Example sentences of "[adj] but [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I 'm sure that screaming along with fifteen knot in a force six is really exciting but for a landlubber like myself it 's certainly not on . |
| 2 | ‘ It was really good and really exciting but in a way it was also like a flashback to 1983 or something , because I still wanted to do completely different songs to everyone else ! |
| 3 | Slightly raised intraocular pressures were controlled with timolol 0.25% twice daily but with no improvement in acuity , which by March 1992 had deteriorated to 6/36 right and 6/60 left . |
| 4 | The progress of this relationship is n't altogether clear but at the end of the book he describes the Italian male lover as a ‘ sleepy tomcat ’ and Vittoria 's life as subject to frequent phases of ‘ wailing neck biting followed by complacent indifference ’ from such men . |
| 5 | He was good-looking but of the rough , hirsute kind . |
| 6 | You know , it 's funny but over the years I can always remember you saying : me , my , mine . |
| 7 | The tide was high but on the turn , lapping sluggishly against the rocks at the river 's edge . |
| 8 | Take the steamer , not to Rutli direct but to the calling place round the corner of the Seelisberg cliff face , Treib ( which , by the way , is pronounced like the English word " tripe " ) . |
| 9 | Athenian work , however , dominates sixth-century vase-painting , not only by the quantity produced and exported but by the superb quality of the best . |
| 10 | It was the triumphant and majestic application of the techniques perfected by Joseph Paxton for the Crystal Palace ( 1851 ) , an arching rib-cage of iron to support a skin-covering of glass , admitting light but excluding the elements . |
| 11 | It 's also pretty wet but with the ratchet block taking the strain out of controlling the sail I can concentrate on technique and having fun and respond to the gusts by sheeting in or sheeting out if I 'm overpowered and moving bodyweight in or out to suit the . |
| 12 | Er and we feel that that would be er unrealistic but within the modelling context , we do n't think that it needs to be separately taken into account . |
| 13 | In the 1950s Dulles ' threat of ‘ massive retaliation ’ in the event of war , did not seem unrealistic but by the 1970s a position of ‘ mutually-assured destruction ’ was reached between the Superpowers . |
| 14 | They were brown but in the winter they turn white . |
| 15 | Finn had at last wrenched Bothwell free but at the cost of tearing apart his controls ; in a spiky halo of torn wire , Bothwell crumpled to the floor . |
| 16 | It must be tight-fitting but at the same time easy to remove , for as the caterpillars grow they will consume enormous amounts of nettles . |
| 17 | It is beautifully detailed but in a musical rather than analytical sense , offering a degree of presence which communicates real emotion where the programme offers it . |
| 18 | It was empty but for the Doctor , looking very smug , and the TARDIS . |
| 19 | Then he went , leaving the house empty but for the woman and the Overseer . |
| 20 | The roof of the City stretched away from him like a vast field of snow , empty but for the small group of officials who were gathered , heads bowed , beside the open hatchway . |
| 21 | One night the black spring sky may be quiet and peaceful , empty but for the cicadas . |
| 22 | The car park was empty but for the elderly gentleman 's massive Ford , which was just crunching over the gravel towards the road , an old but impressive bronze Aston Martin which Charlotte supposed must belong to Gus — it sent him up a couple of notches in her regard — and the school bus , still stationary , boiling over with bored boys , and emitting a plaintive chorus of : ‘ Why are we waiting ? ’ |
| 23 | I am nothing but a stomach of cheap tin , empty but for the clanking of a few tin cans which have been squashed by a gargantuan hand and thrown together . |
| 24 | Siobhan 's bedroom is empty but for the pink carpet , a bed with a pink bedspread and a chest of drawers rattling vacantly from some obscure , whining wind . |
| 25 | The place is empty but for the bar and three or four slightly-built lads shooting pool without words . |
| 26 | He was standing in his pyjamas in his bedroom , which was empty but for the usual furniture . |
| 27 | They 're Italian , they 're 25 years old but at the same time brand new … |
| 28 | Governors were kept informed but as a decision of the headteachers rather than as a matter of right . |
| 29 | Games always result in a win-lose outcome where someone comes out on top but at the other person 's expense . |
| 30 | The Harlequin man pursed his lips and sucked in his cheeks not in a cadaverous but in a speculative , mischievous style which nevertheless bespoke some fatal intent . |