Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] but [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baths were mandatory and not just a lazy soaking but a good scrubbing with carbolic soap . |
| 2 | If there was a resolution on the agenda today to increase the subscription , and I hasten to add there is n't , but if there was then that increase by convention would take effect on the first of January nineteen ninety four but the full value of the increase would not reach our income and expenditure account until the year nineteen ninety five to ninety six and this means that we are not well placed to respond to short-term financial problems . |
| 3 | The country has to decide whether higher education is not only a private good but a public good . |
| 4 | Gothin et al , studying six adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease and growth failure ( three with Crohn 's disease and three with ulcerative colitis ) , showed a normal sleep related serum growth hormone response in all six but a blunted response to arginine in one patient and to insulin in three patients . |
| 5 | But you 'll see on the vehicle operating cost savings , that they 're all negative but the blue route is less negative that purple , orange , red and pink and therefore erm is marginally better in terms of vehicle operating cost savings . |
| 6 | No sheet of Olympic-proportion aqua-blue but a curving arc of pale green water set in natural stone with palm-frond umbrellas shading rustic wooden tables round the edge . |
| 7 | Patients treated with NSAIDs had more gastric but a similar number of duodenal ulcers as those not taking NSAIDs . |
| 8 | Amanda Harris 's Virgilia is no simpering wet but a loyal wife who vehemently thumps the tribunes for their banishment of her husband . |
| 9 | According to official statistics , the gypsy population is five hundred thousand but the real figure is over a million . |
| 10 | Er not just the treaty in eighteen fifteen but the whole congress system erm after eighteen fifteen onwards and into the eighteen twenties and such like . |