Example sentences of "[adj] but [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quantum mechanics may be peculiar but not to the extent of allowing one to obtain the square root of minus one as the result of an experiment ! |
| 2 | The Jokers said much about Sixties London , still swinging but not at the pace depicted by the media . |
| 3 | Sometimes the fungi is n't growing in the soil proper but just under the ground on the decaying foot or stump of a tree , so a little investigation is necessary in these cases . |
| 4 | This is true not only for ageing but also for the onset of disabilities ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 5 | To ask a child to get dressed is a reasonable requirement of a seven-year-old but not of a two-year-old . |
| 6 | ‘ Discuss , with reference to at least two plays , how tragedy can be enacted not only upon the individual but also upon a family ’ |
| 7 | However , a number of United States courts have considered cases in which service has been effected by registered mail upon defendants in Japan , a state which has objected to the other modes of service listed in Article 10 but not to the use of the postal channel . |
| 8 | Her clothes are extravagant but not beyond the means of , say , Russian stars of stage and screen . |
| 9 | The reaction of my careers adviser at University when I confessed my inclination was gloomy but perhaps at the time realistic : ‘ That 's all very well , but what are you going to do when you grow up ? ’ |
| 10 | DBG Acquired by RBG in 1979 but still without a guidebook . |
| 11 | Keep collections visible but out of the way of day-to-day living : deep windowsills and cabinets are ideal , or tables that are n't used regularly . |
| 12 | These braces are costly but well worth the outlay if the alternative is to stop skiing altogether . |
| 13 | Danzig was a party to the Treaty of Paris of 1920 but not to the Treaty of Versailles , which was held to be the source of the rights conferred upon Poland and the organic limitations on Danzig . |
| 14 | Devlin Parnham was in his seventies but apart from the sparsity of his frame and a slight tendency to stoop you would never have known it . |
| 15 | A C2 might be a joy to paddle on a dancing rapid but out on the Pacific Ocean it behaved like a submersible beast . |
| 16 | In summer the gardens would have looked colourful and pretty but somehow in the depths of the Provençal winter they appeared melancholy . |
| 17 | It must be regarded as extremely probable that Oswiu was able to seek help in the confrontation with Penda not only from the Scots but also from the Picts , possibly even from the Irish ( see also below , p. 99 ) . |
| 18 | Tom Sneva , a former winner of the Indianapolis 500 but out of a drive in CART racing this year , entered the Formula 3 support race at Phoenix . |
| 19 | The move up to verse can be made for the exit of a person from a lower but also for the entrance of one from a higher rank . |
| 20 | I 'm disappointed about that but not about the standard , it was a great game . |
| 21 | Crime they say does n't pay , well you may have your own views on that but certainly across the breadth of variety of criminal activity we might agree that crime almost always hurt someone , more or less , we have a system designed to cope with the effects of crime and to deter future criminals , but it does n't seem to be making crime a thing of the past , so how good are we at dealing with crime , tonight 's hundred women have a broad range of experience as victims , law women , perpetrators , police and others , we 'll be hearing their views on the system and how it might be changed and asking why are we all so fascinated by fictional crime from Cell Block H to Agatha Christie . |
| 22 | She seemed to be eased by talking of her daughter , and by the time she stopped , apologetically , and drank some tea poured for her by Catherine , she looked exhausted but less like a wraith . |
| 23 | For much of 1981 we were running not only behind Labour but also behind the alliance formed by the Liberals and the newly created Social Democratic Party of David Owen , Bill Rodgers , Shirley Williams and Roy Jenkins . |
| 24 | Whether or not he was altogether comfortable in such a role is another matter ; when Lawrence Durrell once suggested to him that he was not a Christian at all but more like a Buddhist or a primitive he replied only with a question , " Perhaps they have n't found me out yet ? " |
| 25 | There were several little alleyways that he might have used and they had a man watching each one ; but then in the end he approached from the other side , not through the bazaar at all but along through the streets , the way they themselves had come on that previous visit . |
| 26 | DUP Assemblyman Jim Wells was also present but apart from the DUP politicians , the only other leader who was present was George Seawright ( of whom more later ) . |
| 27 | The elfin-faced Irish singer , just 18 but already on the threshold of success , had finally resolved on a reconciliation . |
| 28 | Mr Jenkins kept the school Clean and neat and tidy But deep inside the boiler room He kept … |
| 29 | May be fussy and irritable but not like the tantrums of Chamomilla or the touchiness of Hepar . |
| 30 | A repertoire of ornament of a vernacular baroque character is applied with varying degrees of restraint , while the interiors , usually arranged with the hall and saloon across the centre and the staircase to one side , are enriched with fine joinery and plaster-work but little in the way of spatial incident . |