Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] but [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In their infinite wisdom , the SFA had arranged for a Scotland Under 23 side to travel with the senior squad , in the admirable but ultimately naive belief that it would be a learning experience for the young stars of the future . |
| 2 | A classic example of this attitude can be found in the small but highly profitable Taylor Walker-run chain J & W Nicholson . |
| 3 | The audience knew it too — it showed in the polite but faintly puzzled round of applause , far less enthusiastic than she normally received . |
| 4 | Just around the corner from Sion House they found a narrow five-story terraced house built in the 1840s but impeccably Georgian in every other respect . |
| 5 | DIRECTOR Roman Polanski turns on the shock treatment in the passionate but quite perverse BITTER MOON ( Cert 18 ; West End ) . |
| 6 | President Collor 's plan combines free marketeering and authoritarian intervention in a bewildering but roughly equal mix . |
| 7 | In Halliday and Hasan 's model of cohesion , reference is used in a similar but more restricted way . |
| 8 | The design objective was to provide a knowledge based testing and diagnostic support facility that would present information and advice in a familiar but more efficient manner . |
| 9 | The effect of one 's own peers openly commenting on one 's performance in a critical but essentially constructive manner can be far greater than anything the individual manager can achieve . |
| 10 | And indeed when she reached the parish church she received a moment of instant gratification at the sight of her dear friend Lizzie Braithwaite looking far from her best in a regal but positively strident magenta . |
| 11 | Therefore we turn to you for help in ways to make lightweight canoes in a cheap but very safe manner . |
| 12 | The very opening theme [ 1 ] , in a matter-of-fact but distinctly pompous B flat major , is Swallow 's own motif , while Grimes is portrayed not by a theme but , as we shall see , by a texture . |
| 13 | It would hardly be surprising if so many organisations , each with a finger in a large but nonetheless limited pie , sometimes disagreed on how the money should be spent . |
| 14 | They seem to rise in a brief but sometimes piercing crescendo from the area of the stairwell at Cumnor Place . |
| 15 | A third small group is encountered near the beginning , in a Florida town ( along with the alligator ) , moving about in a desultory but slightly menacing way . |
| 16 | She turned and looked at me and said , in a quiet but fiercely precise voice , ‘ Mr Urfe . ’ |
| 17 | Certainly discretion is exercised by human beings , and those human beings are subject to all the , the frailties of humanity , and in many situations the policeman is in a tense but essentially human situation , where he has to make snap decisions on the spot . |
| 18 | Although the client suggested a Victorian-style treatment , similar to a recent conversion a few doors away , the architects were determined to convert the building in a sympathetic but thoroughly modern way , on the limited budget which was available . |
| 19 | While the Council for British Archaeology 's Philip Thatz stated in an honest but politically inept way what treasure hunters have been saying for years that … |
| 20 | The evident difficulty of writing about an artist who has transformed the traditional process of mapping a terrain of physiognomical likeness onto the production of a surface that suggests a process of physical disintegration rendered in assertively material terms is resolved by Packer in an oblique but entirely conventional manner . |
| 21 | Such a person manages the curriculum in an important but strictly limited way by affecting the conditions within which it is delivered . |
| 22 | Couples enter high-booted in an elaborate but genuinely traditional promenade . |
| 23 | Major growth , international development , innovations in many areas , a strong customer-driven marketing strategy , backed by precisely targeted , high-calibre research and technical services , plus a clear vision of the future in an expanding but highly competitive sector . |
| 24 | In an interesting but rather elusive study of Methodism , which sees it as " the English counterpart to the democratic revolution " , the critical dynamic in a " modernisation " of English society which bypassed the need for revolution , Professor Semmel writes that Wesley primarily addressed his message to " The poor of the nascent proletariat of England 's growing factory towns " . |