Example sentences of "[noun] but [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this was perhaps an inevitable reaction by a new generation to the old creed of individualism and laissez faire which G. W. E. Russell , a Liberal MP and High Churchman , denounced in a Manchester Guardian article at the turn of the century as ‘ this intellectual but unmoral theory ’ . |
| 2 | Note the more overt reference to religion but careful avoidance of Jesus Christ which is rather too religious a term . |
| 3 | Even small numbers of Salmonella cells can cause food poisoning but other types of bacteria have to be present in large numbers before they make food dangerous . |
| 4 | However , it is also possible that these domains might not be directly involved in the association but that deletions of these regions might induce a conformational change of each protein , affecting the interaction . |
| 5 | Robinson and Solomon ( 1974 ) , Natale ( 1977 ) and Gates and Bradshaw ( 1977a ) also obtained a right ear advantage in recognition of rhythm but dichotic pitch perception has yielded contradictory results ( for review see Craig , 1979a ) . |
| 6 | If we want to indicate that the man is not going to ride a specific horse but any horse or horses in general , then we can move yarraman into the dative case which is marked by the suffix ku . |
| 7 | Gary 's neat and composed approach was enjoyed by the discerning fans but some Palace supporters found it difficult to accept this refined talent in the hustle and bustle of the Second Division of the mid-1980s . |
| 8 | He tried shutting his eyes but sickly feelings ran through his body and made his fingers tingle . |
| 9 | Boro took the lead three times through Alan Kernaghan , Tommy Wright and Willie Falconer but each time were hauled back through Les Ferdinand , Gary Penrice and Sinton 's first-ever penalty for Rangers . |
| 10 | Lawrence was also disappointed by Scotland 's decision to overlook midfielder Willie Falconer but new signing Derek Whyte is in the party to face Switzerland . |
| 11 | Plus Ravel ( Tombeau de Couperin ) , Bizet ( Symphony in C ) 7.30pm St Andrew 's Hall £3-£12 but half-price to Independent readers on presentation of this page at the Box Office ( 0603-618499 ) SATURDAY BBC Philharmonic Brahms ( Symphony No3 ) and Wagner ( Prelude and Liebstod ) frame Schoenberg 's Violin Concerto 7.30pm RFH £3.50-£15 but Independent readers can get 2 tickets for the price of 1 on presentation of this page at the Box Office Echoes of Venice 17th-century cantatas and motets by Rossi , Legrenzi , Stradella and Carisio sung by the Baroque Consort of Singers 8pm St Mary 's , Putney Bridge SW15 £4/concs £2 RPO Nicholas Cleobury conducts Mendelssohn ( Fingal 's Cave ) , Handel ( Water Music ) , Rachmaninov ( Piano Concerto No2 , soloist Piers Lane ) , Beethoven ( Pastoral ) 8pm Barbican £7-£15 Emma Kirkby with Anthony Rooley . |
| 12 | Machine dish etc. washing : Methods require minimal activity on the part of the operator compared with manual methods but certain preliminaries are essential for correct functioning of the machine together with routine checks and maintenance . |
| 13 | The Templars first built it as a fortified manor but later generations had embellished it to make it more comfortable . |
| 14 | It 's ne not this Tuesday but next Tuesday . |
| 15 | The backs of old envelopes may be good enough for shopping lists but scrappy notes are worse than none . |
| 16 | When he found a small flat in London , he invited her to stay with him ; it had only one bedroom but two beds . |
| 17 | At £164.99 , it 's still a sizeable investment but French Connection have a good reputation for making clothes that last — and any of these items could , of course , be teamed with other items . |
| 18 | I suppose they would not deny that they represent not Utopia but Original Sin , and the imperfect state of man . |
| 19 | If the material was supplied almost entirely by longshore drift , the profile outside the bar should be continuous with that inside the bar ( Fig. 8.19A ) : if the bar was formed by erosion of the sea floor , the profile outside the bar , if projected back towards the land , should not reach seal level at the coast but some way inland ( Fig. 8.19B ) . |
| 20 | Taking the first fortnight as a whole , four-fifths of voters had heard nothing about their local Conservative , Labour , and Alliance candidates but that figure dropped to little more than half in the second fortnight . |
| 21 | The Italian insurrection was a dismal failure , one which caused the young man not only political disappointment but personal tragedy , for his elder brother died as a result of illness contracted during the rising . |
| 22 | This emphasises the point that hunting has adverse effects on the welfare of animals but beneficial effects on conservation , and here there is a conflict of interest . |
| 23 | Not just because of Joachim 's kindness but that chance encounter put me on the road to solving Selkirk 's riddles and the horrible murders they caused . ) |
| 24 | The serum angiotensin converting enzyme activity was not raised in our patient , and several groups have reported high values in sarcoidosis but low values in Crohn 's disease . |
| 25 | Some ( e.g. pupil 3 ) attempted to obtain the answer to the question from the pattern of numbers relating to unshaded squares but most pupils saw the relationship between shaded and unshaded in each diagram which enabled them to calculate the required number directly . |
| 26 | Position one is the Strat-style neck pickup wired straight through the volume control and out to the jack , while position two gives you the same pickup but this time through the tone circuit . |
| 27 | These are often small firms , with brief track-records but big ambitions — bio-tech stocks , which boomed last year , are an example . |
| 28 | The police welcomed the new secure units but expressed concern that they would not be ready until 1995 . |
| 29 | Only a day after reporting the second year of falling personal computer sales ( CI No 2,157 ) , the Japan Electronic Industry Development Association says that Japanese manufacturers ' shipments of personal computers jumped 6.2% in unit terms during the January to March quarter from a year earlier , and the rise in combined exports and domestic sales to 688,000 units from 648,000 units in the year-earlier quarter marked the first quarterly rise in two years ; exports rocketed 31% to 144,000 units but domestic shipments only inched up 1.1% to 544,000 units , but was still the first quarterly increase in two-and-a-half years ; because of the price wars , combined export and domestic shipments of made-in-Japan micros — when measured in currency terms , fell 8.3% — exports and home sales each off 8% . |
| 30 | Mono-unsaturated fatty acids were , until recently , considered ‘ neutral ’ in their effect on the concentration of cholesterol in the blood but new evidence suggests that they are at least as beneficial as polyunsaturated fatty acids . |