Example sentences of "[art] [adj] but [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The contrast between the total but impersonal dependence of the proletariat and the personal dependence of the slave was an idea which Marx was to continue to develop in most of his later work . |
| 2 | The basic ingredients were provided by the painstaking but imaginative experimentation in the 1940s based on Abercrombie 's grand strategy , Pepler 's attention to procedures and Holford 's team 's introduction of new techniques . |
| 3 | Gombrich 's scholarly work includes many papers on meaning and interpretation in the visual arts , so that the broad but thin scope of his story of art is instructive ; by writing a survey he inevitably limited himself to a narrow range of comment . |
| 4 | They were back on the broad but darkened thoroughfare of Holborn . |
| 5 | The stitching is neat , but not too neat — that human touch , again — and there 's the smell ; the subtle but fragrant aroma of high-grade hide is almost as seductive as the whiff of crisp £50 notes . |
| 6 | And no courage to enquire , after the subtle but humiliating rejection she 'd experienced as they left Ghar Hasan . |
| 7 | With the agreement of my closest colleagues and the director of the MRC 's Clinical Research Centre , Dr C. C. Booth , I provided Dr Ted Steele with an environment in which he could complete his experiments in the friendly but critical atmosphere provided by immunologists who were trying to repeat his results themselves . |
| 8 | The strained but defiant Premier pleaded with Tory Euro-rebels not to vote against the Government . |
| 9 | Many years before he had described , as we have seen the acute but generalized sense of apprehension which invaded him at times of stress or exhaustion and one recognizes in his temperament a permanent sense of impending doom and disaster — as if the world were always threatening to fall in upon him . |
| 10 | We have already encountered an archetypal example of this in the Neolithic mother-goddess cult , and it may be that today , over-indulged children , not fully weaned because of permissive fashions in modern childrearing , and encouraged throughout their childhood and adolescence to remain dependent on parents who have been afraid to deny them anything , experience a similar hankering after the unobtainable but mouth-watering mother-as-breast . |
| 11 | The strong but legal protest methods used in recent years in the Stone House and Education campaigns made me very proud to be a Shropshireman . |
| 12 | His first task was to drive forward the strong but uncertain movement towards comprehensive schools . |
| 13 | There was another important political factor affecting the south-eastern tribes which created serious problems for Rome ; the insidious but powerful influence of the Druidic priesthood . |
| 14 | One may venture to make the proposition that the roots go back to the short-lived but glorious revolution of October 1956 . |
| 15 | My guess is that it was this if anything which provoked the reaction amongst British critics at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival , and the covert but unsuccessful attempt , reportedly led by a British daily newspaper , to have the film taken out of the Festival altogether . |
| 16 | The irreverent but salutary translation reads |
| 17 | The wobbling but persistent angle between earth 's axis and ecliptic ( Figure 1.2 ) has ensured that , though not always icy , polar regions have always been strongly seasonal . |
| 18 | Alec led the strenuous but short-lived pitch and I continued up the long Needle Crack : sustained but never too difficult ; glorious bridging above the full height of the crag . |
| 19 | There are nearly a thousand references , spanning the literature from palaeontology to molecular biology , much of it recent , but with good coverage of the eighteen and nineteenth centuries ( 12 references for ! ) and , perhaps most valuable , a survey of the extensive but scattered literature of the twentieth century . |
| 20 | She was not , however , clad in the unsuitable but respectable garb of Agnes Wickfield or even that of Betsy Trotwood . |
| 21 | They met in 1921 , became lovers , had three children , and their relationship survived the vicissitudes of his work , travels , other relationships and the understandable but violent jealousy of his long-suffering wife . |
| 22 | All the more unfortunate does this become in the presence of narrow majorities , each representing a minority of the electorate , sometimes a small minority , and when at least one of the parties believes that the prerogatives and rights conferred by electoral victory , however narrow , not merely entitle but compel it to impose on the helpless but unorganized majority irreversible changes for which it never consciously voted and to which most of its members are opposed . |
| 23 | The cuffs of his cream silk shirt were still linked , the discreet but expensive tie still knotted at his neck ; his only concession to the sun was that his light blue blazer was carefully laid out along the back seat . |
| 24 | Flip through the wacky but informative manual ( which casts you as a movie director ) and you 'll find that the first three programs let you construct 20-frame icon-sized movies . |
| 25 | We sipped — or in my case gulped — the weak but tasty punch , nibbled on Aunt Tone 's buffet-bits , and played Alternative Charades ; an invention of my father 's in which one first has to guess the category of the thing one is being asked to decipher . |
| 26 | All the same , the theme is still national honour and personal loyalty , the lessons which Dick teaches to Anastasia as successfully as he had taught them to the weak but responsive Carol . |
| 27 | So , like people in power everywhere he delegates the task of collecting the necessary bits to a servant — the faithful but dim hunchback , Egor . |
| 28 | Only then would ministers steel themselves to introduce the unpleasant but indispensable reform measures . |
| 29 | The sun was fully eclipsed by Arcadia now , and although the main source of illumination was now only the light refracted through the halo of the planet 's atmosphere , it was easier to see in the dim but diffuse light than in the glare and dark shadows that had been made by the unshielded sun . |
| 30 | One of these which originally led to the nonprofessional but nationally-recognized Certificate of Social Service ( CCETSW , 1975 ) , has now been incorporated into a new and alternative route to a full professional social work qualification for some of the kinds of social service personnel we have referred to as paraprofessionals ( CCETSW , 1989 ) . |