Example sentences of "[adj] but a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The metal may be somewhat brittle after this but a final tempering process ( heating to a moderate temperature , followed by slow cooling ) relieves the internal stresses , leaving a hard and durable finished product which is mechanically stronger than bronze . |
| 2 | Tonight winds will be calm inland but a light southerly breeze over the Clyde estuary and the Argyll coast will keep temperatures there around five celsius , that 's forty one fahrenheit . |
| 3 | Baths were mandatory and not just a lazy soaking but a good scrubbing with carbolic soap . |
| 4 | Erm it 's a difficult balance , change is very rarely popular and quite often it 's only ever talked about but sometimes it happens and even then it 's not popular but a balanced and open mind is required to approach change but perhaps more important , and this is n't always mentioned , suggestions about change tend to come from rather specific areas and there are rather specific interest groups which may start the process of change |
| 5 | The Chief Met Officer , Wing Commander Thomas , or ‘ Tommy ’ as he was always called by us behind his back , was immensely popular but a strict disciplinarian . |
| 6 | Amanda Harris 's Virgilia is no simpering wet but a loyal wife who vehemently thumps the tribunes for their banishment of her husband . |
| 7 | The meeting agreed to set up a working group on whale-watching but a British proposal to give the IWC a role in monitoring whale-watching and preparing guidelines to minimise disturbance to the animals was opposed by Japan and Norway and their supporters . |
| 8 | Some such as financial resources are easily specifiable , others such as not contravening the mores of the organisation are more elusive but a key aspect of these skills is sensitivity to limitations and obstacles as well as positive assets ( Singleton , 1981 ) . |
| 9 | The van was old but a good and reliable runner . |
| 10 | There was as well , similar but a whole step in advance , the why-dun-it , the book which depends for its interest on showing that someone who could easily enough have committed a certain murder but who on the face of it was incapable of that particular crime ( i.e. one who had J. C. Masterman 's aces of spades , hearts and diamonds but apparently not clubs ) is nevertheless seen eventually to be psychologically capable of that crime after all , once probed deeply enough . |
| 11 | His regular visits to the hospital for treatment finally ended in 1991 but a psychiatric nurse still visits him every fortnight to help him with the bouts of depression he suffers . |
| 12 | Gothin et al , studying six adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease and growth failure ( three with Crohn 's disease and three with ulcerative colitis ) , showed a normal sleep related serum growth hormone response in all six but a blunted response to arginine in one patient and to insulin in three patients . |
| 13 | Sustaining not just a home-owning but a capital-owning democracy is crucial to our vision for the 1990s . |
| 14 | Luke was born on June 22 1990 , three weeks early but a healthy seven pounds and one ounce . |
| 15 | He was n't a composer as such but a great translator , not just a violin but also a violinist , an Itzhak Perlman of actors . ’ |
| 16 | To summarise therefore , the teaching of Jesus on this subject is intimately bound up with his establishment of the Kingdom : it is not a condemnation of wealth as such but a much-needed perspective on the material world in an age of materialism . |
| 17 | She is not an incompetent but a degenerate . |
| 18 | To ‘ put myself in your place ’ , to ‘ see your point of view ’ and ‘ understand how you feel ’ , is not a moral but a cognitive act , but of what sort ? |
| 19 | On the present analysis , moving to the viewpoints of other persons is not in itself a moral act , any more than is temporal viewpoint-shifting , so that a reduced capacity for either is not a moral but a cognitive defect . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , the Kanda method is destructive and many of the mitotic cells become unscorable but a sufficient number are conserved to give a clear indication of X-chromosome activity . |
| 21 | So international agreement and co-operation is in this field not merely an ideal but a practical necessity for effective justice . |
| 22 | It does express some of the deeper discontents and anxieties of the contemporary working class , particularly a real sense of loss , which is not nostalgic but a genuine understanding of the cost of ‘ progress ’ in terms of any sense of community or collective responsibility . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , if we say not ‘ dog ’ but ‘ My — dog-Rover-with — the — white — spots- and — the-stumpy-tail ’ , there can be no doubt that we intend not only a specific but a unique reference . |
| 24 | Many of the concepts explained might have appeared self-evident but a thorough grasp of these basic points is essential for understanding later sections of the book which deal with international banking and finance . |
| 25 | The summer timetable saw very little change at the Western end of the Cambrian but a notable addition was an 07:00 Newtown to Birmingham service each weekday using stock and crews brought out a a passenger service from Salop . |
| 26 | He became stuporous but a full neurological exam . |
| 27 | Dun Telve is now in Government care : much remains intact but a large part of its stone was robbed by local farmers in centuries past . |
| 28 | Not only that but a collective bargain is a method of suppressing individual differences between workers . |
| 29 | Yes but a similar to that but a little bit darker . |
| 30 | So what I 'm saying to you is , do n't go in over the top , you know , five , just a normal but a firm handshake because a man would expect it because a weak ha ha handshake can be irritating and the same thing if she is a woman |