Example sentences of "[adj] but the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fibre itself will ensure this but the extra fluid may help it a little — certainly the fluid has to come from somewhere , and it will do no harm if it is calorie-free . |
| 2 | The establishment of the UK clearinghouse was one response to this but the British Library Research and Development Department itself , through its deliberations on its programme of research and development in user education , has to some extent been a co-ordinating influence , though with a low profile . |
| 3 | [ Liverpool 's ] great stations — Lime Street , the Central and the Exchange — are centres of bustling life , of passengers coming and going ; and scarcely a day passes without the reminder that the city by the Mersey is not only English but the Continental portal to the New World . |
| 4 | ‘ The fees involved are n't very high but the actual money involved in modifying the car is . ’ |
| 5 | Chronic sulphasalazine treatment does not seem to be nephrotoxic but the systemic absorption of 5-ASA from sulphasalazine is relatively low . |
| 6 | MacQuillan 's was brown but the other man 's … |
| 7 | The colliding conversations are neatly synchronised but the main problem is that each part needs to convey a sense of tough experience with some firm characterisation which the self-conscious and rather tense cast could n't find in this patchy production . |
| 8 | Good boy keep working darling but the only problem with it , that the wheels do n't go round do they ? |
| 9 | Some displays were three-years old but the general feeling was never again . |
| 10 | This gave the sociology of knowledge a specific task in studying the sociological features on which systems of knowledge were dependent but the critical edge and the proposition of relationism had disappeared . |
| 11 | Scales are not usually given except as scale bars with units varying from one to another but the main chart is approximately 1:239,300 and the Caledonian Canal is in the order of 1:80,000 . |
| 12 | The water closet had been patented in 1775 but the widespread use of water carriage for sewage needed abundant water supply and good leakproof glazed drains . |
| 13 | At Arles nearby the screen wall is not in such good condition ; the design is similar but the Corinthian Order is used instead of Doric ( PLATE 26 ) . |
| 14 | Frivolous frou-frou feathers , spikey mules and a high hairstyle are crucial but the main accessory is attitude — if you 're going to wear it , flaunt it . |
| 15 | In the experience of ACET staff and volunteers , practical care in the home not only benefits the HIV infected individual but the whole family , which can often mean three generations . |
| 16 | The type of notes you make are personal but the important point is that you can follow them with only a glance . |
| 17 | What we have in both the approaches is an ‘ essentialist ’ view of sexuality ; sex conceptualised as an overpowering force in the individual that shapes not only the personal but the social life as well . |
| 18 | The Dee at Chester was fishable but the only action was from 40 cormorants who have taken up residence above the weir . |
| 19 | Conversion at common law may be committed in so many different ways that any comprehensive definition is probably impossible but the connecting thread running through the cases seems to be that the wrong is committed by a dealing with the goods of a person which constitutes an unjustifiable denial of his rights in them or the assertion of rights inconsistent therewith . |
| 20 | I had cut my hand on the gun : it was n't bleeding much but the little finger was bent sideways and I could n't move it . |
| 21 | In 1988 the old effective exchange rate had absolute values in the 70s but the new index is in the 90s . |
| 22 | It still looked easy but the slow progress of the parties ahead showed it was not . |
| 23 | It is not only the Children Act which is under-funded but the entire spectrum of Local Government and the National Health Services . |
| 24 | There has been a church on this site since 1170 but the present building dates from 1430 , with the famous hexagonal and crocketed spire being added in the early fifteenth hundreds . |
| 25 | Martin Luther King won the Nobel Peace Prize and Nelson Mandela was jailed for life ; Winston Churchill was 90 but the only fighting on the beaches was between the Mods and Rockers . |
| 26 | It is also accepted that the presence of risk factors may affect the length of treatment required to effect healing but the optimal duration of treatment in the presence of specific risk factors has never been investigated . |
| 27 | The miracles express both the belief in a God who reaches out and ‘ touches ’ — a God who can heal — and also the fact that not only healing but the whole message of Jesus is for all people . |
| 28 | So for example , if I went on er a job on Monday I could possibly draw gun number three but the following day if we went on a similar operation I might get gun number six . |
| 29 | The Americans were engaged in bloody battle against the Japanese empire from December 1941 but the Soviet Union had concluded a neutrality pact with Japan in April 1941 and , given the gigantic struggle against Nazi Germany , had no intention of becoming involved in the Far East before the European War had been successfully concluded . |
| 30 | The Radio Authority codes are quite satisfactory but the Independent TV Commission codes are another matter . |