Example sentences of "[adj] but [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " 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 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 ? ’
9 DBG Acquired by RBG in 1979 but still without a guidebook .
10 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 .
11 These braces are costly but well worth the outlay if the alternative is to stop skiing altogether .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 I 'm disappointed about that but not about the standard , it was a great game .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 ? "
21 The elfin-faced Irish singer , just 18 but already on the threshold of success , had finally resolved on a reconciliation .
22 Mr Jenkins kept the school Clean and neat and tidy But deep inside the boiler room He kept …
23 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 .
24 The gully is steep and rough but not beyond the ability of an average walker , and leads unerringly to the depression on the ridge , whence a simple climb up to the right leads to the summit cairn of Caisteal Liath .
25 She remembered helping in the hotel kitchen when she was ten but nowhere near the Bar .
26 Deflecting the blow aimed at James Lambert 's head with his left arm , he drove his right fist short but hard into the man 's mouth , loosening teeth and skinning his knuckles .
27 The offence is committed not just by a trader who supplies consumer goods that are not reasonably safe but also by a trader who agrees or offers to supply them or exposes or possesses them for supply .
28 Lord Goff , dismissing the Crown 's appeal , said the case was of importance not only to the parties concerned but also for the future of the law of restitution .
29 The figures demonstrate something about the characteristics of people with dementia referred to psychogeriatricians : that they are on average around 80 years of age , mainly women , mainly widowed or single , quite likely to be living alone but not without the involvement of relatives or friends , and with fairly advanced dementia ( assuming that this is the implication of a score of nearly seven on a scale , running from one to ten , designed mainly to measure impairment of memory ) .
30 The authorities subsequently declared , however , that there had been a single assassin , who had been captured on June 29 but not at the scene of the crime .
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