Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] but [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dockers even today , see they 're still got the , still got the erm National Dock Labour Board but now the employers wan na do away with it . |
| 2 | Penalty shootouts were required in each instance but only the most optimistic fan — or a representative from the Guinness Book of Records — would have forecast it happening again . |
| 3 | I think we need not only a strong parliament but also a strong presidency . ’ |
| 4 | Louise was French and luscious , as every male in the district between the ages of fourteen and eighty-four would testify — most from wishful thinking but quite a number from experience . |
| 5 | Greece thus offers not only the first instance of this change but also the essential one for any attempt to isolate the cultural consequences of alphabetic literacy ’ ( ibid. p. 42 ) . |
| 6 | This was not a one-off experience but rather the culmination of many experiments , much discussion and thoughtful provision of leading ideas by the teacher . |
| 7 | Staff understand the reasons for the Government and Commercial split but not the isolation of Services , in general giving rise to ‘ Cynicism and demotivation and reducing productivity . ’ |
| 8 | It has been argued that the communist utopia is not a scientific prediction but merely a projection of the ‘ wish-images ’ of those who adopt a Marxist position . |
| 9 | Answer guide : They have no direct effect but often the debtor is the other side of the sales entry . |
| 10 | He tried to distance the party from the question of public ownership but then the shadow Scottish secretary , Tom Clarke , acknowledged the possibility of private Scottish companies operating under a Labour government . |
| 11 | The Templeton series on district general managers confirmed the importance of this issue but also the lack of progress . |
| 12 | Thus the coastline receives not only the products of marine erosion but also the waste derived from subaerial erosion . |
| 13 | Alina smiled , with some confidence but also a lot of apprehension still , and she moved around the table toward the door . |
| 14 | And and I think that 's why this particular policy is very important to the Selby district because it allows us to address the balance between meeting what I would call the justifiable development but also the equally important environmental consideration . |
| 15 | My contention is that the main cause of the British predicament has not been the British economy but rather the decline of sterling and the failure of British policy to adapt to that decline … . |
| 16 | Some machinery but not the wheel still survives , in the cellar of what is now Malvern House . |
| 17 | To approach someone with a microphone and an innocent smile , asking for ‘ some natural conversational English , if you would be so kind ’ , guarantees the acoustic quality but hardly the linguistic content . |
| 18 | Its most likely function would be to enable one speaker to convey not only the matter of a remark by another speaker but also the manner in which it was made . |
| 19 | Remarkably , exactly the same pattern was seen with chimpanzee DNA , indicating not only a duplication of ZNF11 genes in this ape but also a conservation of sequence at all four EcoRI sites defined in man . |
| 20 | A similar conception of the role of sociology ( though with a more ‘ radical ’ political orientation ) is held by certain contemporary sociologists who want sociology to be not simply a discipline which analyses and explains social life but rather a vehicle for changing society , a discipline committed to the extensive alteration of existing social structural arrangements . |
| 21 | back seat for soccer this weekend but still an awful lot to play for what with Oxford fighting relegation and Swindon chasing promotion |
| 22 | It is an interesting idea but not a solution to the problem . |
| 23 | The full 13 parts are to be shown later this year but only the very-hard-to-please will jib at the prospect of seeing these three programmes again . |
| 24 | Concepts such as ’ semantically correct ’ and ’ semantically incorrect ’ remain somewhat contentious , and in practice are inessential to the text recognition problem : the measure of success is not found in adherence to some formal semantic proof but simply the ability to choose the same word as a human observer would . |
| 25 | They are social history but also the lightly disguised story of Flora Thompson 's youth . |
| 26 | The decided cases do not yet give a clear answer to this problem but presumably the retention of title clause would entitle the seller to take and re-sell such of the timber he had supplied under this contract as remained unsold and unmixed in the buyer 's possession . |
| 27 | slightly different material but substantially the same n nature same scale of development , I believe that we have a track record that shows that we were are tough and will continue to be tough I |
| 28 | Grigson , writing in The Listener , was equally forthright : he found in Minton 's work interesting prose but not a poetry of interpretation . |
| 29 | ‘ As you can imagine it has been total panic but fortunately the suppliers have been very co-operative and we will be ready . ’ |
| 30 | Yet there were many even among his admirers who acknowledged that there were latent dangers in having the country who were certain to provide the numerically strongest contingent additionally furnishing not just the manager and assistant coach but also the captain . |