Example sentences of "[adj] but [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a big stage event with a very abstract brief , very exciting but not a fancy dress show . ’ |
| 2 | The centrodorsal plate is usually conspicuous but not the primary plates . |
| 3 | But they were not all the same groups within the different daily and Sunday categories each year : for instance , Beaverbrook was a top daily but not a top Sunday group in 1947 . |
| 4 | Moreover , in decisively increasing the importance of the literate culture , it had the effect of a new kind of stratification , in which the cultural but also the social importance of the still oral majority culture declined . |
| 5 | As with all the other special effects of camp environment , those produced by sex starvation were not organically different but merely the ordinary trends aggravated and emphasized . |
| 6 | New price lists tell and interesting but not a consistent story . |
| 7 | I mean but interesting but not the ideal answer . |
| 8 | He then asks " how should one recognise authority ? " and answers that " degrees only prove knowledge ; look among those who really love art and literature " , and he goes on to conclude : " The artist , if he really is an artist , possesses absolute value which he can not lose : the man of science , once refuted or superseded , retains no absolute but only an historical importance . " |
| 9 | The policy behind section 6 of the Sexual Offences Act is presumably that Parliament considered that a girl under 16 is generally unlikely to be sufficiently mature to realise the full implications of sexual intercourse ; so that her protection demands that a belief by a man under the age of 24 that she herself was over the age of 16 should not be only an honest but also a reasonable belief . ’ |
| 10 | I do not intend to have a restrictive but rather an expansive definition . |
| 11 | These are balls too big and important to juggle carelessly and Hooto ( TM ) , earnest , needy , industrious but essentially an intellectual featherweight , does n't even manage to lift them off the ground . |
| 12 | The wheel , at Laxey , pumps water from the lead mines , now disused but once a major source of employment for Manxmen . |
| 13 | Formally , B is A 's subordinate but informally a good part of the organisation centres upon B with little reference to A. |
| 14 | I hope everything is running smoothly , including the car and the piano , and of course woozle-cat — tell her I have a pet cockroach in my bedroom which is quite large but not a good substitute . |
| 15 | The use of translation is the most obvious but not the only problem in the transmission of what are cultural as well as intellectual texts . |
| 16 | Where the damage is insidious and not discovered until later , eg industrial diseases , the provisions of s14 of the Limitation Act 1980 which define " knowledge " may delay the running of limitation even further , until the plaintiff knows not only that he is ill but also the likely cause . |
| 17 | Wilson did put some flesh on the bones in a television interview with Norman Hunt , only to have it torn off in strips by the venerable Bridges , long since retired but still a determined advocate of a unitary Treasury dominating economic policy from the centre . |
| 18 | The distinctiveness of the Swedish strategy will be seen to hinge on the central notions of citizenship and representation : on the one hand the deepening and extension of these on a universalistic basis in not only the political but also the economic sphere ; on the other hand their restriction within not only the economic but also the political sphere . |
| 19 | Whipped Cream are Scandinavian but even the odd accent does n't drag this version far enough from the original to make it an interpretation rather than a facsimile . |
| 20 | Blocking the activity of GABA eliminates the conditioned but not the unconditioned response . |
| 21 | The distinctiveness of the Swedish strategy will be seen to hinge on the central notions of citizenship and representation : on the one hand the deepening and extension of these on a universalistic basis in not only the political but also the economic sphere ; on the other hand their restriction within not only the economic but also the political sphere . |
| 22 | The sergeant was buoyant and resilient but sometimes a dark mood ambushed him . |
| 23 | Ah well sure but then the whole lot goes , but , but , but , but , but this was , this was the document , I mean the way this was put forward , this is going to last us through into the foreseeable future . |
| 24 | For the mayor of that city it is less terrible but still a serious problem . |
| 25 | To yank someone entirely out of their time and smack them around for not being of our time is perhaps a salutary but only a limited exercise . |
| 26 | The graft , like the long spade , has a slightly rounded cutting edge , which again needs to have a good but not a sharp edge to it . |
| 27 | For instance , restriction of the opportunity for reproduction in Drosophila to 3–6-day-old flies for 120 generations resulted in a fall in the late but not the early-life fecundity of females in these ’ r' lines relative to that of females of ’ K' lines where adults of any age could breed . |
| 28 | He was a brilliant but also a tortured thinker , in many ways a solitary and tragic figure , his personality marked by a tendency to depression , and by the decision he made in 1843 to break off his engagement to Regine Olsen . |
| 29 | First-hand experience is invaluable but only a limited amount of it can be arranged and you certainly ca n't have large numbers of trainees sitting at the back of the same class . |
| 30 | It was a noisy but not a violent affair , the clashes between the Blackshirts and the Red Front outside being mainly verbal . |