Example sentences of "[adj] but [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was strong certainly and brave but armed only with a staff he could hardly be a match for five armed men . |
| 2 | Above , a gibbous moon fought a brave but doomed battle to be seen through the scudding cloud , occasionally emerging to spill its light like a bucket of whitewash over the slates . |
| 3 | Or , finally , something may be wrong but known to someone outside the household . ’ |
| 4 | Our results were not theoretical but based on what people actually choose to do . |
| 5 | Ideas are material forces for Gramsci , and hence consciousness is not spontaneous but structured in certain ways , which correspond to the general structure of society . |
| 6 | The second version of the Insolvent Debtors Act did not prevent anyone who mismanaged his finances , or who was commendably cautious but overwhelmed by catastrophe , from being forced to spend two months in prison . |
| 7 | They are not fixed but constructed and negotiated in interaction situations . |
| 8 | Nigel was disgusted but intrigued by the lengths Eleanor had gone to . |
| 9 | A pigeon clock-shifted 6 hours early but taken through three time zones to the east would in fact behave as if it ‘ knew ’ it should home to the west , but because its compass bearings are rotated 90° clockwise ( it thinks it is midday when it is 6.00 p.m. ) , it would ‘ home ’ towards the north rather than the west . |
| 10 | Maria was silent , digesting it , slightly incredulous but forced to accept it at last . |
| 11 | Lady Dedlock , lacking the life of the affections , is not bored but frozen to death ; the Victorian angel of domestic happiness has gone to shelter beneath a humbler roof . |
| 12 | Is his work , to put it at its bluntest , a throwback to an age long past , a magnificent but doomed attempt to breathe life into fossils ? |
| 13 | She felt guilty about nagging but driven to do so . |
| 14 | The new pop music was , by contrast , mall music , shiny but confined . |
| 15 | Turin fair : not just ethical but seen to be ethical |
| 16 | " Yes , we 've got a terrible profile on repairs , " said a Coventry councillor , formerly of the Left but driven into the arms of her old protagonists on the right of the party by other Left councillors ' support for tenants . |
| 17 | Despite them the withdrawal went smoothly , with the Colonel , who had been the first man ashore , the last man off , just behind Charley Head , who , as signals officer , had kept up a stream of messages , 40 an hour at one point , that included reassuring but unproven ‘ going well ’ reports . |
| 18 | Just as thrilling but achieved in a much more orderly fashion , was Sweden 's remarkable escape against Canada in Vancouver , ( see special report on page 25 ) , where not only was Stefan Edberg , the world number one at the time , beaten by the little known , 237th ranked Daniel Nestor on the opening day but Magnus Gustafsson also had to save two match points against the Canadian hero before winning the fifth and decisive rubber from two sets to one down . |
| 19 | By 8 August he was in Barcelona , unable to speak a word of Spanish but armed with a press card . |
| 20 | If this conflict is too problematic , one feeling remains conscious and the opposing one is repressed but projected into another person who expresses it . |
| 21 | In 1921 , Parker created a pen that broke all the rules , officially called the Duofold but known as the ‘ Big Red ’ . |
| 22 | My people were rich but robbed |
| 23 | But if criteria for inclusion and exclusion are not technical and professional but based on a philosophy about what human beings are , then parental expertise can not be different in kind from that of professional ( unnatural ? ) experts . |
| 24 | These are unusual in design , being tripartite but divided into nine , panelled compartments . |
| 25 | 4 Entry The right for the Tenant and all persons expressly or by implication authorised by the Tenant to enter upon other parts of the Centre and ( if any ) the Adjoining Property to carry out works to the Premises where such works would otherwise not be possible , or may be possible but rendered more expensive than they would otherwise be if this right was available The problem of access over a neighbour 's land has been greatly alleviated by the passage of the Access to Neighbouring Land Act 1992 which sets out a procedure whereby a person may obtain a court order permitting access to a neighbour 's property in order to carry out works to protect , repair or maintain their property in circumstances where the neighbour refuses consent to such access . |
| 26 | The first of these would imply that Scaevola regarded the trust clause as ineffective ; the second that it was effective but limited to legal events which took place before the first will . |
| 27 | His objection was specifically against the idea of a married diaconate , and he accused three periti ( unnamed but thought to be Rahner , Martelet and Ratzinger ) of distributing pamphlets to the fathers soliciting support for such a project . |
| 28 | His beard was streaked with white among the grey , his face no longer majestic but drawn ; only his body was upright , his hands placed securely on his cane . |
| 29 | Getting started on the groove is tricky , then good but spaced holds lead up and left to more exposed rock . |
| 30 | Two figures were seated in the shadows , unseeable but known , as things are in dreams . |