Example sentences of "[conj] [det] but [art] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The report , in paragraph 480 , records that all the professional bodies which gave evidence recommended that patients aged between 16 and 18 should be able to give an effective consent to treatment and all but the Medical Protection Society recommended that they should also be able to give an effective refusal . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | As all but the uppermost part of the mantle appears capable of viscous flow when subject to prolonged stress , the semirigid lithosphere , capped by continental or oceanic crust , can be viewed as ‘ floating ’ on the underlying asthenosphere ( the most easily deformable viscous part of the mantle ) . |