Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adj] but [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The original concept for reservoir access was replaced by designing three horizontal wells to target the thin but high permeability layers . |
| 2 | In this storm of righteous indignation few commentators made the important but disheartening point that , except in moments of obvious crisis , the man in the street was as a rule little interested in foreign policy questions . |
| 3 | At the start of the twentieth century the UK 's foreign trade and balance of payments fully justified the stylized but powerful description of this country as ‘ the workshop of the world ’ : the country was a net importer of primary products including food and industrial raw materials ( such as rubber and cotton ) and a net exporter of manufactured goods . |
| 4 | However , thanks to sponsorship from Natal Building Society and public fund-raising both parents flew to Sydney to see the exciting but frustrating semi-final against England . |
| 5 | The particular challenge for donors has been how best to support the fragile but vital process of transition to a pluralist democracy and market economies in the region . |
| 6 | Alec led the strenuous but short-lived pitch and I continued up the long Needle Crack : sustained but never too difficult ; glorious bridging above the full height of the crag . |
| 7 | Can I help you ? ’ goes the traditional but intimidating greeting , as a New Kid creeps humbly into NME 's reception area , taking his/her very first steps into that mythical epicentre of Rock Wordage , that hallowed den of sex , filth , depravity , drug babble and staplers . |
| 8 | DEEP THINKERS Forward planning O'Donovan also offers the simple but profound thought that it is women who will be giving birth to the next generation of Rugby League players . |
| 9 | It would maximise civilian tactics of resistance and defuse the natural potential for violence , containing and eventually eliminating the marginal but intrusive phenomenon of collaborator activation by Israeli security authorities and collaborator execution by local Palestinians . |
| 10 | Such usage also reinforces the common but mistaken idea that authors are normally men rather than women ( an idea which is probably only true of the canon of writers selected for study — generally by male critics — not of writing as a whole ) . |
| 11 | As a first step , the institutional users want the rapid but phased introduction of a secure rolling settlements system aiming to cut the cycle to T+3 eventually , but initially to T+10 then to T+5 . |
| 12 | Otherwise , Mr Kaifu has won a small but notable victory . |
| 13 | In the first section of this paper we saw that algebraic laws provide a novel but precise framework for describing and defining occam . |
| 14 | Last night , both sides promised a hard but fair battle . |
| 15 | The central idea here is that a proper name qua proper name not only picks out one object only , but unlike a descriptive phrase designates that same object in " every possible world " ; a " possible world " being understood as representing a possible but unactualised situation , or a series of situations , of which the given object might be a feature . |
| 16 | Not all that long ago the term ‘ independent sector ’ described a broad but distinct territory of critical practice in film and video . |
| 17 | I found a small but perfectly-formed hailstone on my knee , which must have got in through the air vent . |
| 18 | Arriving on a hot afternoon in October this year I found a pleasant but unremarkable village spread along a bay . |
| 19 | He concludes that theses occupy a distinctive but peripheral position in the information transfer chain . |
| 20 | Ex. 18 seems to demand a dark but sonorous tone-colour . |
| 21 | This means adopting a firm but rational strategy that enables unacceptable old permissions to be extinguished without compensation , while those that are potentially acceptable are quickly brought up to modern standards , also without compensation . |
| 22 | This means adopting a firm but rational strategy that enables unacceptable old permissions to be extinguished without compensation , while those that are potentially acceptable are quickly brought up to modern standards , also without compensation . |
| 23 | GOLD CUP hero Cool Ground heads a small but select field for Saturday 's Rehearsal Chase at Chepstow . |
| 24 | For the rest of his life he bore a thin but livid scar on the right-hand side of his face . |
| 25 | As Sawyer and Darton wrote so tellingly in English Books : ‘ The Running Stationers , as they were at the last called , bore a light but precious fardel : just the Short History of the English People — no more . ‘ |
| 26 | It is very hard to provide a simple but adequate explanation . |
| 27 | It is a subject which seems to provide a small but steady flow of readers ' letters . |
| 28 | Nonetheless , it is possible to provide a brief but structured sketch that furthers our understanding of contemporary British politics . |
| 29 | Using Wella Optaform permanent wave lotion , and winding the hair on Molton Brown permers , she created a soft but strong style . |
| 30 | The term " guilt " is another word which has a connected but dual meaning . |