Example sentences of "[be] [adj] but the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The type of notes you make are personal but the important point is that you can follow them with only a glance . |
| 2 | Frivolous frou-frou feathers , spikey mules and a high hairstyle are crucial but the main accessory is attitude — if you 're going to wear it , flaunt it . |
| 3 | She feels that exhortations are fine but the real purpose of a writer should not be dissolved in the political ideas of the time . |
| 4 | Whiskers and ears are optional but the squeaky voice is essential ! |
| 5 | The works , of course , are abstract but the recurring allure of the title for the artist , with its two words suggestive of expansiveness , geometry and large areas of modulated colour , seems clear . |
| 6 | I 'll be erm I 'll be absolutely I 'm sorry but the dreaded lurgy so erm I 'll do my best . |
| 7 | The information transmission will inevitably be two-way but the main purpose may be transmission from interviewer to interviewee as in an appraisal interview , from interviewee to interviewer as in an opinion survey , or it may change direction during the course of the interview as in a patient-doctor interview . |
| 8 | Chronic sulphasalazine treatment does not seem to be nephrotoxic but the systemic absorption of 5-ASA from sulphasalazine is relatively low . |
| 9 | This would be fine but the natural type of memory for a modern machine , a 286 or 386 , is extended memory and this means that often a machine will have 4 or 8 MBytes of memory that a simple spreadsheet just can not make use of . |
| 10 | ‘ Cereal can be healthy but the nutritional value depends on the one you pick , ’ said Magazine editor David Dickinson . |
| 11 | This covers all types of mental handicap , including mild cases where social and environmental factors are known to be important but the exact nature of the problem is less well known . |
| 12 | ( Examination plans tend to be briefer but the mental training in ordinary essays is important . ) |
| 13 | Progress will inevitably be slow but the dual-task technique offers the possibility of determining something of the nature of the dynamic interaction between the two hemispheres . |
| 14 | Roger Bootle , MGM 's chief UK economist , said UK progress would be slow but the gradual recovery would be soundly based . |
| 15 | This gave the sociology of knowledge a specific task in studying the sociological features on which systems of knowledge were dependent but the critical edge and the proposition of relationism had disappeared . |
| 16 | None of the 120 children aged under 6 who were tested were seropositive but the true prevalence could be as high as 2.5% ( the upper limit of the 95% confidence interval ) . |
| 17 | These things are expensive but the crucial thing is that both my name and the name of the RCN has been cleared . ’ |
| 18 | At Arles nearby the screen wall is not in such good condition ; the design is similar but the Corinthian Order is used instead of Doric ( PLATE 26 ) . |
| 19 | It is not only the Children Act which is under-funded but the entire spectrum of Local Government and the National Health Services . |
| 20 | The short term risk is great but the long-term risk of not following this course of action is even greater . |
| 21 | Safety glazing is effective but the high cost sometimes prohibits its use in private dwellings . |
| 22 | It is not whether the idea is correct but the great scope o f the vision that should interest us . |
| 23 | The style is emotive but the intellectual understanding informing it has an astringent clarity which is very moving . |
| 24 | And failing that , the class war as interpreted by Engels , a war of which nothing is certain but the absolute uncertainty of its outcome . ’ ’ |
| 25 | If the ground state is degenerate but the excited state is not , the Boltzmann distribution will determine the intensities of the right- and left-circularly polarized absorptions from the Zeeman levels of the ground state . |
| 26 | Part of the half-span has split off and is collapsing but the other half is sound . |
| 27 | The degree to which publicans ‘ invested ’ for this reason in football is unknown but the pecuniary advantage at first sight seems doubtful . |
| 28 | MacQuillan 's was brown but the other man 's … |
| 29 | The Dee at Chester was fishable but the only action was from 40 cormorants who have taken up residence above the weir . |
| 30 | Martin Luther King won the Nobel Peace Prize and Nelson Mandela was jailed for life ; Winston Churchill was 90 but the only fighting on the beaches was between the Mods and Rockers . |