Example sentences of "but [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ingredients were just right : three highly intelligent soloists ( Lynne Dawson , Anthony Rolfe Johnson and David Wilson-Johnson ) ; a small but alert choir ( excellently trained by Julian Clarkson ) ; a top-name period-instrument orchestra ; and a conductor not afraid to cherish every aspect of Haydn 's extraordinary score . |
| 2 | But alert neighbours Alan and Beatrice Eales heard the noises and called the police . |
| 3 | We are concerned about the small but persistent minority , particularly of young people , who re-offend while already on bail . |
| 4 | But persistent exposure to the same paper-type at least three times a week for a whole year may well have some effect , particularly if it is a preelection year when the political temperature usually rises . |
| 5 | It judged the main discipline problem facing teachers to be not the rare serious incidents of physical aggression , but the cumulative disruptive effects of relatively trivial but persistent misbehaviour . |
| 6 | It is like living in a low-level but persistent depression . |
| 7 | The wobbling but persistent angle between earth 's axis and ecliptic ( Figure 1.2 ) has ensured that , though not always icy , polar regions have always been strongly seasonal . |
| 8 | More of his scholarship should have found its way into print , but persistent illness , latterly reinforced by family tragedy , cruelly intervened and compelled his early retirement . |
| 9 | There were sketchy but persistent reports of a crackdown on fundamentalist dissent during December and January . |
| 10 | It would have been amusing to watch Rainbow striving to loosen Riva 's rigidities , unbutton her inhibitions , slip off her certainties , rub away her prejudices with a gentle but persistent thumb . |
| 11 | The essence of the allegation was the unsubstantiated but persistent claim that the 1980 presidential election campaign team of Ronald Reagan and Bush conspired with representatives of the government of Iran in order to reap electoral advantage by delaying the release of the 52 US hostages being held in the US embassy in Tehran , in return for which the Reagan team promised , when he gained office , to supply arms to Iran . |
| 12 | These ranged from the high-profile national bodies like Friends of the Earth , Greenpeace and the Council for the Protection of Rural England , who all had professional advocates to put their case , through to smaller but persistent participants like the South Wales Women 's Support Groups ( defending the interests of mining communities ) and the Irish Sea Project ( concerned about marine pollution ) . |
| 13 | You must be satisfied that the patient is progressing towards cure according to homœopathic principles : some repetition of an ill chosen remedy may do no harm , because of the brief action of each dose , but persistent use of a superficial remedy may cause harm . |
| 14 | Now a small but persistent band argues that the risk-free returns on Mexican paper could prove illusory too . |
| 15 | Single bells are fascinating , but triple bells from a single unit are quite remarkable . |
| 16 | Her lord is , after all , a lad of but eleven summers . |
| 17 | Watson 's 1844 plan shows at least twenty-eight thatched buildings , but eleven years later the town had only two . |
| 18 | Sefton today is happy in retirement , but eleven years ago there were many who would n't have believed he 'd still be alive . |
| 19 | One or two of the surrounding faces expressed alarm but loud laughter was the general response . |
| 20 | And ‘ Glittering Prize ’ is a timely resumé , a collection of singles that shows their gradual but assured effect on the global mainstream . |
| 21 | Tickets are often available on the door but advance booking is recommended . |
| 22 | It remains open to claimants and the adjudication officer to cite unreported cases , but advance notice of their intention to do so is required . |
| 23 | Many of the early experimenters spent a lot of time trying to improve the tiny transparent crystals they had made — crystals which they erroneously believed were only silica or other hard but non-diamond crystals . |
| 24 | Indeed enquiries show that deferent individuals require not only different but conflicting things from a lecture . |
| 25 | Citrine , now more aware of the new world they lived in , was more willing to contemplate price increases to finance investment , but conflicting signals came from Whitehall about both the merit and the practicability of such a change . |
| 26 | But conflicting demands by Muslim and Christian deputies confounded an apparent breakthrough the previous day . |
| 27 | Revolutionary theories may be accepted or discarded , but least cognisance is at taken of them and of what preceded them . |
| 28 | But prevailing attitudes towards the Jews at this time among all but a small proportion of the population , discriminatory though they were in different degrees , did not remotely match the anti-Jewish paranoia of Hitler and the activist Jew-baiting elements within the Nazi Movement . |
| 29 | Au contraire , it 's Mr Punch 's last , but greatest wheeze . |
| 30 | But armed forces are not known for being bastions of sentiment and it is definitely true that had the SAAF really needed to replace both types , it would have found a way to do so . |