Example sentences of "[adj] but [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Underlining this was not only a sense of what was proper but also a sense of what was politically and socially wise . |
| 2 | Yet , at the same time , there has not , in most cases , been a sharp break between one way of life and another but rather a process involving subtle shifts in emphasis , whereby one set of relationships — kin , friends and neighbours — take on new significances in place of or in addition to older or earlier established relationships . |
| 3 | Denys Zacharopoulos , one of its three curators , says : ‘ The museum is like a voodoo fetish , the artist a sorcerer but also a prisoner ’ |
| 4 | Alright then , maybe not that much but quite a lot . |
| 5 | The following four German folktales relating to this theme , as collected by the Grimm brothers in the nineteenth century , are typical but only a fraction of the many variants known . |
| 6 | In no manner does the birth of this child put the other out of my mind nor can I accept he is a substitute but rather a reminder as if God wished to show me what I have lost and reprimand me for my carelessness . |
| 7 | The policy behind section 6 of the Sexual Offences Act is presumably that Parliament considered that a girl under 16 is generally unlikely to be sufficiently mature to realise the full implications of sexual intercourse ; so that her protection demands that a belief by a man under the age of 24 that she herself was over the age of 16 should not be only an honest but also a reasonable belief . ’ |
| 8 | And this is a novel which is I suppose an early but certainly a very embryonic attempt to write À la Recherche . |
| 9 | Alternatively there may be no marks as such but simply a set of grades to which the quality of pupils ' work may be assigned directly . |
| 10 | There 's been a more limited but still a fairly substantial amount of work done in this country , and there has been nothing at all , we 've had done locally . |
| 11 | Sometimes the plug is easily visible but normally a probe is used to detect its presence in the vagina . |
| 12 | The wheel , at Laxey , pumps water from the lead mines , now disused but once a major source of employment for Manxmen . |
| 13 | Formally , B is A 's subordinate but informally a good part of the organisation centres upon B with little reference to A. |
| 14 | Next time I saw Joe he looked maybe not 10 years younger but certainly a totally different man and ready to rock . |
| 15 | Wilson did put some flesh on the bones in a television interview with Norman Hunt , only to have it torn off in strips by the venerable Bridges , long since retired but still a determined advocate of a unitary Treasury dominating economic policy from the centre . |
| 16 | So it was ten amps with just the one , just the fifty ohm and now it , I mean this is n't right but just a , let's say that with both we 're going to get about eleven amps . |
| 17 | Successive reforms of local government administration , which have sought to make it more efficient , have produced a more rationalized but also a more centralized system , which has brought about a necessary decline in local autonomy . |
| 18 | The sergeant was buoyant and resilient but sometimes a dark mood ambushed him . |
| 19 | Kogan also points out that bureaus are rarely composite elements with a single set of preferences : ‘ educational bureaucracy in Britain is not only multi-level but also a strongly divided group at any one level . |
| 20 | This awareness was a growing one , not a sudden flash of illumination , not a conversion at all but rather a slow , painful , at times embarrassing progress towards competence in communicating with deaf people . |
| 21 | In some cases this may even mean not using a page makeup package at all but rather a high-powered word processor like Lotus Manuscript , Word or WordPerfect 5.0 . |
| 22 | All the other players you hear about from time to time , Charlton , Giles , Hunter et all but never a word about Harvey . |
| 23 | For the mayor of that city it is less terrible but still a serious problem . |
| 24 | To yank someone entirely out of their time and smack them around for not being of our time is perhaps a salutary but only a limited exercise . |
| 25 | He was not merely an employer , entrepreneur or capitalist but socially a ‘ master ’ , a ‘ lord ’ ( Fabrikherr ) , a ‘ patron ’ or ‘ chef ‘ . |
| 26 | He was a brilliant but also a tortured thinker , in many ways a solitary and tragic figure , his personality marked by a tendency to depression , and by the decision he made in 1843 to break off his engagement to Regine Olsen . |
| 27 | If you are going to take notes , let the candidate know at this stage , explain that you do it for all the candidates , and that they are nothing sinister but simply a memory aid . |
| 28 | The law relating to covenants is quite complex but basically a covenant is a legally-binding document by which you transfer some of your income to a charity for a stated period . |
| 29 | First-hand experience is invaluable but only a limited amount of it can be arranged and you certainly ca n't have large numbers of trainees sitting at the back of the same class . |
| 30 | Not only is this arrogant but also a sure way to lose power and to convince others that the meeting is not worthwhile . |