Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] but [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are several blank pages after this but perhaps another minute book , now lost , was started . |
| 2 | Made by the Japanese firm of Saga ( the same people who brought us the Lowden-esque Trameleuc acoustics , plus reissues of Maccaferri gypsy jazz guitars and Regal wooden-bodied resophonics ) these new acoustics sell under the name of O.C. Smith and promise an interesting combination of European but strongly American-influenced design , together with Japanese efficiency and affordability . |
| 3 | In an act of admirable but ultimately misguided loyalty , the national coach Andy Roxburgh stood by his dispirited keeper . |
| 4 | These had been drawn without any reference to , or sometimes even without the knowledge of , their inhabitants and therefore had no national or even protonational significance for their populations ; except for colonial-educated and westernised native minorities of varying but generally exiguous size . |
| 5 | The distortions which occur under a system of all but exclusively local authority house-building — the tendency to conform to the past rather than the future location of population ( with consequent immobilisation of labour ) , the wrong proportion of houses of different sizes , and the provision of more amenities than those for which tenants are prepared to pay the economic price — these will naturally correct themselves when private building is restored . |
| 6 | As he was conducting them across the dozen or so yards , the Archimandrite appeared to touch Miss Fergusson 's elbow by way of courteous but strictly unnecessary guidance . |
| 7 | I looked out of the wind-shaken carriage , where people were moaning and cursing and making vows to start going by bus , or take the car next time , or buy a car , or learn to drive … looked out through the rain-spattered sheets of glass , watching the cold January day leach out of the grey skies above the drenched city , and witnessed the rain fall upon the tramped-on , pissed-on , shat-on grass of the narrow path in the scrubby field with a feeling of wry but nevertheless wretched empathy . |
| 8 | An instrument of smaller but yet great importance was the " talkie cinema " acquired by the School at about the same time . |
| 9 | The member for Worcester City was on this occasion one of the dozen or so gentlemen who , after most late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century general elections , as a sort of ritual but somewhat haphazard sacrifice to virtue made by an easy-going society , were unseated on petition for allegedly corrupt electoral practices . |
| 10 | He was a freelance commercial artist , and a painter of potential but too little application . |
| 11 | ‘ In the end it was not to be for Donal but hopefully one day they will find a cure . ’ |
| 12 | The filopodia pull the sheet right across the cavity until it makes contact with the other side where it meets and fuses with another but much smaller invagination which is the future mouth . |
| 13 | It was without a speck of dirt or grime , the old wooden floors white with constant scrubbing ; the pallets on which the sick lay were furnished with coarse but spotlessly clean linen . |
| 14 | His natural talent and readiness to learn , together with irregular but extremely fruitful attendance at the Istituto di Belle Arti , were to make of him the amazing so-called ‘ painter of Old Masters ’ . |
| 15 | On the way back to his conversation the barman punched a button on the television and suddenly they were in Texas , where folk lived and loved fit to bust and discussed it all in idiomatic but poorly synchronized Italian . |
| 16 | The widespread acceptance of floating exchange rates has been associated with a period of less favourable economic developments , such as massive payments imbalances arising from large but often irregular oil prices increases , declining commodity prices ( which seriously affect less developed economies ) , high interest rates during the 1980s ( which worsened the debt position of many countries ) , and lower average economic growth compared with the Bretton Woods era . |
| 17 | A breath on the flames , and there would be fire from end to end of the march ; and the Prince was in urgent but still friendly correspondence with King Henry in the effort to settle the dissensions peacefully and without affront to either Welsh or English honour . |
| 18 | An objection which has been raised by Jürgen Moltmann ( see chapter 7 ) and by others who have been concerned to set our present time in the light of the eschatological emphasis of the New Testament is that Barth and his allies in the 1920s who aimed to recover that emphasis in fact misinterpreted it by twisting it into the ‘ eternal moment ’ of the encounter between time and eternity , ; and that his mature theology distorted it in a-different but equally damaging fashion by swallowing up the whole of time and history in the central history of Jesus Christ , and by dissolving that away in turn in the eternal self-determination of God within the council of the Trinity to be ‘ God for man ’ . |
| 19 | Mr. W. E. Gladstone was Prime Minister from 1880 to 1885 but then that post alternated between the Marquess of Salisbury and Mr. Gladstone until the turn of the century , with a short interlude in 1894–1895 when the Earl of Rosebery was in that office . |
| 20 | The subject working parties have proved more independent of mind and judgement than critics had expected : less like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern ( ‘ You were sent for : and there is a kind of confession in your looks which your modesties have not craft enough to colour ’ ) ; more , perhaps , like Polonius , given to worthy but occasionally tedious advice . |
| 21 | Investment over the 1992–1994 period at £5.4 billion is forecast to be 22 p.c. down on the 1989–91 levels after allowing for inflation and the lowest since 1984–86 but still 30 p.c. higher than the depth of recession in 1981–1983 . |