Example sentences of "[art] [adj] but [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The audience knew it too — it showed in the polite but faintly puzzled round of applause , far less enthusiastic than she normally received . |
| 2 | The associated but very different payment of the Census was made by monasteries that had the protection of St Peter 's vicar , the pope . |
| 3 | This particular parcel bore , on the third sheet , the one closest the body , the smudged but still discernible name and address of a woman in Reading ; a Mrs Dyer of Kensington Road . |
| 4 | In their infinite wisdom , the SFA had arranged for a Scotland Under 23 side to travel with the senior squad , in the admirable but ultimately naive belief that it would be a learning experience for the young stars of the future . |
| 5 | He had the enviable but potentially inconvenient gift of making each visitor feel that he was the person Montini had been waiting all his life to talk to . |
| 6 | The de Warrenes had died out in the later middle ages , the priory was pulled down in 1538 , and with the disappearance of traditional authorities attention turned to the lesser but more numerous town houses of prosperous local merchants and the gentry who needed homes for the legal and social seasons . |
| 7 | Her hand was retained and to her astonishment given the slightest but most certain squeeze . |
| 8 | Out takes place at an unspecified time several decades after the unexplained but presumably cataclysmic event known as the ‘ displacement ’ . |
| 9 | He used the old but very effective trick of balancing a five-pound note on a club head to demonstrate how this changed the swing-weight quite significantly . |
| 10 | In Unforgiven — a brilliant but never-clarified title — Bill Munny , Eastwood 's screen character , is quizzed about the times when he was the most feared gun in the West , irresistibly evoking memories of the Man With No Name 's six-shooter holocausts in Sergio Leone 's Dollars trilogy ( A Fistful Of Dollars , For A Few Dollars More and The Good , The Bad And The Ugly ) and the mellower but still genocidal guerilla of The Outlaw Josey Wales . |
| 11 | Advertising by manufacturers has become notorious for the extravagant but contractually ineffective commendation of goods . |
| 12 | And it shows the easy but potentially dangerous slide from manageable credit purchases into a vicious circle of cash loans and increasing indebtedness — all with the same credit caller . |
| 13 | The facts of deixis should act as a constant reminder to theoretical linguists of the simple but immensely important fact that natural languages are primarily designed , so to speak , for use in face-to-face interaction , and thus there are limits to the extent to which they can be analysed without taking this into account ( Lyons , 1977a : 589ff ) . |
| 14 | 60 ) , in fact , helps to emphasize the consistent but often indirect relationship between the mosaics of this group . |
| 15 | If you want to go through the details of assignment and analysis , there are many excellent treatments that will help you , varying in depth from the brief but extremely clear account in Ref. [ 20 ] to long and complicated books on the subject , for example , Ref. [ 21 ] . |
| 16 | The pretty but comparatively minor portrait , ‘ Mabel , daughter of Charles Galloway , J.P . |
| 17 | Solicitors on the outside of the lucrative but tight criminal market wanted to get inside it . |
| 18 | As the next straight stretch of lane came into view , Yanto took a deep breath , held it , and with a quick twist of the throttle raced past the obnoxious but very necessary vehicle . |
| 19 | After passing the welcome but rather unexpected Sportsman 's Inn , the river is re-crossed at Stone House Bridge , one of the few places on this narrow highway where there is space to park a few cars . |
| 20 | So the first thing you 'd expect on just by the false but enormously appealing principle that the world is simple and elegant , is there is just one level of structure there . |
| 21 | At no point throughout the weekend did he seem at ease in the new car , his driving lacking the urgent but dramatically effective style seen in the past . |
| 22 | Try the Finale ( track 3 ) for a representative example of the dazzling but highly intelligent pianism on offer here , as well as the impressive orchestral contribution . |
| 23 | Physical disability makes shopping difficult , and sometimes forces the elderly to rely entirely on the good but fairly limited range of foods that can be delivered to their door by the milkman . |
| 24 | The reason the plan went so sadly askew was the not-wholly-unexpected but extremely untimely death of Laura Stratton herself , though whether this was occasioned by her own complicity , excitement , remorse — whatever ! — we shall never really know . |
| 25 | We also learn much of the deep but often difficult relationship of husband and wife . |
| 26 | His alertness , however , hardly resembles the quizzical interrogations of the puzzled but essentially self-effacing philosopher Palomar ; it is the wide-awakeness of a picaresque hero on the make . |
| 27 | To add to the confusion the old-fashioned but still prevalent school ethics dictate that girls in trousers are somehow ‘ rude ’ . |
| 28 | So far we have considered the significance of attachment in relation to the fundamental but rather general issue of whether it is safe to rely upon others at all . |
| 29 | Thus TDC was able to cope without overcrowding with the inexorable but still moderate increase in demand for capacity during the period 1955 to 1975 . |
| 30 | There was also the unexpected but most gratifying development of the girl 's jealous lover and his mate beating Tyler within an inch of his life . |