Example sentences of "[adj] but in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 ! |
| 2 | They were brown but in the winter they turn white . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | did the Consultant have difficulty here I suggest but if one giver of strategy is demolished by public consultation then that 's fortunate but in the second demolish then your whole strategy tumbles down . |
| 6 | It was getting dark but in a beautiful silvery still way . |
| 7 | In the short run capital or plant capacity is fixed but in the long run it is variable . |
| 8 | The track felt soft and slithery but in the dark she could n't see what it was she was stepping on . |
| 9 | ‘ At 2–0 I thought it was going to be easy but in the end it was n't easy at all , ’ admitted Charlton in his after-match press conference . |
| 10 | The chance of winning £75,000 , then the top prize on the football pools , was too small to be visible but in the Fifties this slender possibility mesmerized the nation . |
| 11 | In a case of recognition an identification parade would often be pointless but in the present case an identification parade or at the least a controlled confrontation should have been held . |
| 12 | Brian Stewart , chief executive of Scottish and Newcastle , said the Budget was wide-ranging but in the context of his own industry , the Chancellor 's decision to raise excise duty on beer flew in the face of commercial reality . |
| 13 | Some of it I find a bit er a bit too obvious but in the same way erm on , on the sociology side , I get a bit angry because I see what society does to people . |
| 14 | The king 's eldest daughter , Isabella , long remained unmarried but in the early 1360s she met and fell in love with Enguerrand de Coucy , a French nobleman who came to England in 1360 as a hostage for the payment of John II 's ransom . |
| 15 | The rehearsals continued , subdued but in an orderly way . |
| 16 | The large figure of Athena is drawn in a modification of black-figure but in a style that could well be Euthymides 's . |
| 17 | ‘ Quite well , thank you , ’ was her polite but in no sense cheerful answer . |
| 18 | For a typical car , the carpet will only be about 2 cm thick , and will be quite short-lived but in the few seconds it lasts before collapsing it will transfer most of its heat to the road . |
| 19 | And just back to football , the South Midland premier division ; Thame United retain their lead at the top of the table with a narrow but in the end , comfortable victory at Langford this afternoon . |
| 20 | I would have thought that a standard missile would have ensured that a plane it brought down would not have struck the sea with its fuselage relatively intact but in a thousand pieces . |
| 21 | Whereas Long Riston used to be totally agricultural with ancillary trades , joiner , blacksmith etc ( at one time there were three blacksmiths in the village ) , it is now still agricultural but in the modern way , and most of the population earn their living in Hull , Beverley and elsewhere in the district . |
| 22 | As the depth is obviously restricted this form of extraction would take place over a wider area than normal but in a district like this where the overburden is thin this is no real hardship . |
| 23 | He stood breathing heavily and holding his arm ; wounded but in no pain . |
| 24 | The UK 's position in the mid 1960s provides a good example since she tried to avoid a change in her par value for as long as possible but in the end was forced to devalue because of increasing capital outflows . |
| 25 | Their activities ranged throughout the day and night and reached a peak of basically making a noise nuisance of themselves , there were other troubles which I will mention later , in which they would be playing two or three different sound systems , and at its worst , a full drum set in the early hours of the morning , obviously keeping their near neighbours not only awake but in a state of some anxiety . |
| 26 | Charlie Hatton had always been cocky but in the past weeks he 'd become insufferable and most of the meetings had broken up like this . |
| 27 | there are some of them that are very useful but in the majority of cases if the human is functioning well it 's producing it 's own steroids . |
| 28 | The illustrations , like those he subsequently did for Reginald Arkell 's Old Herbaceous ( 1950 ) are printed not in black but in a softer sage green . |
| 29 | Tavett had been shaky but in the end unmoved : he added nothing and changed nothing of what he had said on Saturday . |
| 30 | The EAT did not look at the offer of new terms in the abstract but in the light of the company 's financial difficulties . |