Example sentences of "[adj] but not [art] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | New price lists tell and interesting but not a consistent story . |
| 3 | I mean but interesting but not the ideal answer . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Blocking the activity of GABA eliminates the conditioned but not the unconditioned response . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was a noisy but not a violent affair , the clashes between the Blackshirts and the Red Front outside being mainly verbal . |
| 10 | Divine worship is an important but not the only concern here . |
| 11 | The exhibition most deliberately linked to Columbus was that at the Musée Barbier-Mueller in Geneva , the catalogue for which is a magnificent book , written by eight authors , half of whose essays were translated into French ( Spanish and Catalan editions are available but not an English translation ) . |
| 12 | Lord himself was a capable but not an outstanding player . |
| 13 | By contrast , artists normally strive , at least supposedly , for a general but not a specific truth , for a truth to life — however defined — but not a truth to particular individuals . |
| 14 | Clearly an equitable geographical distribution of services is a necessary but not a sufficient precondition for an equal , let alone an equitable , use of services . |
| 15 | Fifth thesis : Research is a necessary but not a sufficient ingredient for higher education |
| 16 | Second there is general agreement that a minimum level of literacy is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for the process of industrialisation . |
| 17 | A commitment ideologically and professionally to a holistic assessment of need and risk , rather than the assessment of eligibility for service , is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for effective assessment practice . |
| 18 | In Oxfordshire , for example , nursery classes ( for three to five year olds ) were forced to close , nursery placements being an allowed but not a compulsory provision . |