Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] but a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The response rate to a verbal questionnaire can easily be 90% or more but a mailed questionnaire can have a response rate as low as 30% even with follow-up reminders . |
| 2 | That is not a retrospective or prescriptive but a descriptive process and will allow the citizens of this country to measure the standards of service that they receive from their local authorities . |
| 3 | Although all but a small part of the encircling wall has gone , the older part of the city , with its narrow winding streets which witnessed so much of Scotland 's history , is still clearly separate from the New Town , the two being surrounded by the Victorian and Edwardian developments . |
| 4 | On the other hand , a normal CDAI of less than 150 but a high scan score indicating active Crohn 's disease was recorded in three scans . |
| 5 | It is not suggested that any but a small proportion of private homes are like this , but where such conditions do occur , it indicates that the vetting , registration and monitoring procedures are failing . |
| 6 | In 1651 Parliament appointed commissioners to sell Exmoor Forest , which was reported to be ‘ mountainous and cold ground , much beclouded with thick fogges and mists and … overgrown with heath and yielding but a poor kind of turf of little value there . ’ |
| 7 | He was n't a composer as such but a great translator , not just a violin but also a violinist , an Itzhak Perlman of actors . ’ |