Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] but [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact there were only a few cars but quite a number of pack mules , some horse-drawn carts and one or two carozzelle , fine horse-drawn carriages , most of which had seen better days . |
| 2 | Could afford a few drinks but not a meal . |
| 3 | The match looked set to be a close affair when the two neighbours were level pegging after three heats but then a run of four successive 5–1s for the home side virtually settled the issue . |
| 4 | Over the fifteen years that Motability has been established , there have been powerful disagreements but not a whisper of hostility . |
| 5 | An incomer friend — all of seventeen years but forever an incomer — in Ness had wailed . |
| 6 | We 've got some small ones but not a lot I do n't suppose . |
| 7 | In 1688 Townesend married Anne , daughter of Henry Brian , gentleman , of Witney : they had at least eight children but only a son John and a daughter survived their father , the former carrying on the business . |
| 8 | This demonstrates not only a continuing uncertainty about the precise objectives but also a change in emphasis away from the provision of courses towards other forms of dissemination , of which more will be said below . |
| 9 | I 'd seen premature babies but never a baby that small . |