Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] [adj] but [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it 's a bit like that but instead of making it go round all the church it goes on to the tape . |
| 2 | Most of the canvas is blown by the wind n the fore and middle grounds , while a strip of distant but finely detailed farmhouses , trees and human paraphenalia grips the top of the canvas . |
| 3 | The emphasis on athleticism , power play , sustained long-ball assaults , blitzkrieg , has bred a proliferation of muscular but blunderingly naive defenders who appear to be alarmingly , untidily vulnerable when required to cope with more subtle forms of attack ; show them dribblers , runners with the ball or an incisive exchange of sharp passes , and panic sets in . |
| 4 | Gardeners from the National Trust at Petworth Park , Sussex , have used Capability Brown 's original designs to plant a four-acre plot for which Brown had sketched out a plan in 1750 but never carried out . |
| 5 | Further north , between the Cannington thrust and the Variscan Front , is a zone of folded but apparently quite unmetamorphosed ranks represented prominently at outcrop by the Carboniferous Limestone . |
| 6 | The young fry form into a shoal at first but later become behaviourally similar to other damsel , non-clownfish , species . |
| 7 | You can make a move in 1993 but even if it is to bigger and better things , there may be some apprehension , possibly even sadness , attached to it . |
| 8 | The member for Worcester City was on this occasion one of the dozen or so gentlemen who , after most late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century general elections , as a sort of ritual but somewhat haphazard sacrifice to virtue made by an easy-going society , were unseated on petition for allegedly corrupt electoral practices . |
| 9 | Clara and Rebecca had worked as a team before this but today they were on different jobs . |
| 10 | Some people prefer to think of blue or golden light ; others may not think of a colour at all but just feel they are centred within a sphere . |
| 11 | I looked out of the wind-shaken carriage , where people were moaning and cursing and making vows to start going by bus , or take the car next time , or buy a car , or learn to drive … looked out through the rain-spattered sheets of glass , watching the cold January day leach out of the grey skies above the drenched city , and witnessed the rain fall upon the tramped-on , pissed-on , shat-on grass of the narrow path in the scrubby field with a feeling of wry but nevertheless wretched empathy . |
| 12 | They are quite certain I do n't know a word of Greek but even so they 're still very cautious . |
| 13 | He was a freelance commercial artist , and a painter of potential but too little application . |
| 14 | Moral pluralism asserts the existence of a multitude of incompatible but morally valuable forms of life . |
| 15 | Primary process thinking is driven by what he called the pleasure principle , whereby the instant gratification of infantile desires is achieved by making use of a number of irrational but personally satisfying mental tricks ( mechanisms he called condensation , displacement , substitution and symbolization ) . |
| 16 | The distortions which occur under a system of all but exclusively local authority house-building — the tendency to conform to the past rather than the future location of population ( with consequent immobilisation of labour ) , the wrong proportion of houses of different sizes , and the provision of more amenities than those for which tenants are prepared to pay the economic price — these will naturally correct themselves when private building is restored . |
| 17 | IN a sea of Cleveland red , Stockton South is a pinprick of blue but only just . |
| 18 | Where water accumulates , mosses become dominant ; the wettest patches have mats , even hummocks , of Bryum , Grimmia , Ceratodon and other species , growing from a substrate of dead but barely decomposed organic material and often partly overgrown with lichens . |
| 19 | This awareness was a growing one , not a sudden flash of illumination , not a conversion at all but rather a slow , painful , at times embarrassing progress towards competence in communicating with deaf people . |
| 20 | They also tend to ‘ use up ’ remedies quickly which may need repeating several times an hour at first but always according to the changes in the symptom picture . |
| 21 | An instrument of smaller but yet great importance was the " talkie cinema " acquired by the School at about the same time . |
| 22 | In an act of admirable but ultimately misguided loyalty , the national coach Andy Roxburgh stood by his dispirited keeper . |
| 23 | Maastricht is an irrelevancy in that but tonight 's vote is not . |
| 24 | Thus , the good manager needs the energy as well as the interest to transmit to others an understanding of obscure but still important requirements and regulations . |
| 25 | I soloed back up it in the last light , an orgy of vertical but easy bridging on huge holds . |