Example sentences of "[noun sg] but [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The AJR is not itself a remedy but rather a procedural umbrella under which any of the prerogative orders can be sought . |
| 2 | Louise was French and luscious , as every male in the district between the ages of fourteen and eighty-four would testify — most from wishful thinking but quite a number from experience . |
| 3 | Bolinger ( 1974 : 86-7 ) seems to side with Palmer and Higgenbotham , for he maintains that the to infinitive evokes not a perception but rather a fact : The passive tends to be used in situations where the interest is not in perceptions but in impersonal facts — for example , in the testimony of a witness who says He was seen to stoop over and pick up some object , and then stuff it in his pocket . |
| 4 | Likewise in ( 36 ) saw evokes not mere visual perception but rather an inference which the speaker has drawn about the character of the people in question on the basis of what he has been able to observe of their behaviour or even of their appearance , and so could be said by someone who had only seen a photograph of them . |
| 5 | She believes that what makes the South different from the rest of America is not just a matter of perception but almost a physical phenomenon . |
| 6 | The proposed cuts had led to talk of its closure but today a reprieve was announced . |
| 7 | So called keyhole surgery is being hailed as the way most operations will be carried out in the future but only a minority of surgeons can actually do it . |
| 8 | This was no PR prank but just a genuine and touching gesture by Campese . |
| 9 | There 's a considerable saving in buying hooks in bulk but only a small percentage of anglers make use of this facility . |
| 10 | It has been argued that the communist utopia is not a scientific prediction but merely a projection of the ‘ wish-images ’ of those who adopt a Marxist position . |
| 11 | They suggest that the deterioration may be even greater than was apparent from our study as they found not only an appreciable and continuing decline in sperm concentration but also an increased percentage of morphologically abnormal and immotile sperm . |
| 12 | A recent large randomised study in India found no such effect but rather an apparent slight excess of deaths in the supplemented group . |
| 13 | A lavish welcome had been laid on by Mr Smith — not just a teddy bear but also a Rolls Royce . |
| 14 | To make a contribution towards this end requires not only knowledge of alternatives and commitment to putting them into practice but also an understanding of how social policy is made and implemented . |
| 15 | She felt no fear but only a strange sort of companionship with the creatures who populated the forest night . |
| 16 | She felt no fear but only a strange sort of companionship with the creatures who populated the forest night . |
| 17 | By totalization , therefore , Sartre does not here mean anything like a predetermined end or final closure of a totality but rather a process of mediation among the parts , where each is determined by the other . |
| 18 | The housewife is not only a chef but also a washer up , a cleaner , a nanny , a childminder : |
| 19 | Scrapers : Another basic aid but nevertheless an indispensable tool particularly for heavy cleaning . |
| 20 | Paddy Murphy and Jimmy Keenan both looked good on the sand but unfortunately an interesting choice of footwear ( none at all ! ) led to Dugdale 's retirement with some of the best blisters I 've even seen ! |
| 21 | When we went ashore , the transport was not always an air-conditioned coach but sometimes a rickety taxi , a horse cab or even a farm trailer hauled by a tractor . |
| 22 | In practice , the best combination of instruments for a particular procedure is largely a matter of trial and error but once a simple technique , such as the two-instrument injection method , has been mastered the principles of making and setting up extra instruments will be self-evident . |
| 23 | The Australians have not only a pavilion but also a reproduction outback sheep farm , complete with windmill . |
| 24 | Men in the West seem to fear this dichotomy , although it is not a separation but more a reorganisation of life so that the spiritual gains the most important part and the rest of life falls into place beneath . |
| 25 | Out of this theory it also follows that the uniqueness of each individual construct system necessarily means that there can be no straightforward response to a stimulus but only a multiplicity of interpretations . |
| 26 | And it was all compounded by a feeling not just of loneliness but more a sense of abandonment , as all the families she had known since childhood began to leave Baldersdale . |
| 27 | A tall order with many quality filter systems starting at prices up in the £200/300 price bracket but fortuitously a high performance filter had just come onto the market at an affordable price . |
| 28 | Nevertheless he is uniquely different because he is not only a hero but also a powerful magician in the tradition of many Slav and Asiatic epics . |
| 29 | A laky , housebound bow but formerly an avid attender of the sale , telephoned the church with an ‘ order ’ for Scots Magazines , Annie S.Swans , Bible Stories and jigsaws . |
| 30 | It gives them greater job mobility but also a large number of people aged in their 20s who would not have had a pension now have them . |