Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] [adj] but [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From here we take the road marked Curral das Freiras for a short but very scenic and awe-inspiring drive . |
| 2 | Capirossi 's first winter as world champ was a mind-expanding experience for the youthful but remarkably mature Latin . |
| 3 | Formulation of the plan seems to be the result of a complex but highly structured process of consultations and meetings carried out over a six month period , and culminating in the ratification of the plan by the full Politburo . |
| 4 | Indeed , every day brings possibilities of new flowers , some new kind of insect : a fat , steel-blue oil beetle thrusting her way out of the earth to blunder over hedge-bottom debris in search of a slimmer but scarcely less clumsy male . |
| 5 | We were a pioneer of a necessary but very undesirable kind of activity . |
| 6 | Compare the delicate creamy taste and springy texture of a Charme de France Brie with the softer but more traditional flavour of St Benoit Brie , both have a floury edible rind . |
| 7 | Major growth , international development , innovations in many areas , a strong customer-driven marketing strategy , backed by precisely targeted , high-calibre research and technical services , plus a clear vision of the future in an expanding but highly competitive sector . |
| 8 | In the LP days Altarus released the first-ever recordings of piano music by John Foulds , thus casting overdue light on a substantial but hitherto shadowy figure ( I understand this recording is scheduled for re-issue — keep an eye open for it : the music is wonderful ) . |
| 9 | Is there a means of bridging the gap between knowledge and morality that avoids the problems of Kant 's recourse to the aesthetic but also resists Lyotard 's argument that the two are simply incommensurable ? |
| 10 | It was a human world , we learned , theoretically part of the SenFed but only just . |
| 11 | It should be noted that , properly speaking , wrappers are quite different from jackets or dust wrappers , which are not part of the binding but simply an extraneous protection . |
| 12 | Out takes place at an unspecified time several decades after the unexplained but presumably cataclysmic event known as the ‘ displacement ’ . |
| 13 | North of the village are the ‘ bings ’ or spoil-heaps of an important but relatively short-lived Scottish chemical industry — the extraction of oil from shale . |
| 14 | Bratby combined a talent for self-publicity with a bold but essentially traditional style indebted to Sickert , producing a large body of work of variable quality . |
| 15 | ‘ Walter 's My Secret Life , the fictional narrative of a debauchee , constructed male desire as an illicit but physiologically based animal appetite , which drove men on to fresh excess . |
| 16 | This formed the basis of an informal but generally close working relationship between the cooperative movement and the Labour Party ( and via this with the trade unions ) until a national agreement in 1927 formalised it . |
| 17 | It does give an insight into the nature of the American but also to the value , indeed the commercial value , of head-to-head play . |
| 18 | Not surprisingly in a small fish with an extensive but virtually one-dimensional ( East-West ) range , different populations have developed different colour patterns , and perhaps in time these will become different species altogether . |
| 19 | SABRE is an airline reservation system , developed by American Airlines in the 1960s but now generally available . |
| 20 | Chairman Alan Potts explained : ‘ The Club went through a bad period in the eighties but happily we resolved the problems . ’ |
| 21 | President Collor 's plan combines free marketeering and authoritarian intervention in a bewildering but roughly equal mix . |
| 22 | Hilyer ( whose character is apparently the Patron Saint of actors ) is , however , excellent , while Rae Smith 's idiosyncratic costume designs and the lighting by Paul Russell also make very effective contributions to an uneven but often rewarding evening . |
| 23 | If you add a second set of stripes , at right angles to the first but also moving at right angles to their axis , the person will not see two sets of stripes but a set of chevrons moving at 45 degrees to the true directions of movement . |
| 24 | Urbanization and tyranny are connected , and both are consequences of trade ( which spreads ideas and causes dissatisfaction among the rich but politically excluded ) . |
| 25 | The author set the context for his story with a lengthy but fairly conventional genealogy of the kings of France , tracing their origins back to the Trojans as Frankish historians had done since Merovingian times . |
| 26 | For the rest of a sunny but refreshingly cool Delhi day he buried himself in batting practice with a vigour that would have sapped any man without his phenomenal stamina . |
| 27 | The risen Lord had appeared not only to women , Peter , and the rest of the Twelve but also to James ( 1 Cor. 15 : 5–7 ) . |
| 28 | In addition , it is the young old — those in their sixties and seventies — who play a major part , disproportionate to their numbers , in the maintenance of voluntary organizations which contribute not only to the welfare of the disadvantaged but also to the cultural activities of the country at large . |
| 29 | His tempers at nighttime disturb Amy and also earn bangs on the wall from the irritated but otherwise kindly , elderly couple next door . |
| 30 | His tempers at nighttime disturb Amy and also earn bangs on the wall from the irritated but otherwise kindly , elderly couple next door . |