since he was stealing ‘ from the poor … there 's sucilizm ( sic ) for you ’ , Ivanovka Soviet on the other hand was managed by no obvious clique , and the very few rich peasants had no general influence in the village , which contained no poor households but a lot of middling ones . |
| 17 | There are no genital slits but the genital plate has two branches : a long one lying adjacent to the arm and a slightly shorter one lying adjacent to that with only a small slit between them . |
| 18 | Annabelle Apsion 's Ellie Dunn is no romantic dreamer but a tough pragmatist in white muslin weaving dance-patterns in front of Boss Mangan like a Sussex Salome . |
| 19 | Perhaps because of the coral reefs , as now , there had been no tidal wave but the force of the wind had driven the sea inland , thirty feet deep in Belpan City . |
| 20 | There are no initial charges but an annual management fee of 1% is payable . |
| 21 | For the regulationists history , to use a delightful phrase of Aglietta 's , is ‘ innovatory ’ : there is no cyclical repetition but a succession of phases which only emerge and come to an end as a resuIt of their own characteristics and particular historical circumstances . |
| 22 | There were no anti-aircraft missiles but the soldiers erected large bamboos to deceive the Japs . |
| 23 | Athelstan knew it would make no immediate difference but a seed had been planted in his soul . |
| 24 | A light touch , no excessive ambition but an evident enthusiasm , produced a masterpiece . |
| 25 | ‘ You are doing well , Kaptan , ’ I told him , which was a strange thing to say , when this was no co-operative venture but a kidnapping in which his complicity and enthusiasm were hardly assured . |
| 26 | Many , probably most , submitted schemes have little or no conservation implications but the attitude of the Committee to agricultural development schemes may be a factor explaining why extremely few schemes have been objected to by the NPA . |
| 27 | The qualifying 20s. was no arbitrary figure but the maximum ( 16s. + 4s. for livery ) laid down for a common servant in husbandry by the wage-regulation act of 1515 . |
| 28 | It provided for ( i ) free movement of goods , services and labour ; ( ii ) a common monetary system and central banking system ; ( iii ) no federal taxation but a unified tax rate for taxes common to all republics ; ( iv ) agreed limits to republics ' budget deficits and a community budget which would not be allowed to have a deficit ; and ( v ) price reform , with controlled prices for key goods and services . |
| 29 | But later he awoke to his own cry as creatures from under large old moss-green rocks crawled up his legs , leeching on the white skin , wetly sucking the blood , and above him , ropes , rigging , nets , a gigantic sagging cobweb of strung and re-strung hemp lines , swayed down to trap him ( children crying ) , and wherever he looked the wide mouths of women , no other feature but the mouth , tongues thick and purple as damsons , teeth white as the flecks on fall water and hands , nails curled and black , clawing at him , at his clothes , at his chest , at his face ( children wailing ) , ripping it away , tearing the skin from the skull … |
| 30 | ( 188 ) can be compared with ( 154 ) — ( 156 ) above : make evokes the production of an effect for which the " maker " is wholly responsible , there being no other factor but the behaviour of the agent " you " involved in bringing about this effect ( contrast ( 182 ) in this respect , where room is left for other factors to intervene ) . |