Example sentences of "more [adj] but [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a more complete but still simple introduction , see Introducing Groundwater , by Michael Price ( George Allen and Unwin , 1985 , £13.95 ) . |
| 2 | Mogridge prefers a more light-hearted but chronologically inaccurate version of events . |
| 3 | Eventually , as the night air became too icy , the last of them filed inside , leaving Mark and me to our more frugal but more spacious bivouac on the terrace . |
| 4 | It had left at any rate a forcible temporary effect upon his own more cautious but equally human complacency . |
| 5 | Whilst some of the more conspicuous signs of domination have diminished over the years , a more indirect but equally pervasive web of relationships has grown up . |
| 6 | Giddens again , therefore , approaches the question of locale in a more indirect but more convincing way than those who have attempted to apply psychology directly to ‘ urban ’ or ‘ spatial ’ processes . |
| 7 | The whole philosophy in emergency medicine is think of the ABCs — not to overlook a potentially life-threatening injury and get distracted by a more dramatic but less serious injury . |
| 8 | For larger tables — up to about 1000 keys — a more approximate but less time-consuming method due to Sprugnoli can be used . |
| 9 | So obsessed was he with Mary 's charm and the Casket Letters , that it did not occur to him to ask the much more prosaic but crucially important question : what effect did it have on her kingdom , in this age of religious and political upheaval and trauma , to be saddled with a ruler who shut herself off from reality whenever reality became difficult ? |