Example sentences of "[adj] but [adv] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company considered many sites which fulfilled some but not all the criteria . |
| 2 | The situation is further confused when some but not all the operator information support is itself computer-based . |
| 3 | The society always received and still receives from the same surveyor a basic valuation containing a summary of some but not all the matters contained in the report to the borrower . |
| 4 | She moved nimbly and took his arm in a firm but not hurtful a grip . |
| 5 | Many but not all the mothers were unmarried : prostitutes and servant girls made pregnant by their masters . |
| 6 | Others before Frank Kermode , in his suave and erudite but ultimately acidulous The Classic ( New York , 1975 ) , had protested that as a framework inside which real political decisions and actions could be taken , Eliot 's Virgilian-Dantesque perspective was not just useless but dangerous . |
| 7 | By " special constructions " we mean in particular cumulative lists of adjectives as in ( 12 ) , where , however , the order may be explained by the quite general if ill-defined tendency to leave " heavy " constituents to the latest possible point , as in ( 13 ) : ( 12 ) policies foreign , social and educational ( 13 ) that salesman has just come back who kept getting in the way when you were trying to vaccinate the ewes last week Postnominal associatives may also just possibly be admitted in constructions expressing sharp opposition : ( 14 ) scientists nuclear but not biological The latter type , however , is at best questionable ; and , as a good general rule , we may say that associative adjectives do not normally occur in postnominal position . |
| 8 | The European market for acetate filament yarn is expected to shrink slightly during 1993 — disappointing but not such a blow as that experienced during the last two years which saw the market in Europe tumble from 40,000 tons to 30,000 . |
| 9 | But she was reassured when Ianthe came into the room , and her observant eye took in every detail of Ianthe 's ladylike but hardly fashionable appearance-the hair smooth and neat , gathered into a little roll at the back — the dress of a rather uninteresting shade of blue , with the skirt a good two inches too long by Penelope 's standards — the stockings with seams , and the shoes with sensible heels and rounded toes . |