Example sentences of "a [adj] but the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A little later , to the time of the ‘ Polygnotan ’ red-figure vases , belongs a very small piece , not a cup-interior but the slightly domed surface of a covered cup ( fig. 112 ; one can just see the orifice for drinking at the bottom ) . |
| 2 | They were trying to back it into a stable but the magnificent beast was all set to charge . |
| 3 | all of our paid fors have er , done very well this year in circulation terms all but two of them have increased their circulation in the first half , despite quite high price rises , for instance the York county newspaper , the weekly there , we have a daily but the weekly there went up by five P and the weekly in Bath where again we have a daily that went up by six P . |
| 4 | It was seen as a one-off but the rest of the band recognised Solowka 's zeal . |
| 5 | There are one or two clerks , er that have male , purely because it 's , it 's their job anyway , and er the chief clerk headquarters is a male but the majority of them now are women yep , and they do well er , headquarters staff do it very well I think , that side of it . |
| 6 | Taplow was supposed to be a Lutheran but the prisoner said he believed in Purgatory . |
| 7 | The letter may well be a fake but the worrying fact is that it proves there is a dirty tricks campaign designed to blacken the name of the Princess . |
| 8 | The Medical Research Council 's Common Cold Research Unit showed that it is not the person who gets caught in the rain or sits in a draught who is likely to develop a cold but the one who has to work in the air-conditioned , centrally-heated , artificially-lit atmosphere found in many modern office blocks . |
| 9 | We all carried a key but the boxes were a long way apart . |
| 10 | Instead , the logical policy is to tax consumption , at a rate which reflects not the disposal cost of a good but the costs which would be inflicted on society if it were illegally dumped . |
| 11 | For individual A , her own income is a good but the other person 's income is a bad , reflecting the presence of malice towards B. ( Envy is increasing marginal disutility of the other person 's income . ) |
| 12 | Again it is fine to add such a trim but the fewer you put on the more attractive they look . |
| 13 | Dot did n't have a milk-mug but the teacher lent her one . |
| 14 | Formal observation techniques and equipment are designed to reduce this discrepancy to a minimum but the nursing process depends on much more than can be obtained by this means ; therefore it is important for the teacher to have some understanding of the factors that affect the formation of percepts so that she can help the nurse to make accurate judgements where these are possible and to be sufficiently receptive and mentally flexible to consider more than one possible judgement as basis for action . |
| 15 | The use of steam and high temperature means the loss of nutrients is kept to a minimum but the flavour , colour and texture of the food are maintained . |
| 16 | A tall man with an exoskeleton frightened her by demanding a retina-scan but the contacts in her eyes apparently passed muster because he let her through . |
| 17 | Because recentralization of business my be a correct and and fashionable philosophy or perhaps one that is no longer fashionable I do n't know it still needs we believe a global approach a coherent approach to tie these things together so the organization can not only get the benefit of responsiveness and flexibility at a departmental but the leverage to exploit that information on behalf of the organization as a whole . |