Example sentences of "[adj] but [adv] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today 's Himalayan climbers must have immense strength and vitality , must acclimatise very carefully , should be fully skilled and experienced , must be alert to danger yet hardened enough not to be critically frightened ( and mountains are very frightening places ) by any unexpected trauma ; be patient during storms , determined in attack and wise in retreat ; be a skilful diplomat and a team player ; be compassionate but sometimes have a touch of selfishness . |
| 2 | Marathon leader , Britain 's Francis Tuthill was more cautious but still spun the Porsche twice and was passed once on a stage by second-placed Australian Ian Vaughan ( Ford Falcon ) . |
| 3 | Such people , in his and Val 's world , were not quite real but still walked the earth . |
| 4 | Other communities , less diagnostic but equally representing the tundra , occur in less optimal conditions . |
| 5 | The Milan Congress not only severely retarded the development of generations of deaf children for whom the Oral Method was totally inappropriate but also caused the loss of hundreds of teaching jobs held by deaf people throughout the world in schools for the deaf . |
| 6 | I will be very brief but just to welcome the fact that in we have been waiting for nearly fifty years |
| 7 | This list is by no means exhaustive but broadly covers the field . |
| 8 | Now might it not be also a very good idea then to report back to another public meeting with the results of those suggestions possibly done in a written form which could be freely available before the meeting so that people can discuss these in a structured way because I think this evening one of the problems about this evening is that points are being missed because issues are being jumped from one to another in no structured way and I think that it might be worth while for another meeting where it is structured but certainly to produce the results of your discussions internally to many of the ideas that you 've heard this evening . |
| 9 | The objection that Foucault neglects history because he does not attempt to give reasons why the epistemic shifts he describes occurred is perhaps inevitable but also begs the question : for conventional historiography has in general done nothing but account for such shifts — which has meant that it has consistently failed to recognize alterity and incommensurability in its insistent search for continuities with the past . |
| 10 | This is a good ploy to get the children to shout loud but then to contain the noise within the call . |
| 11 | Also , status may form the basis of political power — Weber saw this as especially relevant in the case of the German Junker aristocracy , who were economically weak but still held the reins of political power . |
| 12 | You run an intersection , looking neither left nor right but simply slapping the gas and driving across . |
| 13 | At all ages , dog-whelks feed on discrete , easily identifiable , macroscopic sedentary prey ( upon which they remain for many hours or days ) which not only renders predator/prey investigations in the field possible but also facilitates the maintenance of these animals in aquaria . |
| 14 | MR MAJOR appealed to the nation last night not to turn its back on 13 years of Conservative rule as the latest opinion polls showed the Tories narrowing the gap with Labour but still facing the prospect of losing power . |
| 15 | He looked tired but nevertheless managed a smile as he caught sight of his two employees and walked over to join them . |
| 16 | SLIGHTLY tired but spiritually refreshed a group from Middlesbrough area returned at the end of October from a memorable series of visits . |
| 17 | As a journalist having a career break I do get itchy fingers and long to turn out something that will look good but not cost the earth . |
| 18 | The most appealing aspect of The Smiths is their charisma — working class street boys made good but still retain an aura of mystery . |
| 19 | For example , contacting users ' families not only causes unpleasantness for the individual concerned but also damages the centres ' carefully nurtured congenial atmosphere . |
| 20 | The PC-based IPA is now available but still needs a PC with an extended working memory of 4 Megabytes . |
| 21 | Parkin looked worried but then snorted a laugh through his chiselled nose . |
| 22 | According to former Mexican Communist Valentin Campa , the attitudes to the Russian revolution of intellectuals such as Ricardo Flores Magón , who was not a Marxist but initially saw the Bolsheviks as ‘ the true internationalists ’ , and leaders such as Emiliano Zapata , were influential in the decision to form a Communist party . |
| 23 | Right , what made we want to be , I wanted to be a policeman when I was very young but never had the courage to do it . |
| 24 | For feminists to see all men as ‘ potential rapists ’ is not only grossly simplistic but also denies the specificity of crime and criminal , as well as women 's own potential ( suppressed into depression , self-hatred , and inertia ) to be aggressive and violent , to abuse , batter , and murder — and to consume pornography . |