Example sentences of "[art] [adj] but [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The audience knew it too — it showed in the polite but faintly puzzled round of applause , far less enthusiastic than she normally received . |
| 2 | He seldom thought of the half-dozen men who had been hanged during the twenty years of his forensic experience , primarily because of his evidence , and when he did , it was not the strained but oddly anonymous faces in the dock which he remembered , or their names ; but paper and ink , the thickened downward stroke , the peculiar formation of a letter . |
| 3 | The distinctiveness of the Swedish strategy will be seen to hinge on the central notions of citizenship and representation : on the one hand the deepening and extension of these on a universalistic basis in not only the political but also the economic sphere ; on the other hand their restriction within not only the economic but also the political sphere . |
| 4 | The associated but very different payment of the Census was made by monasteries that had the protection of St Peter 's vicar , the pope . |
| 5 | This particular parcel bore , on the third sheet , the one closest the body , the smudged but still discernible name and address of a woman in Reading ; a Mrs Dyer of Kensington Road . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , Jodhi May , in her first American celluloid outing , makes a good stab of portraying the frail but ultimately doomed Alice Munro , one of the daughters of Fort William Henry 's Scottish commander Colonel Munro who the mighty Magua , the wronged Huron war chief , has vowed to destroy . |
| 7 | In their infinite wisdom , the SFA had arranged for a Scotland Under 23 side to travel with the senior squad , in the admirable but ultimately naive belief that it would be a learning experience for the young stars of the future . |
| 8 | The distinctiveness of the Swedish strategy will be seen to hinge on the central notions of citizenship and representation : on the one hand the deepening and extension of these on a universalistic basis in not only the political but also the economic sphere ; on the other hand their restriction within not only the economic but also the political sphere . |
| 9 | He 'd had a new set made for him by the professional but somehow could not get used to them . |
| 10 | It was a human world , we learned , theoretically part of the SenFed but only just . |
| 11 | In addition , it is the young old — those in their sixties and seventies — who play a major part , disproportionate to their numbers , in the maintenance of voluntary organizations which contribute not only to the welfare of the disadvantaged but also to the cultural activities of the country at large . |
| 12 | It must be regarded as extremely probable that Oswiu was able to seek help in the confrontation with Penda not only from the Scots but also from the Picts , possibly even from the Irish ( see also below , p. 99 ) . |
| 13 | There are a variety of reasons for this , but one of them is that buying and selling shares is considered not only to be something for the rich but also to be very complex . |
| 14 | Urbanization and tyranny are connected , and both are consequences of trade ( which spreads ideas and causes dissatisfaction among the rich but politically excluded ) . |
| 15 | The Treasury 's task was made easier by the unrealistic but much heralded target of the National Plan , produced by the Department , to achieve an annual growth rate of 4 per cent . |
| 16 | He had the enviable but potentially inconvenient gift of making each visitor feel that he was the person Montini had been waiting all his life to talk to . |
| 17 | The de Warrenes had died out in the later middle ages , the priory was pulled down in 1538 , and with the disappearance of traditional authorities attention turned to the lesser but more numerous town houses of prosperous local merchants and the gentry who needed homes for the legal and social seasons . |
| 18 | Moreover , in decisively increasing the importance of the literate culture , it had the effect of a new kind of stratification , in which the cultural but also the social importance of the still oral majority culture declined . |
| 19 | High literary culture was the preserve , naturally , of the literate but also of those educated within a classical tradition , acquainted with previous literary models . |
| 20 | He had successfully led the School from the dark days of war , through a time of austerity thereafter , and on to the easier but still challenging years of the 1950s . |
| 21 | The results range from the almost predictable ( say the unsettled but distinctly South African ‘ township ’ feel of Lullaby ) to the totally unpredictable , ; the title track is indeed just that , ranging from a tight , boppy ensemble that would not be out of place as a riff in a Basie band arrangement and transforming ( metamorphosing — see ? ) into a complex interweaving of improvised joint soloing against rhythmic drumbeats and back again . |
| 22 | Her hand was retained and to her astonishment given the slightest but most certain squeeze . |
| 23 | Out takes place at an unspecified time several decades after the unexplained but presumably cataclysmic event known as the ‘ displacement ’ . |
| 24 | He says it can be a bit slippery in the wet but otherwise it 's fine . |
| 25 | The ‘ individualism ’ at issue here is , of course , enmeshed in bourgeois categories ; but , in its own way , it seems no more ‘ crippled ’ for that than the different but equally ‘ bourgeois ’ individualism of a Schoenberg . |
| 26 | He used the old but very effective trick of balancing a five-pound note on a club head to demonstrate how this changed the swing-weight quite significantly . |
| 27 | Erm he , he then goes on basically erm to talk about spreading political propaganda which was obviously very important to his cause erm an and he was saying that basically , you know , suddenly with the rise of er peasant associations erm everyone would , would say down with imperialism , down with the warlords , down with the corrupt officials erm , you know , and that these , you know , basically he , he 's then highlighting the fact that these political slogans have , have found erm have found , you know you know er importance with the , with the young the middle aged an and the old but basically obviously he 's , he 's trying to target the school because that 's where he 's hoping where the re revolution 'll start . |
| 28 | In Unforgiven — a brilliant but never-clarified title — Bill Munny , Eastwood 's screen character , is quizzed about the times when he was the most feared gun in the West , irresistibly evoking memories of the Man With No Name 's six-shooter holocausts in Sergio Leone 's Dollars trilogy ( A Fistful Of Dollars , For A Few Dollars More and The Good , The Bad And The Ugly ) and the mellower but still genocidal guerilla of The Outlaw Josey Wales . |
| 29 | Advertising by manufacturers has become notorious for the extravagant but contractually ineffective commendation of goods . |
| 30 | It 's very thick on the outside but almost , you can almost see through some of the bone in the base there and that can be caused by as , a blow on the head if it 's the bolt of the erm brain that 's caused , got the injury , or from the base of skull is usually caused by er landing on your feet from heights , and |