Example sentences of "this [adj] but [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She busied herself with retrieving the carrier of wet clothes from the seat behind , desperate to end this short-lived but uniquely humiliating experience and yet finding that to end it here , like this , would be the final humiliation of all . |
| 2 | In the individual 's mental life someone else is invariably involved , as a model , as an object , as a helper , as an opponent ; and so from the very first individual psychology , in this extended but entirely justifiable sense of the words , is at the same time social psychology as well . |
| 3 | FIRST Millwall won the war — then they got round to winning this brutal but utterly compelling match at The Den . |
| 4 | When this honest but somewhat unusual messiah delivers his message to a neurotic undersexed housewife ( Andie MacDowell ) whose husband is having an affair with her sister , fur flies . |
| 5 | Just about everything works well enough in this competent but hardly inspiring production . |
| 6 | This small but fairly distinctive constellation , adjoining the Southern Cross , is now known generally as Musca without the ‘ Australis ’ . |
| 7 | Siemens says that few major innovations have been brought out for this small but very steady market for the past 10 years , which should guarantee take-up . |
| 8 | To gain respect in this infuriating but somehow compelling man 's eyes ? |
| 9 | Feminists should be extremely wary of this well-intentioned but politically counterproductive move . |
| 10 | By proposing this ingenious but patently artificial contrivance , Friedman was able to account for the non-neutrality of money in the short run . |