Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [art] [adj] but [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From here we take the road marked Curral das Freiras for a short but very scenic and awe-inspiring drive . |
| 2 | Out takes place at an unspecified time several decades after the unexplained but presumably cataclysmic event known as the ‘ displacement ’ . |
| 3 | North of the village are the ‘ bings ’ or spoil-heaps of an important but relatively short-lived Scottish chemical industry — the extraction of oil from shale . |
| 4 | SABRE is an airline reservation system , developed by American Airlines in the 1960s but now generally available . |
| 5 | Hilyer ( whose character is apparently the Patron Saint of actors ) is , however , excellent , while Rae Smith 's idiosyncratic costume designs and the lighting by Paul Russell also make very effective contributions to an uneven but often rewarding evening . |
| 6 | If you add a second set of stripes , at right angles to the first but also moving at right angles to their axis , the person will not see two sets of stripes but a set of chevrons moving at 45 degrees to the true directions of movement . |
| 7 | The facts of deixis should act as a constant reminder to theoretical linguists of the simple but immensely important fact that natural languages are primarily designed , so to speak , for use in face-to-face interaction , and thus there are limits to the extent to which they can be analysed without taking this into account ( Lyons , 1977a : 589ff ) . |
| 8 | Therefore we turn to you for help in ways to make lightweight canoes in a cheap but very safe manner . |
| 9 | His alertness , however , hardly resembles the quizzical interrogations of the puzzled but essentially self-effacing philosopher Palomar ; it is the wide-awakeness of a picaresque hero on the make . |
| 10 | Two hot records from the obscure but heavily collected Hooj Choons label from Felix and Hyper Go-Go , plus The Ragga Twins ’ fine ‘ Shine Eye ’ , Peter Bouncer 's ‘ So Here I Come ’ , plus Finitribe , Phuture Assassins etc . |
| 11 | In the same way , attempts by a small but highly articulate pressure group around the journal Nature , founded in 1869 to argue for the social utility of scientific research , gained only limited success . |
| 12 | There are one or two cathedrals on a similar but slightly larger , more ambitious scale ; Västerås and Strängnäs , both on Lake Mälar , are two of these . |