Example sentences of "[art] [adj] but [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The audience knew it too — it showed in the polite but faintly puzzled round of applause , far less enthusiastic than she normally received . |
| 2 | He seldom thought of the half-dozen men who had been hanged during the twenty years of his forensic experience , primarily because of his evidence , and when he did , it was not the strained but oddly anonymous faces in the dock which he remembered , or their names ; but paper and ink , the thickened downward stroke , the peculiar formation of a letter . |
| 3 | The associated but very different payment of the Census was made by monasteries that had the protection of St Peter 's vicar , the pope . |
| 4 | This particular parcel bore , on the third sheet , the one closest the body , the smudged but still discernible name and address of a woman in Reading ; a Mrs Dyer of Kensington Road . |
| 5 | In their infinite wisdom , the SFA had arranged for a Scotland Under 23 side to travel with the senior squad , in the admirable but ultimately naive belief that it would be a learning experience for the young stars of the future . |
| 6 | He had the enviable but potentially inconvenient gift of making each visitor feel that he was the person Montini had been waiting all his life to talk to . |
| 7 | The de Warrenes had died out in the later middle ages , the priory was pulled down in 1538 , and with the disappearance of traditional authorities attention turned to the lesser but more numerous town houses of prosperous local merchants and the gentry who needed homes for the legal and social seasons . |
| 8 | He had successfully led the School from the dark days of war , through a time of austerity thereafter , and on to the easier but still challenging years of the 1950s . |
| 9 | Her hand was retained and to her astonishment given the slightest but most certain squeeze . |
| 10 | Out takes place at an unspecified time several decades after the unexplained but presumably cataclysmic event known as the ‘ displacement ’ . |
| 11 | He used the old but very effective trick of balancing a five-pound note on a club head to demonstrate how this changed the swing-weight quite significantly . |
| 12 | In Unforgiven — a brilliant but never-clarified title — Bill Munny , Eastwood 's screen character , is quizzed about the times when he was the most feared gun in the West , irresistibly evoking memories of the Man With No Name 's six-shooter holocausts in Sergio Leone 's Dollars trilogy ( A Fistful Of Dollars , For A Few Dollars More and The Good , The Bad And The Ugly ) and the mellower but still genocidal guerilla of The Outlaw Josey Wales . |
| 13 | Advertising by manufacturers has become notorious for the extravagant but contractually ineffective commendation of goods . |
| 14 | And it shows the easy but potentially dangerous slide from manageable credit purchases into a vicious circle of cash loans and increasing indebtedness — all with the same credit caller . |
| 15 | The facts of deixis should act as a constant reminder to theoretical linguists of the simple but immensely important fact that natural languages are primarily designed , so to speak , for use in face-to-face interaction , and thus there are limits to the extent to which they can be analysed without taking this into account ( Lyons , 1977a : 589ff ) . |
| 16 | 60 ) , in fact , helps to emphasize the consistent but often indirect relationship between the mosaics of this group . |
| 17 | The move south was now imperative in an attempt to contact Allied ships , and platoon areas for future operations were picked by the dubious but only available criteria : those towns in bold type on Bernard Callinan 's map were chosen as platoon centres . |
| 18 | It is ironic that the media tend to promote individuals in this last group — the autonomous but less creative — as the superstars of the business world , yet many of them are not actually very productive in our economic system . |
| 19 | Just around the corner from Sion House they found a narrow five-story terraced house built in the 1840s but impeccably Georgian in every other respect . |
| 20 | Raking through the out-of-date but always interesting ‘ History ’ shelves at a local second-hand bookshop several days later , I chanced upon a thirteen-year-old volume , titled Sieges of the Great Civil War , by Brigadier Peter Young and Wilfrid Emberton . |
| 21 | If you want to go through the details of assignment and analysis , there are many excellent treatments that will help you , varying in depth from the brief but extremely clear account in Ref. [ 20 ] to long and complicated books on the subject , for example , Ref. [ 21 ] . |
| 22 | Perhaps this was just as well since the jolly but rather juvenile japes her sister embarked upon might not have pleased her . |
| 23 | The pretty but comparatively minor portrait , ‘ Mabel , daughter of Charles Galloway , J.P . |
| 24 | Solicitors on the outside of the lucrative but tight criminal market wanted to get inside it . |
| 25 | DIRECTOR Roman Polanski turns on the shock treatment in the passionate but quite perverse BITTER MOON ( Cert 18 ; West End ) . |
| 26 | As the next straight stretch of lane came into view , Yanto took a deep breath , held it , and with a quick twist of the throttle raced past the obnoxious but very necessary vehicle . |
| 27 | After passing the welcome but rather unexpected Sportsman 's Inn , the river is re-crossed at Stone House Bridge , one of the few places on this narrow highway where there is space to park a few cars . |
| 28 | In this , one recognises that he is trying to defend the questionable but deeply entrenched politico-sociological dogma that social phenomena result only from social causes . |
| 29 | So the first thing you 'd expect on just by the false but enormously appealing principle that the world is simple and elegant , is there is just one level of structure there . |
| 30 | At no point throughout the weekend did he seem at ease in the new car , his driving lacking the urgent but dramatically effective style seen in the past . |