Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] but [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opposite side of the coin is that group personnel directors or chief executives are moving from the corporate world to join executive search firms which can offer a wholly different but very satisfying way of earning a living . |
| 2 | ‘ These countries are going to go through a period of not only political but also economic instability for some time to come , ’ he says . |
| 3 | The 1970s and 1980s have seen a series of fundamental economic problems beset not only British but also international capitalism . |
| 4 | But the glamour of track events must n't overshadow the historic achievement of Steve Redgrave in the less popular but equally tough sport of rowing . |
| 5 | A less exciting but equally innovative characteristic of princely officials was that they now existed in sufficient numbers to be used to check up on one another . |
| 6 | They prefer ‘ junk food ’ laden with additives , cholesterol and calories , but with very low nutrition value , to the less exciting but more nutritious food offered by the institution . |
| 7 | If the mood contrasts with Exekias 's hieratic death of Penthesilea ( fig. 55 ) , the handling sets it off as sharply from the no less charming but more rustic picture in fig. 57 . |
| 8 | More usually , however , each wave shows an elliptical strip of the sky , light , from the horizon , with a dark reflection in its middle ; the whole surrounded by the less dark but increasingly rich colour made up from the sky above added to the colour of the water itself . |
| 9 | The American embassy in London reported on 23 November 1956 that " anti-American feeling is at a very high pitch and yet is accompanied by the somewhat contradictory but nevertheless complacent assumption that the U.S. is bound to come to its senses and pick up the check " . |
| 10 | A less obvious but equally successful choice was Arrigo Sacchi , an unknown second-division manager from Parma who brought to Milan an attractive , attacking ( and so rather un-Italian ) type of football . |
| 11 | In a less obvious but equally influential manner , if a credit squeeze is applied as a macroeconomic policy , the resulting high interest rates will reduce the number of people able to take out mortgages . |
| 12 | A less obvious but equally debilitating problem is the propensity of farm workers not to join a trade union even when availed of the opportunity to do so . |
| 13 | The industrialized and urbanized mode of life involved the replacement of magic and mystery by precisely calculable and strictly functional procedures , a less obvious but equally pervasive fact of modern life . |
| 14 | The plan centres on the so-called insulae ( the natural islands of which the whole of Venice is made up ) and involves raising the ground level in certain places to a height that will prevent the less severe but more frequent flooding . |
| 15 | Sometimes , however , an alternative , less heroic but equally anti-correctionalist picture was painted : working-class crime was in reality mostly petty , irrelevant and not a problem , but had been made to appear so by the mass media blowing it up , misrepresenting it and creating crime-scares . |
| 16 | We can , if we want to , move into the somewhat esoteric but extremely interesting area of micro-analysis of teaching . |
| 17 | Fear of the risks of contraception may turn women towards apparently safer but less reliable barrier methods , This may increase unwanted fertility . |
| 18 | In the double blind component of the study by the European working party on high blood pressure in the elderly there was an apparently impressive but barely significant reduction in cardiac deaths ( -47% , p=0.048 ) . |
| 19 | On a less tragic but equally terrifying note , a family fled from their Worcester home in February 1986 to stay with relatives until the council could find them another house . |
| 20 | Medical literature quotes instances of penises that have barely reached half-an-inch when fully erect — organs that have been labelled with the somewhat insensitive but nevertheless appropriate term ‘ micro-penis ’ . |
| 21 | Profiled recently in this magazine , Madame Yevonde was a highly influential but sadly unsung pioneer of colour photography who began experimenting with the new Vivex colour print process in the early thirties and was soon producing work of startling and refreshing originality . |
| 22 | Vlaminck always insisted that he was the first to have ‘ discovered ’ African or Negro sculpture ( and he and his contemporaries used the term ‘ art negre ’ generically to cover not only African but also Polynesian art and indeed any tribal art at all that came their way ) and his claim was to pass into legend , although Gauguin himself possibly owned examples of African as well as Polynesian sculpture . |
| 23 | As a result , they have been forced into less desirable but more lucrative employment elsewhere in order to support an ‘ acceptable ’ standard of living . |
| 24 | One way to reduce unemployment would be to attack the problems of a less glamorous but equally important technology . |
| 25 | It takes little thought to see that someone who is physically crippled and confined to a wheelchair may still lead a very full life if his mental and higher faculties are in good order whereas a physically fit but totally demented person has little left to give and little capacity to receive except for physical care and a little love . |
| 26 | At the other end are those with a remote myocardial infarction in whom an arrhythmogenic substrate is provided by an anatomically constant but electrically unstable border zone between scar tissue and viable myocardium . |
| 27 | The tagsets produced ( i.e. the groups of words ) thereby contain not just syntactic but also semantic information . |
| 28 | The provisional premier and future President of the Republic , Alcalá Zamora , and the Interior minister , Maura , were wealthy , Catholic ex-monarchists anxious to assuage conservative fears with a mildly reformist but politically moderate Republic . |
| 29 | There then followed a winter of rather confused but relatively quiet negotiation manoeuvre , and attempt at compromise on the tariff issue . |
| 30 | The school has no uniform , and members of staff are addressed by pupils with their forenames , giving the school a remarkably relaxed but purposefully informal atmosphere . |