Example sentences of "but [adv] [adj] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Full of character the bridge may have been but woefully inadequate for the increasing traffic of the busy port and in 1856 the new bridge was opened . |
| 2 | The pony/horse could have a stable and rugs , these items are a necessity for the highly bred horse but not essential for the hardy ponies . |
| 3 | RIVER CROSSENS : Good fishery but often slow for the first week or so until fish located . |
| 4 | Prospects : Possible as a short-term measure , but increasingly implausible for the longer term as the cracks become wider and resources for papering them over become more scarce . |
| 5 | This was bad news for writers of space westerns , but very hopeful for the small number of us who believed in black holes at that time : it was the first positive evidence that neutron stars existed . |