Example sentences of "very [adj] but [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Chokey ’ , Hortensia went on , ‘ is a very tall but very narrow cupboard . |
| 2 | Take a very simple but nonetheless instructive example . |
| 3 | The error lay in a very simple but quite reasonable assumption which everyone made . |
| 4 | Rows of simple smaller moon shapes in Fair Isle make a very basic but very charming border , or arrange them as an all-over pattern . |
| 5 | In the view of El-Sayed ( 1987 ) , one of Antarctica 's leading marine biologists , ‘ the picoplankton are a very important but highly variable component of the Antarctic marine ecosystem ’ . |
| 6 | TRACE II was primarily concerned with exploring a very slow but psychologically plausible simulation of speech processing . |
| 7 | Picasso 's Baigneuse , a work of early 1909 , shows the painter accomplishing the desired optical synthesis in a very thorough but slightly schematic way . |
| 8 | She was a very lovely but very unhappy woman . |