Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] but [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this storm of righteous indignation few commentators made the important but disheartening point that , except in moments of obvious crisis , the man in the street was as a rule little interested in foreign policy questions . |
| 2 | Alec led the strenuous but short-lived pitch and I continued up the long Needle Crack : sustained but never too difficult ; glorious bridging above the full height of the crag . |
| 3 | Last night , both sides promised a hard but fair battle . |
| 4 | Not all that long ago the term ‘ independent sector ’ described a broad but distinct territory of critical practice in film and video . |
| 5 | I found a small but perfectly-formed hailstone on my knee , which must have got in through the air vent . |
| 6 | Arriving on a hot afternoon in October this year I found a pleasant but unremarkable village spread along a bay . |
| 7 | For the rest of his life he bore a thin but livid scar on the right-hand side of his face . |
| 8 | As Sawyer and Darton wrote so tellingly in English Books : ‘ The Running Stationers , as they were at the last called , bore a light but precious fardel : just the Short History of the English People — no more . ‘ |
| 9 | Using Wella Optaform permanent wave lotion , and winding the hair on Molton Brown permers , she created a soft but strong style . |
| 10 | From the outer wall came the faint but definite sound of fighting . |
| 11 | ALEX FERGUSON saluted a blank but bold debut by his £1.2 million new boy Eric Cantona in Lisbon 's Stadium of Light last night . |
| 12 | MANCHESTER UNITED manager Alex Ferguson saluted a blank but bold debut from £1.2 million new boy Eric Cantona in Lisbon 's Stadium of Light last night . |
| 13 | The accountants ' cause received a small but unexpected boost last month when the California Supreme Court ruled that only clients could sue accounting firms for alleged professional negligence in the course of an audit . |
| 14 | Introduction of air , saline ( isotonic and hypertonic ) , glucose ( isotonic and hypertonic ) , oleic acid ( without bile salts ) , and casein hydrolysate all failed to release PYY but glucose caused a small but significant increase in enteroglycagon concentrations . |
| 15 | A seminar entitled ‘ Into Celluloid ’ : The potential for lesbian and gay film in Ireland ’ attracted a small but vocal audience whose overwhelming concerns addressed their needs for selfexpression in the Ireland of the '90s . |
| 16 | In the same area , a speculative trip to Beinn and Fhurain ( where ? ) was disappointing , but we salvaged a steep but scrappy line of icefalls ( IV ) . |
| 17 | In the 1960s came a frail-looking but gifted midfielder , Gianni Rivera , and a stocky manager , Nereo Rocco , inventor of il catenaccio ( ‘ the bolt ’ , an ultra-defensive game ) . |
| 18 | This was really no more than a collage of bits and pieces of archive film , intercut with brief interviews , for which I wrote and narrated a restrained but admiring commentary . |
| 19 | Overall , in the 20 trials which presented the standard deviation of the Hamilton score the tricyclic and related antidepressants showed a small but non-significant benefit in efficacy when compared with the serotonin reuptake inhibitors ( standardised difference 0.004 , 95% confidence interval -0.096 to 0.105 ) . |
| 20 | Contrary to expectations , fundholders ' NHS referral rates showed a small but significant increase from the first phase to the second phase of the study ( table III ) . |
| 21 | Next they met a small brook which Artemis and Buttons had also jumped previously , and which they flew again , and finally , before reaching the King 's Bushes , they met a low but wide hedge . |
| 22 | That afternoon we made a laborious but uneventful descent down the north east face and retrieved our skis . |
| 23 | Next , having reviewed , as well as he could , his work at the office , and made a courageous but unsuccessful attempt to remember whether there was any urgent correspondence he had n't dealt with , he let his thoughts return to Nenna . |
| 24 | The Doctor produced a small but powerful pocket torch and swung it around , briefly illuminating each exhibit in turn . |
| 25 | At a concentration of 5×10 - 5 M , N-monomethyl-L-arginine produced a partial but significant inhibition of the nerve mediated relaxations , reducing them to 72.4% ( 3.5% ) of their original size ( n=22 ) ( p<0.05 ) . |
| 26 | He devised a crude but effective way of exposing fossils from the rough rock . |
| 27 | He revealed a clumsy but passionate talent early on . |
| 28 | On then to Nottingham where , as an Assistant Solicitor , I worked with committees on huge programmes of slum clearances , undertook hundreds of prosecutions in consumer protection and began the fascinating but stressful business of presenting child care cases . |
| 29 | She spent time with remote island communities and observed the simple but effective way they lived their lives . |
| 30 | Similar results were reported by Bowers , Neilman , Satz and Altman ( 1978 ) who observed a bilateral but asymmetrical impairment on finger tapping when subjects merely had to listen to a story knowing that they would subsequently be asked to recall its contents . |