Example sentences of "a [adj] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made little attempt at conversation and showed no surprise that he should be asked to drive to Boulogne in the middle of the afternoon to pick up a well-dressed but grubby Englishman . |
| 2 | He had heard that Newgate was a hell-hole but now he experienced it first hand and understood why some prisoners went quickly insane . |
| 3 | The term " guilt " is another word which has a connected but dual meaning . |
| 4 | We went out to breakfast with Mr Robinson , a pleasant but prosy old gentleman who told us a complicated tale of a bust of Wieland , retrieved by himself from unworthy oblivion , to the great delight of Goethe and other literary eminences . |
| 5 | Arriving on a hot afternoon in October this year I found a pleasant but unremarkable village spread along a bay . |
| 6 | Use a pleasant but firm tone of voice ( no pleading , cajoling , wheedling ! ) . |
| 7 | It is most important , particularly with younger pupils , that Home Economics should be an enjoyable subject , in which learning is combined with a sense of achievement in a pleasant but industrious atmosphere . |
| 8 | I rose this morning after a few days of calm without mystical experience and I walked through a steep valley in a golden light of dawn that was like a rich but transparent garment covering all things . |
| 9 | Within a period of about 20Myr ( taking the Ediacaran faunas as 560Myr old and the base of the Cambrian as 540Myr old ) , the oceans changed from habitats housing a rich but effectively microscopic biota , to one teeming with macroscopic animals engaged in a wide range of ecologies and presumably showing a degree of behavioural sophistication . |
| 10 | He used L'Oréal 's Diacolor in a rich but natural-looking burnished brown . |
| 11 | Noell died a rich but not fabulously wealthy man , having already settled much of his property and set up a substantial charity in his native town . |
| 12 | A rich but ugly hunchback is able to obtain a beautiful young girl to be his wife and then guards her with consuming jealousy . |
| 13 | The story goes that ealy in the last century the then owner , a reverend David Edwards made a good marriage to a rich but stout lady , Miss Purnell . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | He dropped dead , undone by a nonexistent but convincing South American poison . |
| 16 | Hodgson had already used this trick for a radio play , Sword from the Stars , to give a robot named Jones a haughty but very mechanical voice . |
| 17 | The result of this sensitivity for the majority of respondents was a friendly but uneasy and measured co-operation , although there were extremes at either pole . |
| 18 | ‘ Today 's game is only of relative importance , not just because it is a friendly but for the good reason that today 's Argentina bears little resemblance to the one that will play in next summer 's finals . |
| 19 | ‘ Today 's game is only of relative importance , not just because it is a friendly but for the good reason that today 's Argentina bears little resemblance to the one that will play in next summer 's finals . |
| 20 | A friendly but severe-looking woman answered it . |
| 21 | Captain Gary Mabbutt , who hopes to make his first appearance of the season after injury , said : ‘ The game may be only a friendly but there is a lot of prestige involved . |
| 22 | The tea was handed round by a posse of mothers who greeted Agnes in a friendly but appraising way which infuriated her . |
| 23 | He 's worried that I 'm getting too excited , but unfortunately that 's my personality , ’ he reflected with a shy but broad grin . |
| 24 | One possible answer to this is that such a person is felt to be not only a representative but also representative as a person of those who chose her/him . |
| 25 | The important point is this : is the use of an overseas company like Sterling ( where inquiries about the real ownership of shareholdings in threatened companies are met with a polite but firm snub ) acceptable within a legalframework trying to ensure fair play ? |
| 26 | A polite but firm approach gets better results than a rude but firm approach . |
| 27 | A polite but clear piece of blackmail to a politician who dominated , but was not in absolute control of , the writer 's county politics . |
| 28 | This meant that pensions were not regarded as a right but were dependent on the establishment of eligibility through contributions or ‘ work-testing ’ . |
| 29 | If both these exclusions were accepted , the throne was Philip 's , if it were allowed that a woman could transmit a right but not exercise it , the throne was Edward 's . |
| 30 | Prior consultation and participative decision-making has not always been regarded as a right but teachers ' involvement should be regarded as a professional entitlement . |