Example sentences of "[adj] but [adv] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then asks " how should one recognise authority ? " and answers that " degrees only prove knowledge ; look among those who really love art and literature " , and he goes on to conclude : " The artist , if he really is an artist , possesses absolute value which he can not lose : the man of science , once refuted or superseded , retains no absolute but only an historical importance . " |
| 2 | I do not intend to have a restrictive but rather an expansive definition . |
| 3 | These are balls too big and important to juggle carelessly and Hooto ( TM ) , earnest , needy , industrious but essentially an intellectual featherweight , does n't even manage to lift them off the ground . |
| 4 | ‘ The manager must be flexible but consistent , culturally diverse but recognisably an individual with his own identity . |
| 5 | This , for example , is why he believed Hobbes ( and himself ) to be an authoritarian but not an absolutist . |
| 6 | The exhibition most deliberately linked to Columbus was that at the Musée Barbier-Mueller in Geneva , the catalogue for which is a magnificent book , written by eight authors , half of whose essays were translated into French ( Spanish and Catalan editions are available but not an English translation ) . |
| 7 | Lord himself was a capable but not an outstanding player . |
| 8 | It should be noted that , properly speaking , wrappers are quite different from jackets or dust wrappers , which are not part of the binding but simply an extraneous protection . |
| 9 | This ‘ newness ’ , which is not really new but more an expansion of the rigid barriers of the individual self so that we see something as if we were not ourselves , is , I believe , one of the attributes of authentic , pleasurable art . |