Example sentences of "[adj] but not [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The official report from the Department of Transport says experienced display pilots felt ’ the aircraft was being flown in a spirited but not unreasonable manner … but they agreed that the entry speed was insufficient for a full loop . ’ |
| 2 | Preston was aware that the twins were taking in all this with wonder and admiration , and as the Punk drew level with their seat , Daniel remarked in a reverent but not hushed tone : |
| 3 | Route served by : Pride of Walmer , Pride of Canterbury — the latter provides adequate but not top-notch service ( pleasant Club Class lounge ) . |
| 4 | From this it is deduced that the lexicon provides adequate but not complete coverage . |
| 5 | Otherwise the two ships offer adequate but not exciting service and facilities . |
| 6 | A different but not exclusive approach is to insist upon a conservation element being included in most rural development projects . |
| 7 | Secondary , or higher , education in that corner of Oxfordshire had enjoyed an interesting but not untypical history . |
| 8 | At high stringency it hybridizes to DNA from male but not female S. macroura , suggesting it represents a transcript from a Y-located gene . |
| 9 | I have a blister under my right ear , and I take twenty-five drops of laudanum every five hours , the ease and spirits gained by which have enabled me to write you this flighty but not exaggerated account . |
| 10 | We descended in human but not mechanical silence into the Inferno of the Friday evening rush hour , the appropriate punishment , I have long since thought , for the millions in that city and in every other who live and think as we did . |
| 11 | We completed the film during the early summer of 1979 and in August Mountbatten was granted the quick but not peaceful death he had asked for when his boat was blown up by an IRA bomb off the west coast of Ireland . |
| 12 | Pour in the oil and enough water to make a soft but not sticky dough . |
| 13 | Typically , the proximal but not distal part of the material extruding from the gastric pits was covered by a basement membrane ( Fig 1C ) . |
| 14 | Susanna Jennens herself lived on a comfortable but not vast income of £300 [ Sitwell , 21 ] . |
| 15 | The official results of the May 11 contest were not expected until June , and then had to be endorsed by Congress , but , with an estimated 86 per cent of the votes counted , unofficial tallies showed Ramos leading his closest rivals , Eduardo " Danding " Cojuangco and former judge Miriam Defensor Santiago , by a comfortable but not extensive margin . |
| 16 | Critics saw the policy as a legacy of the NCTA and applicable perhaps to technical but not higher education . |
| 17 | Syngman Rhee had established a strong but not invincible position in 1948 . |
| 18 | More scrounging for good , strong but not thick string , a quick knot , the string was threaded through the conker and you were ready to do battle . |
| 19 | This letter of strong but not unexpected challenge reached Asquith soon after noon . |
| 20 | A soft-backed but not soft-centred book , exploring a variety of professional and ethical dilemmas faced by nurses working in clinical practice . |
| 21 | It is obvious that Alison has not recovered in any sense , and is just managing to keep out of hospital by maintaining her weight at a low but not life-threatening level . |
| 22 | By worldwide standards , this is a low but not exceptional density . |
| 23 | Scud attacks continued throughout January [ see table ] , with Patriot missile batteries in Saudi Arabia ( and later in Israel — see below ) proving an effective but not infallible defence measure . |
| 24 | It is logical that they revealed an intimate but not servile attachment to the achievements of past master sculptors . |
| 25 | He showed us into the buffet , and waitresses brought vodka and red caviare and stared at us in that curious but not impolite way that so many people do in Russia . |
| 26 | A vice is a useful but not essential piece of equipment . |
| 27 | From there the single line emerged onto the road , and along one side of it the train to West Cork would puff and blow at a brisk but not incautious pace , its smoke staining the leaves of the roadside trees , the guard ringing his bell almost without stop until they were approaching Carrigrohane and could reasonably expect to be out of range of busy pedestrians , excited children , and messenger boys on bicycles plaguing the engine-driver by trying to outspeed him . |
| 28 | There is an important but not complete relationship between class and partisan support . |
| 29 | For if left cultural criticism is not about changing the world , in some small but not insignificant way , then what is it about ? |
| 30 | Merchiston Publishing has become a small but not insignificant niche publisher . |