Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] but [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't go because I was suddenly seized by an overwhelming passion for him , we did n't make love on the tiger-skin rug in that little box of a room you gave him , his pear-shaped body pressed against my ageing but still voluptuous frame . ’ |
| 2 | The latter set about restoring its decrepit but largely unaltered state , uncovering the great stone fireplace in the hall . |
| 3 | How magically her love for the boys had developed into , contrasted with , reinforced her different but equally powerful passion for her daughters : how strange but inevitable had appeared the five-pointed constellation of their heroic family . |
| 4 | Each plot was worked by a group of apprentices to produce the leeks , potatoes and brassicas that were the staples of their unimaginative but reasonably nourishing diet . |
| 5 | The encoded information shot out at her misted but still functional retina to form generic groupings that became words flitting across her mind . |
| 6 | Any such attempt has to look closely at their chastened but ultimately unchastenable hero , at his hostility , at his stylistic authority and command of the books he belongs to . |
| 7 | Stella Havard speaks to Trish Gardiner about her difficult but highly talented dressage horse WILY IMP |
| 8 | Feminist psychological theories ' inadequacies seem to be due to their close but largely unexamined relationship with this concept . |
| 9 | In his prejudiced but occasionally interesting Labour and the Benn Factor ( Macdonald £12.95 ) , Michael Cocks recalls Benn on the train after a party conference wandering up and down the carriage saying : ‘ Has anybody seen a pair of National Health Service glasses ? ’ |
| 10 | Again , Manville felt a slight sense of marvel at the processes of his own brain , his devious but quite unconscious way of running ahead of his own thoughts and frequently alighting on off-beat answers . |
| 11 | The case was heard by an exceptionally unconventional judge , but one of sound common sense , Mr Justice Caulfield , who more recently found fame in his unorthodox but equally commonsensical summing-up in the Jeffrey Archer action , where his description of Mrs Archer as ‘ fragrant ’ , no doubt causing great embarrassment to the lady , will go down in the history of judicial extravagance . |
| 12 | Save for … but he refused in his quaint but thoroughly determined way to evade or apologize any more . |
| 13 | His ambitious but financially unprofitable venture with George Perry , ironmaster for the Coalbrookdale Company , to publish views of Liverpool by Michael Angelo Rooker [ q.v. ] , a map ( 1769 ) , and a history of the town , was completed after Burdett withdrew to chase more promising interests , but his drawings of public buildings , engraved by Edward Rooker [ q.v. ] , appeared in the history , published in 1773 . |
| 14 | But just as the " Miller 's " energies are concentrated in his sustained and masterful display as a raconteur , the spleen of the Reeve is released in his self-reflection and in his pointed but ultimately harmless fabliau . |
| 15 | On the rare nights that he was not in The Bar Boy would lay out all these papers in a circle on the floor around his bed ( he had this affectation of keeping his bed , a mattress on the floor , in the centre of his small but almost empty room ) . |
| 16 | Thus the place was already steeped in history when Lord Williams decided to build his modest but very modern hunting lodge , between the inner and middle moat . |
| 17 | Two and a half million pounds may sound a lot to run a profession of just over 7,000 practising barristers — but we are only able to hold that figure by reason of the hard work from our small but totally dedicated Secretariat , and by the voluntary work of many members of the profession . |