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 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Club atmosphere is casual but with an exciting dash of cosmopolitan sophistication . |
| 6 | Or a straight down blind but at an angle but er but on runners to hold , yeah . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | Afterwards she was forced to walk back to her own barracks on a freezing winter night , naked but for an anorak round her shoulders . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | For those keen on flying but with an aquatic interest it would help make the perfect corporate day out . |