Example sentences of "[adj] but [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usually these breaks are not perpendicular but at an angle , and so long as the end is carefully flame-polished , minor irregularities in the line of the break do not matter . |
| 2 | This material will be attractive , serious but with an air of fun and festivity as well . |
| 3 | The rehearsals continued , subdued but in an orderly way . |
| 4 | I mean I used to , I can chart the American way you see cos but the American way is different to the British way cos we just count number one to eight but with an American they go one one , one two , one three , one four , one five , one six and then they come this way . |
| 5 | The first step is to start talking about stress , not as something shameful but as an interesting , understandable and , up to a point , an inevitable accompaniment to high levels of demand and uncertainty . |
| 6 | By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles . |
| 7 | If there is a particular liability that is causing concern which has been identified prior to contract but is not precisely quantifiable , it may be appropriate that it should not be covered by a warranty at all but by an indemnity or other specific provision . |
| 8 | This was mainly at Level II but with an increasing achievement at Level III and above . |
| 9 | The Club atmosphere is casual but with an exciting dash of cosmopolitan sophistication . |
| 10 | Or a straight down blind but at an angle but er but on runners to hold , yeah . |
| 11 | But resemblance can not explain how a thinker could experience one object as standing for another ; for how could the fact that a particular datum is similar to other things mean anything to a thinker unless he experienced it as being like many others — that is , unless he grasped it , not just as a particular but as an instance of a kind ? |
| 12 | Afterwards she was forced to walk back to her own barracks on a freezing winter night , naked but for an anorak round her shoulders . |
| 13 | The mechanics had basically the same but with an extra hundred-square-foot room at the back . |
| 14 | if the return to Conservatism is to be something more than the transient apparition of a spectre from the past , and its voice in national affairs not merely to be a sepulchral warning against the dangers of rash courses , the Conservative leaders must bestir themselves to some purpose … [ the Conservative Party ] must be ready to meet the programme of the Labour Party not simply with a non-possumus but with an alternative which will in some measure satisfy certain of the needs which Labour is concerned to satisfy , and at the same time avoid the perils with which it insists Labour policy is beset . |
| 15 | To overcome this , some employers operate a policy a common retirement age of 65 but with an option to retire up to five years earlier if the employee wishes . |
| 16 | For those keen on flying but with an aquatic interest it would help make the perfect corporate day out . |