Example sentences of "but [adv] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has come from people who are well informed about the governors ' aspect of management , who know how to take the influence and information of parents into account and who , because they have taken part in one specific but widely shared exercise in adult education , have had the chance to understand and contribute to a wide field of public and community affairs ( Sallis 1988 ) . |
| 2 | It also has a short but rather wonderful section on feminism and humour — an undeserved absence in feminist cultural studies — and a timely recognition of the strength of women 's ‘ comic subversions ’ . |
| 3 | 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 " . |
| 4 | Recent press reports disclose that Wall Street investment banker Dennis Levine , recently convicted and gaoled for insider trading , has written a book entitled Inside Out : An Insider 's Account of Wall Street for which he will receive an undisclosed , but presumably large amount of money . |
| 5 | Set against these developments , soccer hooliganism may be interpreted as ‘ attempts by certain sections of the class to assert some inarticulate , but keenly experienced sense of control over the game that was theirs ’ ( Taylor , 1971a:163 ) . |
| 6 | It had become quite acceptable for such a man , in his early sixties , to shift his money to safer investments , hand over the family home next to the workplace to his son , and move into a house in the suburbs from which he could maintain a benevolent but less taxing interest in family concerns . |
| 7 | Profitability , too , varies between the certain but perhaps unexciting rate of return paid by fixed interest government securities , to the more uncertain possibility of large gains to be made on equities . |
| 8 | We can , if we want to , move into the somewhat esoteric but extremely interesting area of micro-analysis of teaching . |
| 9 | If you want to go through the details of assignment and analysis , there are many excellent treatments that will help you , varying in depth from the brief but extremely clear account in Ref. [ 20 ] to long and complicated books on the subject , for example , Ref. [ 21 ] . |
| 10 | The Public Order Act was a necessary but highly controversial piece of legislation . |
| 11 | Try the Finale ( track 3 ) for a representative example of the dazzling but highly intelligent pianism on offer here , as well as the impressive orchestral contribution . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Until this happens people will always feel the threat of a ‘ 10/6 ’ dictator popping up somewhere and causing great global conflict damaging the fragile , but nevertheless improving balance of world power . |
| 14 | A vice is a useful but not essential piece of equipment . |
| 15 | The practical effects of this regulation were to cause many students to register for 12 modules but participate seriously in only 10 ; to cause them to stack their choices , so that modules which they needed or intended to pass were taken in terms 1 and 2 , and to bias apparent but not real demand towards term 3 . |
| 16 | There is an important but not complete relationship between class and partisan support . |
| 17 | Ablation of capsaicin sensitive afferent nerves impairs defence but not rapid rapair of rat gastric mucosa |
| 18 | At the same time , however , there must be evidence sufficient to make belief in God an act of commitment representing risk but not foolish defiance of reality . |
| 19 | Maybe I 've forgotten or maybe I never knew , but just plain walking in night streets with a pretty girl is the happiest thing you can do in this world . |
| 20 | I welcome NI tackling the difficult but vitally important issue of Debt ( Dicing with Debt NI 189 ) . |
| 21 | Welcome to the strange , exciting , occasionally hair-raising but always fascinating world of house-hunting . |
| 22 | Kimura also found that among normal right handed subjects there was a small but statistically significant advantage in recall of verbal material presented to the right ear . |
| 23 | This band sounds like an ulcer , a festering sore , a self-consuming but nonetheless exhilarating secretion of bile . |
| 24 | An instruction to clear a store location is occasionally provided , but more general manipulation of store locations ( such as " negate contents of store location " ) is rare . |
| 25 | A similar but more limited process of delegation ( centre de responsabilité ) started in 1991 at the Musée d'Orsay and will be introduced in a further five national museums . |
| 26 | If the mood contrasts with Exekias 's hieratic death of Penthesilea ( fig. 55 ) , the handling sets it off as sharply from the no less charming but more rustic picture in fig. 57 . |
| 27 | Another similar but more sophisticated device for use in record systems is a ‘ thesaurus ’ ( fig. 10.4 ) . |
| 28 | It is clear , I think , that this argument would , if successful , turn the argument against a global scepticism about understanding into an argument against a weaker but still global scepticism about knowledge . |
| 29 | Thus TDC was able to cope without overcrowding with the inexorable but still moderate increase in demand for capacity during the period 1955 to 1975 . |
| 30 | This is a primitive but thoroughly respectable bit of computing . |