Example sentences of "[art] [adj -er] but [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The preferred route lay along the coast of the Arabian peninsula , away from the deeper but vulnerable water on the Iranian side . |
| 2 | The salerooms have not seen such a fine private collection sold since the great suite of sales at Sotheby 's in the 1970s ( the William Goodwin Renwick collection from America , arms released from the Saxon Royal Armouries at Dresden , and the smaller but comparable Gewehrkammer of the Counts von Giech ) . |
| 3 | On the other hand , the wider but cognate field of anthropology was emerging rapidly as a recognised science out of law , philosophy , ethnology and travel literature , the study of language and folklore and the medical sciences ( via the then popular subject of ‘ physical anthropology ’ which led to a fashion for measuring and collecting the skulls of various peoples ) . |
| 4 | A further but related problem is that many of OED 's definitions enshrine outdated scientific , social , and political beliefs . |
| 5 | However , a faster alignment through a new King 's Cross station remains a possible alternative in spite of the opposition of the Treasury , which prefers a cheaper but roundabout line into St Pancras . |
| 6 | With Croat forces pursuing a smaller but similar offensive in western Hercegovina , the crude carve-up of the republic following its April 7 recognition is squeezing the Slavic Muslims , its biggest group . |
| 7 | When the negotiations began at Dalat it was Giap who assumed the principal role on the Vietnamese side and while , as communists , they might have accepted a smaller but communist state that could conceivably have been free of the French , it was as nationalists that the Vietminh argued their case for indissoluble national unity . |
| 8 | But the trend analyses also confirm that press partisanship had a smaller but clear influence on perceptions amongst both Labour and Conservative identifiers . |
| 9 | A higher but unknown proportion of the 28 per cent of births now outside marriage are also likely to be unwanted . |
| 10 | A wider but related set of matters was brought to the fore around this same period by the ‘ history-of-religions school ’ ( Religionsgeschichtliche Schule ) , which may be reckoned to have begun with Otto Pfleiderer 's Primitive Christianity ( 1887 ; E.T . |
| 11 | Before it the system quails and adopts an easier but illogical alternative . |