Example sentences of "[adj] but [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah mhm yeah I mean you may want to select some stuff that 's y'know that represents different kinds of things because as I remember our conversations earlier , you were interested in er y'know sort of ideological soundness , political correctness and y'know were some things funny but sort of off-colour for other reasons erm er I 'm paraphrasing it badly but er y'know I think that th s so you might want to get some stuff that 's sort of ideologically sound and humorous and er some stuff that 's a bit off-colour and humorous and some stuff that 's erm sort of I do n't know some stuff that 's main stream but has got a lot of y'know if you look at something like say The Two Ronnies or something , there 's a lot of there 's a lot of racism and sexism in there but it 's because it 's sort of main stream because it 's family viewing and stuff like that people tend not to think of it as problematic . |
| 2 | curly curly but sort of fuller and |
| 3 | Pushing forty but kind of athletic for his age , a worried grey face and hair going a little thin . |
| 4 | Artistic director Michael Dray said : ‘ This is not theatre for the deaf but theatre of the deaf . |
| 5 | He found little but evidence of a funeral pyre , and his impression was that a person of importance was cremated here and his ashes carried home to Rome . |
| 6 | Not only that but part of his very raison d'être , like that of his Creator , is to work . |
| 7 | His kidneys were diseased but cirrhosis of the liver had not yet set in . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , those of you yet to take out a home-loan but thinking of doing so might be better off going for the repayment version where you pay off a little bit of the loan and interest as you go along . |
| 9 | This sounds reasonable but application of the principle may contain inherent conflicts of interest and further guidance was provided in an advisory paper on confidentiality produced by the UKCC in 1987 . |
| 10 | Unemployment may mean that people have more leisure time available but lack of money restricts the kind of activities they are able to participate in during their spare time . |
| 11 | The cathedral was begun by Russian architects in 1471 but part of the building collapsed in the earthquake of 1472 so the work was handed over to an Italian architect and engineer , Aristotele Fioravanti from Bologna . |
| 12 | He was nicer when he was young but kind of now , he 's kind of old , do you know what I mean . |
| 13 | Not blonde , n not blonde blonde but sort of |
| 14 | There are three bells in the belfry dating from 1594 but ringing of the bells ceased in 1935 as the bell rollers became in need of extensive repairs . |
| 15 | All Motor Safari clients are briefed not only in safe driving but care of the countryside , too . |