Example sentences of "[adj] but [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okun feels that the price set by Rawls on equality is too high but in this context he would be prepared to accept a 60 per cent leak Okun ( 1975 , p. 94 ) . |
| 2 | The two tasks are interrelated but in this book we separate them and look in this chapter at the first and most difficult task . |
| 3 | Rev Jim Caterer , vicar of Standish , said : ‘ I never say something is impossible but in this case I wish I could say just that . |
| 4 | ‘ Most of my sight had gone by the time I was five or six but at that age you seem to adjust without realising what 's happening , ’ Julia says . |
| 5 | It 's designed to sleep two or three but on one occasion we had four adults sleeping inside . |
| 6 | Yes I can appreciate that but at this moment I 'm not worried or bothered about any prosecutions in relation to this matter I 'm bothered about the ch the child 's er health . |
| 7 | ‘ The gaffer was ready to hammer us for that but after this result I asked , where are we going next Thursday — a nightclub ? |
| 8 | that it was extremely good but in actual fact it went on until twenty to nine at night |
| 9 | It 's cheap , cheerful and trashy but on another level it 's a well focused snapshot of the time of social change , emancipation and free love . |
| 10 | It 's said the engine is the same as any injected 1.6 but in this car it feels torquier , much smoother , more eager and quieter , though this could be as a result of top-down wind roar . |
| 11 | Wicked but by that time we felt we deserved it . |
| 12 | When Pip finds out that Estella is to marry Drummle he is shocked but at this moment he is more devoted to Magwitch who will be hanged if he is caught . |
| 13 | The coming of the rains brought no physical relief to the besieged but in one respect it made things worse ; the smell from the decaying offal and from the corpses of men and animals became intolerable and hung constantly , undisturbed by wind , as a foul miasma over the fortifications . |
| 14 | The fourteenth century is another country to the young but in any case I do n't like to make specific parallels with events in more recent times . |