Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adj] but [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The swordfish 's dorsal fin is very different to the sailfish 's , since it is high in front but much shorter as it curves towards the tail . |
| 2 | We 're getting pretty high on content but very low on analysis , would n't you say ? |
| 3 | Each covered his river valley with a new castle , wooden at first but soon replaced with a substantial stone structure . |
| 4 | They wrote one another at first but then my ex-wife had another child , you know how it is … |
| 5 | Similar to this but very thin . |
| 6 | The rise in the oil price after 1979 was mainly responsible not only for the growth in the share of this group of products in total imports from 1979 to 1984 but also for its decline during the following three years . |
| 7 | We spent around £450,000 in 1991 on unconventional but highly selective media . |
| 8 | The net effect leaves revenue forecasts unchanged for 1993 but sharply increased by 2003 as rail traffic rises on the completion of high speed links . |
| 9 | A higher proportion of the earlier generation did not attend university at all — 8 out of 35 in 1940 but only 8 out of 135 in 1970 . |
| 10 | Shaking a little at first but gradually warming to his theme , the sacked Chancellor dealt John Major a devastating blow . |
| 11 | Initially she was simply bewildered by this but soon she was plain angry . |
| 12 | The dining-room , drawing-room , parlour and kitchen were all of good but reasonable size. , |
| 13 | On the way back to his conversation the barman punched a button on the television and suddenly they were in Texas , where folk lived and loved fit to bust and discussed it all in idiomatic but poorly synchronized Italian . |
| 14 | Young Eric , who was modestly competent in English but certainly not fluent , was packed off first to a boarding school then to University College School , Hampstead . |
| 15 | From the 1730s onwards , therefore , it was involved in intermittent but sometimes very bitter disputes with the government , which was notably more orthodox in its attitude to religious matters and often overbearing and insensitive in its efforts to have the papal bull Unigenitus ( see p. 453 ) registered by the Parlement . |
| 16 | The Serbs are first referred to as a distinct group in the Balkans in the writings of the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII ( Porphyrogenitus , nominally emperor from 913 to 959 but effectively so from 945 ) His massive work De administrando imperio , written in the tenth century , refers to Serbs who were subjects of his predecessors and who were converted to Christianity in the ninth century . |
| 17 | In Aglaia ( Meliaceae ) in the Malay Peninsula , this range seems to be associated with the different chemical constitution of the fruits offered : three species with dehiscent fruits with arillate seeds were taken by at least nine bird species and there was a high lipid content ( 27–60% ) ; other species taken by primates were lower in lipid but higher in free carbohydrates ( reducing sugars and sucrose ) and sweet-tasting amino acids . |
| 18 | I was n't too happy about that but never mind . |
| 19 | The shift in winds as the international economy moved from the extravagant eighties to the uncharted nineties has been evident for sometime but only the master helmsman could have kept afloat until now . |
| 20 | To top things off , she wore the sort of sunglasses most people thought were old-fashioned in 1958 but now cost about fifty quid a go , and nearly a furlong of white chiffon wrapped around her head snood-like . |
| 21 | It may have been idyllic to some but evidently not to the people who lived as close to the land as James Seely did . |
| 22 | Styles became more back-comby bouffantish and rock-hard lacquered as smooth held sway , then the loose , fairly full on top but very long & layered at the back & sides cut of later '70/'71 . |
| 23 | How good to run , her legs wobbly at first but then miraculously able to move easily and fast . |
| 24 | I was puzzled at first but now I know why they do it , why they stretch their throats like that . |
| 25 | Rather than become side-tracked by interesting but relatively insignificant phenomena , some generative linguists are now using corpora to identify where a grammarian 's efforts can best be concentrated . |
| 26 | Red shirts clashed with blue , sometimes one of each but occasionally in bunches . |
| 27 | Hopefully , you are all erm familiar with these but just in case you are not right , let's just er run through them . |
| 28 | August-September 1939 Secret protocols attached to Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact agree division of Eastern Europe , assigning Lithuania first to German but later to Soviet sphere . |
| 29 | Mr. W. E. Gladstone was Prime Minister from 1880 to 1885 but then that post alternated between the Marquess of Salisbury and Mr. Gladstone until the turn of the century , with a short interlude in 1894–1895 when the Earl of Rosebery was in that office . |
| 30 | He felt annoyed at first but then he realized that he was running far better than he had been the previous day and that he was n't even trying . |