Example sentences of "[det] but [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was indeed information given to Labour on this but that application proceeded by the Council and I think some of the officers have omitted that in the last few weeks . |
| 2 | She resolved on this but three hours later , having eaten Tom 's Indian takeaway and drunk half Tom 's wine , she was telling him her whole history . |
| 3 | No doubt lawyers would be happy with this but conventional breeding programmes could well suffer . |
| 4 | The only problem is , I du n no if there 's a mistake on this but this modem box right ? |
| 5 | this diagram does n't actually incorporate this but full thing is going to be the initial costs , the costs of moving , okay , so there , there may be actual physical costs involved this diagram . |
| 6 | The older man smiled widely , showing off his few but sound teeth . |
| 7 | One of the few but important things Preston and William had in common as children was the dominant role of women in their lives . |
| 8 | All social progress has caused pain to some but liberated others . |
| 9 | It is all around , all of the time , and not even an interpretation of another but similar society , ‘ at home ’ in what Hastrup ( 1987 ) has called a ‘ parallel culture ’ . |
| 10 | And there these twelve men and two boys , who , with nothing much but bare hands , the sailor man 's gift for improvisation , and their indomitable guts , had fought sea and fire for their ship and won , were cared for and each of them given his heart 's desire . |
| 11 | little bits , little bits and I 'll buy you your tobacco Neil nothing much but little bits of something now if he were working and could give me the full sixty that is thirty for his room and thirty for his food so that I did n't have to worry about th actually paying for him but he was paying me Paul is going to pay me fifty that 's thirty pounds in , I made a rule to Paul that he is going to eat thirty pounds worth of food and there are only twenty pounds in my profit and then the other rule , a man called Alan this window cleaner he wants the room that I 'm in at the moment |
| 12 | It is not disturbance as such but uncontrollable disturbance which leads to uncertainty . |
| 13 | In Nigeria they are called Medical Extension Officers as they feel that they are not assistants as such but great contributors to health care . |
| 14 | After more than a hundred years of the recognition of industrial picketing as a democratic mechanism the official Code of Practice issued by the Department of Employment says : ‘ There is no legal ‘ right to picket ’ as such but peaceful picketing has long been recognised as lawful . ’ |
| 15 | JEDBURGH Most extensive remains of all the ravaged Border abbeys , with glass-less but beautiful rose window known as St Catherine 's Wheel . |
| 16 | Be prepared to buy fewer but better clothes . |
| 17 | The product sectors on which we have focused will , I believe , be proven to be increasingly beneficial to us as consumers look for fewer but better quality , better value products . |
| 18 | Britain needs fewer but brighter racecourses , each with a range of facilities that will attract customers for 300 days a year , not 10 . |
| 19 | For example , Turnock ( 1968 ) in a study of northeast Scotland found that depopulation in the area was not only a function of a retreat from hill farming but also a process of concentration into fewer but larger settlements , and Johnston ( 1965 ) in a study of northern England found that village size was important in not only retaining the existing population but also attracting newcomers from nearby towns . |
| 20 | It will mean fewer but larger bands for the army , with the State bands of the Household Division and the Royal Artillery , strong tourism revenue earners described by the Defence Ministry as an essential part of the national fabric , again surviving . |
| 21 | The industry is being concentrated into fewer but larger factories using new modern machinery and making high value , special cloths and clothes . |
| 22 | The latter is a good example of his more extended type of cantata with fewer but longer sections than Rossi 's : The opening of the duet will also illustrate one of Carissimi 's most striking characteristics , his genuine sense of key : The slow , uncertain supersession of mode by key had not yet generally revealed the possibilities of tonality for variety and dynamic structure ; composers still treated a key very much as a mode , a tonal area within which they could move and from which they wandered uncertainly , and which helped to give unity to a composition . |
| 23 | The surrounding catchment area at first contributes little but clear run-off , and the lake water remains oligotrophic for a long period . |
| 24 | The recent Sunday Sport contains little but topless models and sports gossip . |
| 25 | Donors will help , Britain 's commitment of five hundred and fifty million pounds for the special programme of assistance to Africa since nineteen eighty , is testimony to that but African governments must own their reform programmes . |
| 26 | and a cup of coffee and a cigarette , and I always do that but this day I was so tired after the doing the garden , both gardens like and fucking weeding them all and doing everything else and brushing out the back and doing I said to him for fuck 's sake do them dishes for me for a change William would you I said , so I got er got myself in the bath said I 'm away to bingo , so William 's gone out what happened ? eight , I had eight he had one you may get yourself I said ah fuck no wonder I have no fucking luck , so on the settee and said I 'm not going anywhere , I sat for ten minutes then I said ah fuck you why should I sit here so I lifted the car keys and walked out again then , fucking zooming out of and there was John coming up like that |
| 27 | It 's like you could do , that but this quality , and you could do this and that really |
| 28 | I mean , I always felt like that but this time was worse . |
| 29 | Yeah I know that but next year I mean you got the tunnel coming out of the Ferry . |
| 30 | Amphoterics are high foaming and extremely efficient detergents but their expense tends to rule them out for all but specialist applications . |