Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] but [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the context of civil proceedings , international judicial assistance is primarily concerned with the service of documents , ‘ process ’ of one sort or another but also extrajudicial documents of significance , and the taking of evidence ; post-trial assistance , in the form of the enforcement of judgments and orders , is traditionally treated as a ( major ) topic in its own right . |
| 2 | As a result the system can be used in large rooms , or long but relatively narrow rooms , but conversely is ill-suited for use across the narrow dimension of most rooms , which can work well with many other transducers . |
| 3 | ‘ Others , including myself , believe that non-punitive but truly compensatory damages awarded by the courts of the United Kingdom are preferable to the exorbitance of emotionally-driven jury awards , ’ he said . |
| 4 | And interesting but only interesting novels could be taken to the post office for distribution to the armed forces . |
| 5 | Following several years of development work and unsuccessful but nevertheless promising trials in late 1905 and early 1906 , he won the support of John ( later first Earl ) Jellicoe , ( Sir ) Percy Scott , and Sir John ( later first Baron ) Fisher [ qq.v. ] , which resulted in the establishment of an agreement to perfect the civilian inventor 's ideas for a mechanical system of using observed ranges and bearings to calculate firing solutions for naval artillery that would take account of the relative motion of the firing ship and target . |
| 6 | It is n't hard to see here , once again , Pound 's baffled exasperation that , instead of setting up shop as maître d'école , ‘ the very learned British Museum assistant ’ should resolutely duck back into doing such a worthy and humane but undoubtedly over-modest activity as editing such of the letters of his old friend Hewlett as could not conceivably give offence . |
| 7 | In Egypt native and Persian kings attracted not only Greek and Carian but also Jewish mercenaries . |
| 8 | Stephen Spender divides writers into ‘ contemporaries ’ and ‘ moderns ’ ( 1962:555 ) ; Malcolm Bradbury distinguishes between the main current of fiction and peripheral but nevertheless important work by people like Samuel Beckett , Malcolm Lowry , William Golding , and Lawrence Durrell ( 1973 ) ; and Iris Murdoch draws a distinction between the ‘ journalistic ’ and the ‘ crystalline ’ which delineates similar categories . |
| 9 | On the face of the planet there lies , assembled into one immense and complicated but always inter-connected body , a quantity of some 329 million cubic miles of water — the sea . |
| 10 | For example , most elderly people who are married have always lived only with their spouse , and small but fairly constant proportions have always lived in residential institutions of one kind or another ( Wall , 1984 ) . |
| 11 | There are heavy frames , light dainty frames , expensive frames and inexpensive but still attractive ones , as well as older styles or very modern designs . |
| 12 | When Hannah was a child , running water meant the stream in the field and such things as electricity , the internal combustion engine and even the wireless were available only on another planet or so it must have seemed to the average resident of this remote and lovely but intensely deprived valley . |
| 13 | Kun is quickwitted and charming ; his easy grace and sweet but never cloying tone are a real boon in the playful little Rosenkavalier -like inflexions which characterize so much of the score ( Bernstein was always so Viennese at heart ) ; his quiet contemplative manner pays rich dividends in the slow movement , ‘ Agathon ’ ( seven of Bernstein 's most poised and affecting minutes ) . |
| 14 | On human rights , many consider the torture , disappearances , murders and bombings of innocent civilians as unpleasant but absolutely necessary elements of the war . |
| 15 | We had the equivalent of paperbacks at 50p as well as beautiful but more expensive delights . |