Example sentences of "be [art] [adj] but [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then , having thrown away the chance of greater equality , women gradually proceeded to win it back by devious ways until by 1960 there had been a stealthy but profound erosion of male dominance with hardly a male being yet aware of it . |
| 2 | And a mess of twisted brass bonded with what had once been a small but efficient pulse-receiver . |
| 3 | Also , after the Jacobite Wars there had been a gradual but continuing improvement of the main roads in Britain . |
| 4 | The real achievement of headhunting in Britain , which indicates the new maturity of the industry , has been a gradual but discernible change in the attitude of the majority of users of search . |
| 5 | Indeed , according to Louis Lomax , there had occurred ‘ The Negro Revolt ’ , meaning that there had been a gradual but discernible rejection of the notion of blacks as inferior and a series of social movements orchestrated to sound this ( 1963 ) . |
| 6 | All the reports agreed that there had been a gradual but marked increase in the intensity of activity on Krakatoa during the three days preceding the twenty-sixth . |
| 7 | His thick-set holler lifts what might otherwise have been a cool but minor diversion into a work of real significance . |
| 8 | This tendency has steadily increased , and alongside it there has been a different but related tendency , as combine and corporate ownership have become much more common in book publishing . |
| 9 | This has been a brief but interesting debate . |
| 10 | In Britain , there has been a steady but unpublicised increase in its use in police investigation over the past 15 years . |
| 11 | Perhaps one of the most important developments of the last few years has been a steady but widespread trend towards protectionism . |
| 12 | All in all it had been a busy but constructive evening 's work . |
| 13 | Nevertheless there has been a slow but perceptible change in the basis of such control , which is no longer in the hands of particular landowning families and individuals as such , but part of the duties of the office to which they have been elected . |
| 14 | In certain areas of the country industrialization had been a slow but continuous process since the seventeenth century or even earlier ; and it is a process which has not finished yet . |
| 15 | Those who chronically seek help from subspecialists are a small but costly subgroup in whom psychosocial factors may be more disabling than the gut symptoms themselves . |
| 16 | In a society where lesbians and gay men are a small but significant minority , and where individuals experience various forms of oppression and discrimination because of their sexuality , fair representation is only likely to take place within some form of public service broadcasting . |
| 17 | CUTLERY sales are an unlikely but accurate indicator of the trading state of the catering industry . |
| 18 | IBM 's internal networks have thus been an unwritten but real part of its winning culture . |
| 19 | For Mr Wolski it had been an exciting but strange time . |
| 20 | But a key part in the telling should be the small but significant number of actual past tempo measurements which have come down to us . |
| 21 | Good financial management routines should be the well-established but unobtrusive skeleton of a practice . |
| 22 | Let's be honest with ourselves ; I 'm a small but vital link in the business of producing one of the most important daily newspapers in the world . |
| 23 | It rather appeared to be a slight but inconsistent preference for mucosal IgG1 production also in Crohn 's disease . |
| 24 | This contrasts with other regions in the province where there appears to be a small but consistent occurrence of figured mosaics between the middle and late second century . |
| 25 | The University is budgeting for a deficit in 1992–3 leading to an accumulated deficit at the end of the year of £3.7m , having decided that the general financial outlook was sufficiently encouraging for it not to delay allocating funds towards the backlog of long-term maintenance ( see para. 3.8 above ) ; it believes that there will be a small but steady growth in student numbers , and that changes in the HEFCE 's method of distributing funds for research will benefit it . |
| 26 | They recorded one album , and bootlegs reveal it to be a rough but fascinating affair , veering wildly between respectful renditions of traditional classics and slightly embarrassing Beatles pastiches . |
| 27 | His will be a limited but constant talent , valuable not so much in itself as in its resuscitative power . |
| 28 | There would be a brief but spectacular meteor shower in Lucifer 's upper atmosphere tonight , he thought , wondering if those on Belial would watch and think of them , as he had thought of Paula Engado when she 'd become a shooting star . |
| 29 | The funeral itself will be a painful but important occasion for her , as this , and all the ritual connected with it , will be her first big step forward into the grieving process which is to lead on to final recovery . |
| 30 | The goal of a quiet residential street would not be reached ; the result would be a quiet but unsafe street dominated by traffic , even if there were no cars there most of the time . |