Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [adj] but [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should apparent fragmentation get out of hand , control over policy will be overtly centralized , or a new but equally fraudulent decentralization of state organizations will be devised . |
| 2 | Elsewhere , the twin bells of a sturdily traditional wind-up clock squeal , wakening another slumbering pair , younger , fresher , clearly less ossified in their morning habits than the first but equally resistant to the day . |
| 3 | Such a theory will find it hard to repudiate the accusation of being little more than a clever but patently transparent artifice . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Tom Emmett 's story is laced with thick Yorkshire dialect ; Ted Barratt , another left-arm bowler , prolific but unlucky , is rescued from the deepest obscurity of them all ; the colourful George Ulyett is seen as ‘ a sort of Victorian Ian Botham ’ , and was involved in the scandal over match-rigging on the 1881–82 tour of Australia ( to say nothing of a gatecrashing at 10 Downing Street ) ; the weird William Scotton lurks here too ; and the elegant but equally tragic Willie Bates ; and the outrageous Bobby Peel , the longest-lived of them all , by a long way , and the fourth Yorkie in the collection . |
| 6 | With fitzAlan , de Villiers and a chastened but still influential Bishop of Winchester listening to every word , Isabel had answered as best she could in the hope that by doing so she might appease her conscience . |
| 7 | Lying in bed later , after a solitary supper of chicken salad and almond flan , and a defiant but remarkably uneventful evening stroll alone along the quayside , sleep frustratingly eluded her , as if to prove her point . |
| 8 | The concentration of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 was significantly higher in malignant ascites ( 736 ( 213–165 ) ng/ml ) than in alcoholic ascites ( 16 ( <2–43 ) ng/ml , p<0.05 ) , and a similar but less pronounced pattern was found for plasminogen activator inhibitor-2 ( 43 ( <6- 140 ) ng ml in malignant ascites v <6 ( <6–28 ) ng/ ml in alcoholic ascites , p<0.05 ) . |
| 9 | I met a teacher recently , one of our best , the sort of charismatic individual with a ready smile , a mind full of anarchic ideas , a love of literature and an effortless but much practised classroom skill which bounces back from the interested eyes 0& his students . |
| 10 | Asked to elaborate , she lays out a series of proposals only slightly to the left of the League of Women Voters : universal voter registration , inclusion of minor-party candidates in presidential debates , revival of the Fairness Doctrine for broadcasters , ‘ direct democracy ’ in the form of citizen referendums on national issues like the budget , and an all-encompassing but vaguely articulated ‘ economic democracy ’ . |
| 11 | The Wolverhampton rose-grower David Austin ( who has led the way , and to whom the world of roses owes a vast debt of gratitude ) has continued and persisted , with the result that what have become known as English and New English roses now contain recurrent flowering varieties , a very wide colour range , fragrance , vigour , and an undefinable but strangely characteristic old-fashioned charm and flower formation . |
| 12 | Perhaps this was just as well since the jolly but rather juvenile japes her sister embarked upon might not have pleased her . |