Example sentences of "[adj] but [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This is true not only for ageing but also for the onset of disabilities ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 3 | 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 ? ’ |
| 4 | These braces are costly but well worth the outlay if the alternative is to stop skiing altogether . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The elfin-faced Irish singer , just 18 but already on the threshold of success , had finally resolved on a reconciliation . |
| 10 | Mr Jenkins kept the school Clean and neat and tidy But deep inside the boiler room He kept … |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She remembered helping in the hotel kitchen when she was ten but nowhere near the Bar . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | the Chi the Chinese empire is , is actually growing but possibly in the sense that within Chinese territory marginal land that has n't previously been used for agriculture is being brought into use . |
| 16 | But the old Gamoroi , the ‘ land-holders ’ , at Syracuse kept up their Dorian loyalties , occasionally sending numerically small but often in the event significant contributions to Sparta in her struggles at home in the fifth and fourth centuries ( see too p. 187 for the way the favour was returned ) . |
| 17 | Its a bit naff but close to the ground and good for parking . |
| 18 | It does give an insight into the nature of the American but also to the value , indeed the commercial value , of head-to-head play . |
| 19 | Suffice to suggest that the ego -experienced world of the Sonnets , despite the enormous time devoted to the Thou , creates what is essentially a single vision , a self-dedication to the other , which in effect results in an exposure and analysis , not only of the other but also of the self . |
| 20 | Tom found that the rotary-headed Philishave gave the best results : ‘ A bit expensive but well worth the money . ’ |
| 21 | But there is the mar there is considerable potential for flexibility in the policy and that would be determined my local planning authorities in the light of P P G seven but also in the light of er local circumstances and conditions which is quite right and proper . |
| 22 | Sterling issues expanded dramatically in the 1980s but increasingly in the form of eurosterling bonds and Table 3.8 shows the important share that such bonds now have in the total sterling bond market . |