Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] but [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only that but a collective bargain is a method of suppressing individual differences between workers . |
| 2 | [ Liverpool 's ] great stations — Lime Street , the Central and the Exchange — are centres of bustling life , of passengers coming and going ; and scarcely a day passes without the reminder that the city by the Mersey is not only English but the Continental portal to the New World . |
| 3 | The miracles express both the belief in a God who reaches out and ‘ touches ’ — a God who can heal — and also the fact that not only healing but the whole message of Jesus is for all people . |
| 4 | The owner 's home brew is much cheaper but an acquired taste ; the more you acquire , the less you taste it . |
| 5 | Within sets of pictures and patterns to match , it is often possible to develop games where the matching is not merely one-to-one but a complete set of a kind is collected instead , e.g. Happy Families . |
| 6 | This duality of matter and spirit implied a hypocrisy which unsympathetic observers considered to be not merely all-pervasive but a fundamental characteristic of the bourgeois world . |
| 7 | The Chief Met Officer , Wing Commander Thomas , or ‘ Tommy ’ as he was always called by us behind his back , was immensely popular but a strict disciplinarian . |
| 8 | Technically the state of the art seems to be that systems are most efficient , reliable and safe when control is largely automatic but the human operator remains in a monitoring and supervisory role . |
| 9 | The main beach is sandy and normally sheltered but an easterly storm will bring up masses of seaweed which occasionally has to be carted away . |
| 10 | Farming journalists and politicians who visit New Zealand come back convinced life without subsidies is not just attractive but a realistic option — an argument they generally base on claims that British farmers by conventional standards are amongst the most efficient in Europe . |
| 11 | Several of L'Orient 's editions of that autumn had also disappeared and in later issues , articles about the new Phalange party — the headlines still intact but the accompanying text missing — had been crudely cut from the pages . |
| 12 | Here the view is slightly more extensive but the broad top hides all valley details . |
| 13 | Some such as financial resources are easily specifiable , others such as not contravening the mores of the organisation are more elusive but a key aspect of these skills is sensitivity to limitations and obstacles as well as positive assets ( Singleton , 1981 ) . |
| 14 | The second characteristic , the contemporaneity of historical time , that is , the category of the historical present , is more complex but an essential element in the whole Hegelian model of history , indeed is its condition of possibility . |
| 15 | Along the prom the amusements and rides were still open but the bad weather had kept people away . |
| 16 | Not only are cordless tools more convenient but the low voltage is safer than mains operated ones and they are quieter in operation . |
| 17 | Conversion at common law may be committed in so many different ways that any comprehensive definition is probably impossible but the connecting thread running through the cases seems to be that the wrong is committed by a dealing with the goods of a person which constitutes an unjustifiable denial of his rights in them or the assertion of rights inconsistent therewith . |
| 18 | I had cut my hand on the gun : it was n't bleeding much but the little finger was bent sideways and I could n't move it . |
| 19 | Celie remains uncomplicated and straight forward but the childish brevity sets the right tone of gratuitous violence for Celie 's early vision of the world . |
| 20 | So with increased age there is a switching of health rating from good to fairly good but no large increase in the percentage classing themselves as in poor health . |
| 21 | It sounds quite absurd but the other day I walked up the footpath from the road just to see if it was . |
| 22 | The local relief is relatively subdued but the mean elevation is some 5000 m with isolated masses of probable volcanic origin rising to between 6000 and 7000 m ; the Tibetan Plateau is thus by far the highest plateau of significant extent on the Earth 's surface . |
| 23 | The Radio Authority codes are quite satisfactory but the Independent TV Commission codes are another matter . |
| 24 | At high speeds the freewheeling time is relatively long but the effective phase voltage is unchanged , even though the bridge diodes are conducting for a substantial part of the cycle . |
| 25 | The muscling of the shoulders and especially the thighs is almost obscene but the small-boned carcass and large body produce an abundance of lean meat . |
| 26 | 5.13.2 If called upon to do so to furnish to the Landlord the Surveyor or any person acting as the third party determining the rent in default of agreement between the parties under any provisions for rent review contained in this Lease such information as may [ reasonably ] be requested in writing in relation to any pending or intended step under the 1954 Act or the implementation of any provisions for rent review This seems quite innocuous but an unreasonable landlord could become a nuisance and apart from ensuring that " reasonably " is included , the tenant should also begin each subclause as follows : If called upon to do so ( but not more frequently than may be reasonable ) |
| 27 | Install a hard drive instead of one of the floppies — the advantage of this is that it is the least expensive but the major disadvantage is my complete lack of technical knowledge and the need to purchase and install the controller which I understand my machine does not have . |
| 28 | Subsidiary buildings escaped relatively unscathed but the main block was completely gutted , only the outer shell remaining . |
| 29 | The colliding conversations are neatly synchronised but the main problem is that each part needs to convey a sense of tough experience with some firm characterisation which the self-conscious and rather tense cast could n't find in this patchy production . |
| 30 | To most people the term Gatt means very little but the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade which 108 countries have been wrestling over for the past six years is vital to fair trading throughout the world . |