Example sentences of "[adj] but the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The south side of Princes Street with its gardens and the Old Town skyline is changeless but the shopping side of the street is rapidly being transformed . |
| 2 | Normally I would never have raised the matter in public but the Tories persistently use Points of Order to accuse Opposition members of misdemeanours . ’ |
| 3 | The art work is primitive but the silly little joke is what comics used to be about . |
| 4 | It was seen as a one-off but the rest of the band recognised Solowka 's zeal . |
| 5 | Hence the bigram model is sufficiently non-sparse for full matrix storage to be sensible but the trigram matrix requires some means of sparse storage . |
| 6 | It was exciting but the last match on the Saturday with Clark and James and Strange and Stewart taking five hours and 15 minutes to go round in a fourball was a joke . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Midwifery manager Ann Wilson said : ‘ One set of parents were very understanding but the others were more angry about it , although they are calmer now . ’ |
| 9 | It may not be entertaining but the target is a Premier League place . |
| 10 | They say ‘ I 'm all right ’ or ‘ I 'm fine ’ when we know , as a friend or a partner , that there is something wrong but the opportunity to share the problem is not taken . |
| 11 | Luckily he could find nothing wrong but the disbelief was still in his voice . |
| 12 | The reason for this advice is that , if you go wrong but the examiner can identify the stage at which you have gone wrong , he is able to give you the appropriate credit . |
| 13 | Dobry 's view that ‘ it is not so much the system which is wrong but the way in which it is used ’ was endorsed , and his Final Report was commended to students of our planning system as an invaluable compendium of information about the working of the existing development control process , and to local authorities and developers as a source of advice on the best way to operate within it . |
| 14 | In our case the origin of the myofibroblasts is not clear but the presence of transitional forms of smooth muscle cells strongly suggests an origin from such cells rather than extension of pericrypt cells or infiltration of circulating blood cells . |
| 15 | Whether this lenient approach applies in actions for negligence is not clear but the employer 's personal non-delegable duty to the employee to take into account the possibility of the employee 's carelessness for his own safety is relevant in such a calculation . |
| 16 | The couture world was very sordid backstage then , the salons would look OK but the cabines were filthy . |
| 17 | [ Liverpool 's ] great stations — Lime Street , the Central and the Exchange — are centres of bustling life , of passengers coming and going ; and scarcely a day passes without the reminder that the city by the Mersey is not only English but the Continental portal to the New World . |
| 18 | ‘ We have thought about developing our own commercial but the cost would be prohibitive so we are looking at repeating the success of the ‘ Nature ’ commercial by taking advertisements from other parts of the world . ’ |
| 19 | The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak … |
| 20 | ‘ The spirit is willing but the flesh is very , very weak . ’ |
| 21 | The 1950s machine translation programme which turned a visiting general 's test sentence ‘ The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak ’ into Russian and then back into ‘ The steak is wonderful but the whisky is lousy ’ is probably apocryphal , but nevertheless all too plausible . |
| 22 | Obviously such methods are far from sufficient ( an apocryphal example of the problems that arose involves the translation of the sentence ‘ The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak ’ into Russian and then back-translated to English as ‘ The vodka is strong but the meat is rotten ’ ) . |
| 23 | Many governors are uncertain about the level of responsibility being urged upon them and everywhere the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak when it comes to course funding . |
| 24 | The old adage ‘ The mind is willing but the flesh is weak , ’ could be said to apply to the M.C.R. and its attitude towards sport . |
| 25 | Milk yields are not high but the milk is quite rich , though cows do not usually produce their first calf until they are perhaps 42 months old . |
| 26 | ‘ The fees involved are n't very high but the actual money involved in modifying the car is . ’ |
| 27 | Its popularity is still high but the quality of the mass-produced , growth-promoted product of today is far below the standard of the succulent farmhouse bacon of the past . |
| 28 | Proud yet supplicant , the head held high but the knee bent . |
| 29 | His count , apparently , was sufficiently high but the motility in this , and subsequent samples , was disappointingly low . |
| 30 | His arm was outstretched but the Doctor had gone . |