Example sentences of "the [noun sg] but a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority but a declining proportion of people eventually marry . |
| 2 | The captain , of Warren Cottage , Acton Turville , Badminton , would not comment after the case but a member of his legal team said an appeal was planned . |
| 3 | She had been led to believe this was the case but a phone call from the office of Mr Ian Frost , regional director of Inntrepreneur , part of Grand Met , said the meeting would be in Tadcaster or Halifax . |
| 4 | Fast , tough and as ruthless as necessary on the field but a gentle , quietly-spoken , humorous man in his ordinary life . |
| 5 | Sara was n't in the kitchen but a voice behind him said : ‘ You wanted me , Superintendent ? ’ |
| 6 | State radio said unidentified ‘ foreign forces ’ had attacked the camp but an underground radio station said Togolese dissidents were responsible . |
| 7 | Furthermore , Macbeth did not murder Duncan in his palace of Cawdor in Nairn , since the castle there was not built until the fourteenth century ; and Duncan was not the pitiable old greybeard portrayed in the play but a ruthless and ambitious man regarded by many as a usurper . |
| 8 | It will not be a Coalition in the ordinary sense of the term but a co-operation of individuals . |
| 9 | In the 1978 student elections at Birzeit the Islamic bloc won only 3 per cent of the vote but a year later , inspired by Khomeini 's victory , it won 43 per cent . |
| 10 | It means that the starting point for the plan is not a strategic concept of the future but an assessment of the resources of the present . |
| 11 | No-one from the club was prepared to comment on the demonstration but an insider said a board meeting is due to be held on Tuesday . |
| 12 | Ahlbrandt found a strong attachment to the neighbourhood but a low percentage of residents ( 57 per cent ) expressing a feeling that East Allegheny was a good or excellent place in which to live . |
| 13 | Tyroglyphus , harmless to the vine but a deadly enemy of Phylloxera vastatrix , was imported in 1873 in an attempt to kill off the pest ; unfortunately , however , unlike phylloxera , Tyroglyphus did not care for the European climate and failed to settle . |
| 14 | In an article entitled ‘ Two Problems in Legal History ’ ( 1908 ) 24 L.Q.R. 392 , W. C. Bolland has pointed out that this was not only an order of the Sovereign but an Act by the Parliament , since it is in the Parliament Rolls and under the authority of Parliament . |
| 15 | There was nothing , there was nothing in the mail but a chequebook . |
| 16 | An electric fan will cool the engine but a thermostatically controlled switch A mechanical fan is more reliable for long slogs as it can move more cooling air |
| 17 | The surface of the etch-resist ink might wash off in the developer but a layer of ink can still be left on the board , because the UV light has not had enough time to penetrate all the way through the resist . |
| 18 | Ordinary people who have been awarded ‘ less important ’ decorations like the British Empire Medal may well find it pinned on their chest not by the Queen but a lord lieutenant in the form of a retired colonel or minor baronet . |
| 19 | That 's been er er a matter which has been erm discussed er at some length by Stragg as has the topic of er house building and the the problems of er capacity for er new house instruction and other development within the , the Council but a number of erm matters er not least of which has been er the departure of two key members of staff during the period er there has er I 'm afraid been a degree of slippage and the original programme that we have put to you and which you agreed which we said at the time was ambitious er is already er showing signs of stress and it looks now I 'm afraid that it will not be er in the early part of the summer that the structure plan in draft form will be available and ready to be approved for consultation purposes , but towards the end of the summer and er er into the early autumn . |
| 20 | In my view what is needed is not abolition of the audit but a simplified format , less compliance reporting and an audit certificate which enables auditors to explain in greater detail what they have done and to spell out those areas they are not satisfied with , and why . |
| 21 | First comes the inner experience of a spiritual reality described as a door opening to reveal not only the face of the Beloved but a way of love by which he can be reached ( 15.92 ) . |
| 22 | In this case the " no " decision is not a positive rejection of the proposal but an inadequacy of temptation which might also be regarded as a lack of enterprise . |
| 23 | Government ministers portrayed him ‘ not only as a champion of the law but a defender of the rights of workers not to unionise ’ ( Scraton , 1985b:158 ) . |
| 24 | The project requires a flexible approach , demanding not only an analysis of the law but an economic and business approach to the nature of the small business and an understanding of small business computer systems . |
| 25 | To my amazement , on locating the source of the sound I discovered not the cat but a hedgehog in the process of killing and devouring a blackbird . |
| 26 | READERS may have thought there was a superficial likeness to the mug-shot on page 5 , but this is not the Editor but a ‘ guest ’ and a quite intrepid aviator . |
| 27 | The answer seems to be that the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics means that there is not just a single history for the universe but a whole family of possible histories . |
| 28 | So the age thing is no longer the all-important factor that puts love right out of the question but a sort of cruel wall fate has built between us . |
| 29 | Practice develops the skill but a few guidelines provide possible approaches to the task . |
| 30 | For the most part they will be senior practising members of the Bar but a few may be promoted from the Circuit bench ( including , since 1 January 1990 , those who were formerly solicitors ) . |