Example sentences of "[noun sg] but [prep] a [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now to be ‘ orientated ’ is widely seen not as helpful guidance but as a test one has to submit to . |
| 2 | And I had a script but after a while you do n't you set that aside and use your own style . |
| 3 | In 1604 he made an apparently excellent marriage but within a year his wife revealed her reversion to Catholicism , whereupon their estates were soon either sold or sequestrated . |
| 4 | At the ensuing parliament in April 1254 clerical proctors armed with plenary powers did attend and offered a grant but on a condition which the king found unacceptable : that he should remedy their grievances . |
| 5 | His congregations were mostly small shopkeepers and artisans who respected him not only as a preacher and writer but as a man who had himself worked with his hands . |
| 6 | Hannah is obviously a natural musician , although the aforementioned modesty forbids her to agree with that assessment But as a child she quickly learned to play both piano and organ with none of the pain and stress often endured by most youngsters , even those with natural skills . |
| 7 | THE title Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistlestop Cafe ( Columbia Tristar , PG , out now ) may be a bit of an unappetising mouthful but as a movie it is gourmet fare . |
| 8 | Although there was not one single reason why Harry might suddenly see her not as a sister or friend but as a woman he might fall in love with , deep down inside she still hoped that this unlikely miracle could occur . |
| 9 | After years he had lost his oldest and best friend but in a way he had always despised friendship ; families were what mattered , more particularly that larger version of himself — his family ; and while seated in the same scheming fury he saw each individual member gradually slipping away out of his reach . |
| 10 | The abdominal ganglia are variable in number ; in Machilis and in many larvae there are eight ganglia in the abdomen but as a rule there are fewer . |
| 11 | It is a lazy movement but in an instant it is gone . |
| 12 | Miriam:Soto is my mother tongue but as a rule we do n't use the African languages when we write because if you do so you run the risk of getting into the trap of the system . |
| 13 | The murderous instincts of the sex war lead not to union but to a fragmentation which destroys the ability to comprehend life on any normal level , |
| 14 | And the N U S , you know it is , in a way it is a good thing but in a way it is n't because when they were actual when they actually belonged to the N U S erm they were n't get because it 's a small university , they were n't getting much funding from the US er the N U S or erm any support really . |
| 15 | Debenham & Freebody 's of Wigmore Street did so in 1920 , but not for tardy payment of a long outstanding account but for an order which the customer denied had ever been given . |
| 16 | The tenancy was not from year to year but for a term which would continue until Matlodge certified that it was ready to proceed with the development of the property . |
| 17 | But in a reply to a letter from prospective Stockton South Labour MP John Scott , a senior ambulance officer says : ‘ The account was submitted not to the patient but to a relative whose name and address were given to us at the time of the booking . |
| 18 | Whether the action was heard by a consul or by one of the praetores fideicommissarii , in either case it was not an action of the formulary system but of a kind which lay beyond that system ; the involvement of magistrates in assessing the cases was therefore known as cognitio extra ordinem . |
| 19 | Britain 's church life has been compared not to a virgin landscape but to a garden which has been planted already . |
| 20 | Alan Webb says he 's always been interested in boats and when he took it up started going to marinas and out to sea but after a while he wanted to go faster and have more fun |
| 21 | The study by Arnoult ( 1953 ) , mentioned in the preceding section of this chapter , included a condition in which the subjects were tested not on a discriminative motor task but on a task which required them to make a judgement about whether two stimuli presented together were the same as or different from one another . |