Example sentences of "[adj] but [adv] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Treasury 's task was made easier by the unrealistic but much heralded target of the National Plan , produced by the Department , to achieve an annual growth rate of 4 per cent . |
| 2 | As a scholar and theorist , Hirsch is known , apart from his unfashionable but vigorously argued advocacy of intentionalism , for his conviction that literature is not a coherent concept , and has no definable essence , and that by extension ‘ English ’ as a discipline has no absolute method . |
| 3 | More surprising , and to Paviour more confounding and conciliating at the same time , was the presence of Gus Hambro , busy with a large clip-board , charting on squared paper the patch of ground to be taken up , and sketching a hurried but accurately proportioned elevation of the exposed vault of the flue . |
| 4 | The ridge is stony but easily followed south to its highest point , at 2170 feet , indicated by an Ordnance column . |
| 5 | Wednesday was a day of interminable meetings , during which the split over unemployment benefit between MacDonald and a substantial but fluctuatingly composed group of his Cabinet began to assume its final form . |
| 6 | The orphanage 's overriding function was not only to care for the destitute but also to protect society from dangerous children as there was a fear that roaming , unsupervised youngsters posed a threat to social order . |
| 7 | A bailor has it against a mere bailee at pleasure even if he never himself had actual possession of the goods and only acquired title by virtue of an illegal but completely executed contract of sale . |
| 8 | There is clearly a complex but poorly understood interaction between climatic change , vegetation dynamics , machair formation , sea-level rise , and human settlement in the Outer Hebrides that would repay further study ( Whittington and Ritchie , 1988 ) . |
| 9 | This depressing but widely held view of life in old age is the foundation upon which judgements are made about individual worth . |
| 10 | Skiing : Park City creates a fantasy on the carpet John Samuel reports from Utah on an artificial but nonetheless entrancing start to the World Cup season . |
| 11 | The Group 's largest and longest established operation is in oil-rich Kuwait , a small but strategically placed country at the top of what used to be known as the Persian gulf — now politically just referred to as the gulf . |
| 12 | Marlon Brando had a small but perfectly formed part as the detective who leaves town after being beaten up by three upstanding racist citizens . |
| 13 | However , if the clause contains two or more restrictions , the court may hold one unreasonable but still allow reliance on the other , provided that the two are severable . |
| 14 | The common denominator of this type of use is not therefore non-entailment but rather viewing knowledge of the referent denoted by the direct object of know as a condition for attributing what the infinitive denotes to this referent . |
| 15 | Kinnock improved his image most on being energetic and decisive but actually lost ground on being able to stand up to the USSR , reflecting perhaps the consequences of his ‘ dad 's army ’ interview with David Frost . |
| 16 | It shows a more mundane but still corrupting insensitivity to liberty , a failure to grasp its force and place in modern democratic ideals … . |
| 17 | Such work makes an association between psychological writing and apparently non-psychological narrative forms , which points up the ubiquitous but usually denied role of these forms in psychological discourses.i |