Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] but [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In summer the gardens would have looked colourful and pretty but somehow in the depths of the Provençal winter they appeared melancholy . |
| 2 | A repertoire of ornament of a vernacular baroque character is applied with varying degrees of restraint , while the interiors , usually arranged with the hall and saloon across the centre and the staircase to one side , are enriched with fine joinery and plaster-work but little in the way of spatial incident . |
| 3 | Mr Jenkins kept the school Clean and neat and tidy But deep inside the boiler room He kept … |
| 4 | The General and Municipal union 's white collar section ( MATSA ) has started an experimental recruitment campaign aimed not just at " non-standard " workers who are part-time and temporary but also at the self-employed . |
| 5 | They give little attention not only to how it is understood and experienced but also to the relations between bureaucracies and elected politicians . |