Example sentences of "[adj] but [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wonder whether , if Labour Members present were Members not of this but of a similar Parliament in an eastern European country or in Russia , they would be taking this attitude . |
| 2 | Now I 'm sure that screaming along with fifteen knot in a force six is really exciting but for a landlubber like myself it 's certainly not on . |
| 3 | ‘ It was really good and really exciting but in a way it was also like a flashback to 1983 or something , because I still wanted to do completely different songs to everyone else ! |
| 4 | It is beautifully detailed but in a musical rather than analytical sense , offering a degree of presence which communicates real emotion where the programme offers it . |
| 5 | The stress σ is applied to spring E 1 and dashpot η 3 ; it is also shared by E 2 and η 2 but in a manner which varies with time . |
| 6 | Governors were kept informed but as a decision of the headteachers rather than as a matter of right . |
| 7 | A word spelt like another but with a different meaning , eg bow in a bow and arrow and tie one 's hair with a bow . |
| 8 | The Harlequin man pursed his lips and sucked in his cheeks not in a cadaverous but in a speculative , mischievous style which nevertheless bespoke some fatal intent . |
| 9 | Whatever your opinion of ABBA 's music , you must admit they had a hell of a knack for penning a commercial tune ; the chord sequence here is fairly standard but with a couple of nice twists , with the bass playing a central role in the arrangement . |
| 10 | The internal classification of the genus is founded on the arrangements of the nowers : heads of only fertile flowers for one entomophilous section ; similar but with a distal zone of nectariferous ones in another ; the distal ones are fertile and separated from the proximal staminodal ones by a zone of nectariferous ones in a third . |
| 11 | It was getting dark but in a beautiful silvery still way . |
| 12 | When the Newcastle goalkeeper rose to his feet after treatment , Mr Jones chose to re-start play not with a free-kick but with a drop-ball inside the penalty area . |
| 13 | If it were not for the fact that he was one of the favourites you 'd have been delighted but as a Gold Cup winner I had to feel a bit disappointed . |
| 14 | The Convention is confined to international financial leasing , that is , to leasing which in economic terms is equivalent to a sale or purchase-money loan , the equipment being leased to a single lessee at whose request it was bought and the rentals being fixed not by reference to the use-value of the equipment as such but at a level which , taking into account cash-flows , tax-reliefs , and the like , will guarantee to the lessor the reim-bursement of his capital costs and desired return on capital . |
| 15 | If there is such a thing as a simulation in the same relation to suffering as imagination to perception , it is in response not to a real but to a fictitious situation ; it is the emotion of the actor revelling in the part of a tragic hero . |
| 16 | ( Oh , yes , I was a handsome rogue , tall with jet-black hair , olive-skinned but with a cast in one eye , I always thought it gave me a devil-may-care look . ) |
| 17 | First came the Class 56 , superficially similar to the Class 47 but with a maximum speed of 80mph and no facility for train heating . |
| 18 | From its harsh too-shiny texture there was no doubt it was synthetic but from a distance it looked like a black cat 's pelt . |
| 19 | He had dreamed about Mr Whistle , picturing him as a child-sized man in a Little Lord Fauntleroy outfit , with floppy velvet bows and knickerbockers , his head a white eggshape , featureless but for a shark 's gash of a mouth . |
| 20 | She may have to find her young not from a dozen but from a million . |
| 21 | Often the men marry girls not only younger but of a higher social class than their own in Sylhet . |
| 22 | The language of the Sonata No. 3 is Schoenbergian but on a larger scale than anything Schoenberg wrote for solo piano : Krenek has a more obvious strain of Viennese lyricism , which serves him through all his style changes . |
| 23 | According to Yves St Laurent , ‘ the face of winter 1990 is monochrome and soft but with a prominent mouth ’ . |
| 24 | His voice was soft but with a hard mechanical edge like a speak-your-weight machine , and he said ‘ men ’ like his friends said ‘ General ’ . |
| 25 | He came , looking as he always did , huge , a little untidy but with a smile of great sweetness on his lean face , from which the tan had almost completely faded . |
| 26 | The large figure of Athena is drawn in a modification of black-figure but in a style that could well be Euthymides 's . |
| 27 | Sepulveda justified the enslavement of the Indians on the grounds that they were the natural slaves mentioned in Book I of Aristotle 's Politics ; the Dominican Friar Las Casas admitted the frailty of the Indians but argued that they were all the more children of God owing to their very lack of capacity and skill , which still implies a sort of sub-humanity but of a different kind . |
| 28 | At Pasalar , the evidence is strongly in favour of subtropical forest , probably evergreen but with a pronounced dry season , and current work on the microwear of the Pasalar specimens , which are the oldest ones known to have thick enamel , indicates a diet of small hard objects , probably fruits . |
| 29 | While Arbuthnot was tactful and exceedingly good-natured , Harriett was equally discreet but with a sharper mind . |
| 30 | It left quite an impression , because it needed the brilliant virtuosity that Repin already had at that time , and it needed powerful playing from the orchestra , not just loud but with a lot of richness for the fast passages — you know how to judge a great orchestra when you hear let's say thousands of notes in a few seconds , and there 's still a special timbre . |