Example sentences of "[adj] but [adv] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is raining at the moment and it 's gon na be wet and windy but quite mild for the rest of the day . |
| 2 | In this case , the expected DM is therefore 120cm -3 pc , a little high but reasonably consistent with the observed value of 71cm -3 pc , given the large spread of DM sin b in other clusters . |
| 3 | Harriman and his interpreter , Bernod Walters , found Mossadeq engaging but almost impossible as an interlocutor , On one occasion he remarked , " Irans 's problems have always been caused by foreigners , The whole think began with that Greek , Alexander . " |
| 4 | Potting manager Mike Shufflebotham said : ‘ The project was simple but very effective with an excellent presentation . ’ |
| 5 | Just around the corner from Sion House they found a narrow five-story terraced house built in the 1840s but impeccably Georgian in every other respect . |
| 6 | That is why the smallest of the herbivores , Thomson 's gazelle , lives on fruit , which is very nutritious but too thin on the ground to support a larger animal . |
| 7 | To have left the tube and drain in place for 14–21 days would have been ideal but less acceptable to the patient . |
| 8 | I simply say that on the debates we 've had on the Policing Bill , I 've learnt what the functions of your Noble House is all about and the speech that 's just been made from across the Chamber from me , sums up entirely my views on the matter , and I say to your Lordships House that on the basis of experience as Northern Ireland Secretary when one is a Home Secretary for a province and there 's a number of people in this House who 've had a job to do including the Noble Lord , The Noble Viscount Whitelaw who set the tone of the way we all proceeded , I accept that , the one of the things we had to do there was bring democracy back to policing and the primary force of policing is taking a long time to do and that here as Home Secretary , everything I learned there was , stop the growing centralisation and the weakening of the police authorities and police force and this Bill does exactly that But now one of the questions I 've asked myself and it 's the only point because all the points have been made that I really want to ask the Government is what are these appointees for ? |
| 9 | One possible answer to this is that such a person is felt to be not only a representative but also representative as a person of those who chose her/him . |
| 10 | Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes |
| 11 | It is not the space that is redundant but rather much of the population which occupied that space and worked in industries now regarded by UK policy makers and commentators as obsolescent and non-revivable . |
| 12 | The prescription was logical but totally unacceptable to the government , and there were two major objections to the Layfield proposals . |
| 13 | this overhead-view game is hardly brilliant but quite playable in a simple way . |
| 14 | The mundane artefact is not merely problematic but inevitably embarrassing as the focused topic of analysis , a practice which always appears fetishistic . |
| 15 | Still Daalny lingered , as if minded to say or ask something more , her thin oval face sharply alert and her eyes half-veiled but very bright within the long dark lashes . |
| 16 | Just as within a family holding , division in each generation was partly offset by not just accident but longer-term strategies ( cousin-marriage ; the offloading of surplus heirs into the Church ) that restored unity , so shifts in the shape of the royal family , unpredictable but generally divisive in the short run , were offset by a longer-term impulsion to re-form a united whole . |
| 17 | Elsewhere , the twin bells of a sturdily traditional wind-up clock squeal , wakening another slumbering pair , younger , fresher , clearly less ossified in their morning habits than the first but equally resistant to the day . |
| 18 | It is a prosperous-looking place , either because there is wine money here , made from the vineyards of Irouléguy , or because well-off Basques have retired to this very calm and convenient valley , to renovate the old houses or build themselves shiny new ones , reminiscent but hardly imitative of the lovely old style of Basque domestic architecture . |
| 19 | Vologsky lay back in the flight couch , his body quiescent but just short of the point of relaxation . |
| 20 | Er in , in general but very disappointed with the come out . |
| 21 | In that marriage she was easily the dominant partner and Joe let her be partly because it is n't in his nature to be pushy or dominant but mainly due to the fact his father bullied his mother , as we are told and he is afraid of him doing this as well and so fails to protect Pip and tolerates Mrs Joe 's dominant character . |
| 22 | For all his undoubted talent Grayson may not have been a budding Ian Rush but he turned out for one of the country 's most famous clubs , perhaps not the best but certainly one of the best known — Accrington Stanley . |
| 23 | It sailed on , strong in spite of its seeming inadequacy , through treacherous undertows , wild water , whirlpools , rapids , rocks and came through , battered but still intact on the other side . |
| 24 | Ahmed Ould Daddah was supported in his campaign by the main opposition party , the Union of Democratic Forces ( Union des forces démocratiques — UFD ) ; by the Islamic fundamentalists of the Umma Party , banned but still influential among the Arab merchants of the capital , Nouakchott ; and by the Nasserists , the Democratic Justice Party and the Democratic Centre Party ( whose own candidate , Benba Ould Sidi Badi , withdrew ) . |
| 25 | Bishop William Alexander preached an eulogy which was eloquent but somewhat imprecise about the qualities for which he was celebrated : |