Example sentences of "[art] [adj -er] but [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Compare the delicate creamy taste and springy texture of a Charme de France Brie with the softer but more traditional flavour of St Benoit Brie , both have a floury edible rind . |
| 3 | This recipe gives the option of choosing the traditional sauce , or one using green peppercorns , red wine and yogurt for a lighter but very hot variation . |
| 4 | His broadcast of 23 April was a shorter but equally powerful repeat performance of his address at the end of Barricades Week . |
| 5 | All too typical , however , was Lord Keith 's remark in 1799 that he had given a lieutenant 's commission to ‘ the Duchess of Atholle 's friend Glen Geary … a heavy dog too ’ , while passing over a brighter but less well-connected midshipman . |
| 6 | It is clear , I think , that this argument would , if successful , turn the argument against a global scepticism about understanding into an argument against a weaker but still global scepticism about knowledge . |
| 7 | The breed originated from the Jutland Black Pied , which was known a century ago as a hardier but less productive type of the black pied lowland group and had been bred in Denmark for a very long time . |
| 8 | Subpolar seas of both hemispheres are richer than polar seas , with a longer but less intense season of high productivity . |
| 9 | A longer but more interesting approach is possible by leaving the cart track at the viaduct and keeping along the east side of the railway ; join the track from Winterscales to Dentdale by passing over a bridge near the entrance to Blea Moor tunnel . |
| 10 | A quieter but potentially important project is currently underway by Sir John Boreham who has been seconded from the government statistical office . |
| 11 | Silvia , Admiral and Sunblush in the Clear Sheers range will go with virtually anything , or , for a darker but equally delicate look , choose Barely Black Ultra Clear Sheers . |