Example sentences of "but a [noun sg] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In China and Tibet , the Dragon is but a transposition of the Serpent . |
| 2 | Most of our testers considered the driving position and seats close to perfect , but a couple of the taller specimens would have appreciated some sort of steering wheel adjustment to play off comfort against a clear view of the instruments . |
| 3 | All but a couple of the bidders were too preoccupied to notice the latecomers . |
| 4 | Yeah , we went through these stories , and tried to link all different things they go under , got attitudes , weight , sex , exploitation , memories , mother and child relationships , old fashioned settings , aspirations , working women , ageism , husband and wife , loneliness , change , working in middle upper classes , racism and grief , and then , we started again , through the stories giving numbers , and putting them under the headings we thought they came under , but the thing is , we 've got a lot of them under all , well not all the headings , but a couple of the headings . |
| 5 | The question was ‘ how ’ and not ‘ whether ’ ; and what was required of them was not a justification of the ends , but a formulation of the means . |
| 6 | That afternoon when I arrived at Miss Havisham 's house , it was n't Estella who opened the gate , but a cousin of the old lady 's . |
| 7 | This is not idle City gossip , but a sample of the detail to emerge from City Lives , an oral history of the City and part of the National Life Story Collection ( NLSC ) at the British Library 's National Sound Archive ( NSA ) . |
| 8 | Ingarden is keen to emphasize that the delight evoked by such positive culminations is not the essential component of aesthetic experience but a by-product of the activity of discovery , of experiencing an achieved harmony and valuing it in an emotional , contemplative way . |
| 9 | But a battle of the bands is preferable any day to the Battle of the Boyne or what has increasingly become a battle on the streets . |
| 10 | Darcy was out on the links in Jersey yesterday and unable to come to the phone , but a member of the team of architects working on the project dismisses fears that the site will be ruined . |
| 11 | A strongly aromatic , somewhat bitter-tasting plant , cotton lavender is not a lavender at all , but a member of the daisy family . |
| 12 | But a member of the cynical tendency jeers that after all this brouhaha , a Prime Minister who 's obsessed with political safety , will only allow minor pain , though back benchers will be encouraged to squeal so as to impress the markets . |
| 13 | This is not a marsupial , but a member of the group of egg-laying mammals , the monotremes , so remote from us that marsupials are our close cousins by comparison . |
| 14 | But a member of the Richmond Small Bore Rifle and Pistol Club said : ‘ These politicians are placing the emphasis on the wrong people . |
| 15 | Their eyes were ancient , filled with the wisdom of their long lives , and their shapes were not quite Tree and not quite Human , but a blend of the two . |
| 16 | Certainly it was never specifically referred to but a reading of the judgment would , I apprehend , ground an argument that the judge , having found that the appellants were in contempt and knew at all relevant times of the existence of the order against them , was in a position to exercise the discretion that he was given . |
| 17 | When one reads and analyses the admirable report , one discovers a number of threats — the importation of foreign coal , the question of how the board will react to privatisation and the Government 's Rothschild report which is not , in fact , a report but a slaughter of the coal industry . |
| 18 | A strategy for handling toxic wastes is beginning to emerge , because of EEC directives , but a quarter of the wastes produced by the Republic can not be accounted for . |
| 19 | In our opinion , the novel hypothesis of Hurley is not a reappraisal of the role of endotoxins , but a reappraisal of the bacterial form giving rise to those endotoxins — ie , possibly L-forms . |
| 20 | This was but a resumé of the botanical part of a much more detailed work to follow in due course . |
| 21 | But a friend of the pair said : ‘ They are very much in love , but take their acting careers very seriously and are determ-nined to succeed . |
| 22 | Media : Return of the six-gun saga : Modern actors can not ride and young viewers do not understand the cowboy code , but a revival of the western looms on the horizon , John Lichfield says |
| 23 | This is no humdrum bundle of fiscal adjustments , but a bonfire of the old dogma . |
| 24 | Ushering her into the office , Sophie offered coffee , but a shake of the head was Dawn 's only response . |
| 25 | This is but a tip of the formidable Octoberfest iceberg . |
| 26 | The maple sits on a body of Honduras mahogany , another favourite of the Gibson company — expensive and exclusive , but a reflection of the golden era on which Hamer have based their design philosophy . |
| 27 | Its not a case of backing all the horses to ensure you win , Allen insists , but a reflection of the heterogeneous nature of corporate computing needs . |
| 28 | It was they who made very clear how the body is but a reflection of the life force within it . |
| 29 | Second , most lawyers take on cases on the basis that they will not ask for an upfront fee , but a percentage of the amount of damages won instead — often as much as 40% . |
| 30 | The answer is not merely a description of the event but a description of the relationship of signifying elements presented with their decoded meaning , thus : |