Example sentences of "as [art] [adj] but [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joely Richardson seems perfect as the loyal but frustrated lady of the manor , while archetypal ‘ bit of rough ’ Sean Bean could out-squint a King Cobra . |
| 2 | It was said that Horsley treated Hayling as the brilliant but wayward son he always wanted , but never had . |
| 3 | In the late Forties , just as her career was sinking to its lowest ebb , and an English critic commented of her notorious egomania that ‘ only bad films are good enough for her ’ , she returned in triumph with one of her most brilliant performances , as the ageing but feisty actress Margo Channing who , to her emotional and professional cost , learns All About Eve ( directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz , 1950 ) . |
| 4 | Many of Voight 's films have cast him as a none-too-bright but likeable hunk . |
| 5 | Stern 's ironic and humane gaze can stand as a tiny but glowing symbol of everything that Britain gained from his generation of migrants . |
| 6 | Mr Prichard remembers his grandmother as a warm but private person who liked nothing more than to sit beside the Thames at her home in Cholsey and to tend her beloved roses . |
| 7 | IT HAS always been regarded as a guilty but harmless secret shared by thousands of women . |
| 8 | Try using any substantial cardboard box as a simple but effective filing cabinet . |
| 9 | But he will probably avoid restating Britain 's position that it is mainly China 's responsibility to restore Hong Kong 's confidence , and will instead urge locals to build the territory as a separate but valuable part of the ‘ one country , two systems ’ model under which it is to return to China . |
| 10 | He regards them as a necessary but tiresome ingredient in the successful running of the Empire . |
| 11 | It was built about one hundred and twenty years ago as a small but sturdy bungalow . |
| 12 | In so doing , it may also win new respect in other areas of physics , where many see it as a fascinating but over-costly irrelevance . |
| 13 | The SCC is particularly concerned with campaigning : we aim to promote cycling as a partial but significant solution to the problems of urban congestion and pollution , because cycling is not only pollution-free but also flexible , cheap and above all , healthy . |
| 14 | The SCC is particularly concerned with campaigning : we aim to promote cycling as a partial but significant solution to the problems of urban congestion and pollution , because cycling is not only pollution-free but also flexible , cheap and above all , healthy . |
| 15 | The SCC is particularly concerned with campaigning : we aim to promote cycling as a partial but significant solution to the problems of urban congestion and pollution , because cycling is not only pollution-free but also flexible , cheap and above all , healthy . |
| 16 | Also on Beinn Bhan , Der Riesenwand was climbed by Roger Webb by the original line , and Robin Clothier by an accidental direct finish ( sorry , partners unknown ) , and Gully of the Gods by Robin Beadle and Martin Moran , who described it as a superb but straightforward grade V. |
| 17 | Bacon 's fundamental concept was of ‘ age as a great but slow drier . ’ |
| 18 | The role has evolved as a basic but flexible care worker , with a minimum of three months skill-based training . |
| 19 | If a country enacted a bill of rights , then it was likely to be acknowledged as a written but inadequate consolation for the absence of that commitment to liberty which appeared to seep unconsciously and effortlessly through the British system of government . |
| 20 | It is important to note here that there is no single term which can accurately be used as a brief but comprehensive designation for all these heterogeneous groups . |
| 21 | And as a brief but final point on there , what language did we develop our product in ? |
| 22 | Having arrived in Britain as a raw but gifted teenager , Wattana has honed his game to match-play sharpness by three seasons on the professional circuit . |
| 23 | This rational presentation often follows a period of ingratiation through which the subordinate aims to get superiors to like him as a charming but intelligent expert . |
| 24 | Reparation can be seen either as a desirable aim in its own right , or as a valuable but secondary aim which may be pursued when imposing punishment which is justified on other grounds ( such as reductivism ) . |
| 25 | To regard them as a formal but irrelevant accoutrement of educational reform would be a severe managerial mistake . |
| 26 | Leeds MP Tim Kirkhope is building up a reputation as a quiet but skilful Enforcer but the other junior Whips are relatively inexperienced . |
| 27 | Looking back at that period , the crucial difference in Conservative politicians was between those who thought that the last twenty or thirty years had not been too bad , and who were sceptical that anything better could be achieved , and those who hoped that something better could be won and saw the last quarter of a century as a slow but steady decline . |
| 28 | He said it was for him the perfect realization of Sibelius as a passionate but anti-sensual composer . |
| 29 | Deism frees this bound-in monadic god by releasing him as an immanent but impersonal spirit . |
| 30 | Theophrastus von Hohenheim , otherwise known as Paracelsus , is vaguely remembered as an innovative but controversial figure , deserving a place in medical history , but distinctly on the alternative fringe . |