Example sentences of "but [prep] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But for a vastly different reason . |
| 2 | She felt faint now , but for a very different reason , and she bit down hard on her lip . |
| 3 | All were firm but kind with the eagles , who were passive in return , but for a very few like Kraal who gave them as much trouble as he could . |
| 4 | ‘ But all the time , that poor line we kept hearing about was of crucial significance , but for a totally different reason ! |
| 5 | Marcus , limply , but for a perfectly decent period , took it as it was offered , and then moved on to lay a cold cheek against his mother 's . |
| 6 | The horseshoe ridge that Ben Lawers dominates can be knocked off in a single day if you have legs of iron , but for a more leisurely exploration of the hills , Glen Lyon is where to pick off Meall a' Choire Leith , Meall Garbh , and the more distant Meall Greigh that turns the horseshoe into an S-shape . |
| 7 | A small proportion of the boys — seven per cent — wanted to be fatter , but ‘ it would seem their desire to be heavier was not for fatness but for a more athletic and muscular build ’ . |
| 8 | But for a more detailed and broader perspective on internal exchange the archaeological evidence is of paramount importance , even if little research has yet been carried out . |
| 9 | Balbirnie House , near Glenrothes in Fife , set itself a double challenge when it opened in November 1989 : not only did it launch into a depressed economy , but during a traditionally poor month for Scottish hotels . |
| 10 | The rally I went to in Leicester in 1987 was neither so gross nor so damaging , but as a reasonably sympathetic onlooker , I was irritated by the frantic urgency and the artificial and inflated mood of tension , good for nobody 's judgment . |
| 11 | The development of a study of consumption may then be integrated , not as dichotomous to relations of production , nor as a universal social function , but as a continually growing element of modern culture , which must therefore play an increasingly prominent role in attempts to understand the nature of contemporary societies . |
| 12 | It is that strength , both individually and collectively , that will ensure that if the monarchy survives into the twenty-first century , it will not just be as ‘ a privileged irrelevance ’ , but as a very potent force for good . |
| 13 | One crop that seems to have flourished in the late eighteenth-century Weald was hops ; the rapid expansion of the Georgian population produced an urgent demand for more beer , not only to escape the worst features of contemporary living but as a very basic foodstuff for the poor . |
| 14 | The ‘ white ’ of the sky and clouds appears to me not as pure white , but as a very pale tone , so I start with a wash of cadmium orange fading out from the horizon upwards . |
| 15 | The contradictions of the model help explain why the transition from Francoism to democracy did not take place by a process of radical ‘ rupture ’ , but through a more consensual evolution in which elements of the regime 's own institutions and key political figures played a central role . |
| 16 | A child rated as ‘ attached ’ to its mother at nine months ( crying when she leaves the room , for example ) may express its attachment to her again at 18 months but through a quite different behavioural repertoire ( leaving mother but repeatedly checking back ) . |
| 17 | But after a little gentle persuasion , she has allowed me to tell you she is Maggie Lomas , the regular director of our main news programmed She knows me pretty well by now — after all , we 've worked together for more than 20 years , including the recent series of " At Home " programmes . |
| 18 | This implies that much of the geographer 's hydrological endeavour is directed not towards the solution of a specific hydrological problem but towards a more complete understanding of the landscape … |
| 19 | Whatever the outcome of the Higginson Committee 's inquiry may be , if we are to see a radical improvement in secondary education , we must learn to think not merely of a new form of examination ( and therefore presumably a novel kind of syllabus that will lead to it ) but of a wholly new approach to those studies that we wish to retain in the sixth forms at school , and how these studies are to relate to the pupils ' next step , when they leave school . |
| 20 | " Conversations with a Gorilla " is not the title of a children 's fairy-tale but of a supposedly scientific contribution to the National Geographic Magazine . |
| 21 | Indeed the railways created as much beauty as they inadvertently destroyed , but of a totally different kind . |
| 22 | This is not simply a matter of economic growth , although that has become increasingly important and perhaps dominant , but of a more general development of a distinctive culture and way of life which would allow the society to take its ‘ rightful ’ place as an autonomous , self-determining unit among the other nations of the world . |
| 23 | But of a more serious nature to manager Malcolm Mackintosh , is their latest injury problems . |
| 24 | But , for Canterbury , it made possible the appointment of a new prior , and Anselm appointed Ernulf , who was one of Lanfranc 's men , but of a very different stamp from his predecessor . |
| 25 | It means that Paul VI saw himself as the true heir of Pope John — but of a very different Pope John from the version usually presented to the public . |
| 26 | Embarrassment , she thought , was fear but of a very reduced kind , just as they say an itch is pain to a very mild degree . |
| 27 | I mean it seemed to me that the whole concept of an Arts Centre of that stature and calibre on campus was simply marvellous — not unique , but of a very remarkable concept — and I became , as you say , Chairman of the Gardener Centre through Aisa Briggs ' persuasion . |
| 28 | Pupils with less severe hearing impairments may also need modifications to the requirements , but of a less far-reaching nature . |
| 29 | Radcliffe-Brown was also a functionalist but of a less programmatic sort ; he developed a more sophisticated terminology and theoretical approach , and in many respects improved on Durkheim . |
| 30 | They were policy , but of a highly odd and experimental kind . |