Example sentences of "[adj] but [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I 'm sure that screaming along with fifteen knot in a force six is really exciting but for a landlubber like myself it 's certainly not on . |
| 2 | ‘ It was really good and really exciting but in a way it was also like a flashback to 1983 or something , because I still wanted to do completely different songs to everyone else ! |
| 3 | The stress σ is applied to spring E 1 and dashpot η 3 ; it is also shared by E 2 and η 2 but in a manner which varies with time . |
| 4 | Governors were kept informed but as a decision of the headteachers rather than as a matter of right . |
| 5 | Whatever your opinion of ABBA 's music , you must admit they had a hell of a knack for penning a commercial tune ; the chord sequence here is fairly standard but with a couple of nice twists , with the bass playing a central role in the arrangement . |
| 6 | When the Newcastle goalkeeper rose to his feet after treatment , Mr Jones chose to re-start play not with a free-kick but with a drop-ball inside the penalty area . |
| 7 | If it were not for the fact that he was one of the favourites you 'd have been delighted but as a Gold Cup winner I had to feel a bit disappointed . |
| 8 | The Convention is confined to international financial leasing , that is , to leasing which in economic terms is equivalent to a sale or purchase-money loan , the equipment being leased to a single lessee at whose request it was bought and the rentals being fixed not by reference to the use-value of the equipment as such but at a level which , taking into account cash-flows , tax-reliefs , and the like , will guarantee to the lessor the reim-bursement of his capital costs and desired return on capital . |
| 9 | ( Oh , yes , I was a handsome rogue , tall with jet-black hair , olive-skinned but with a cast in one eye , I always thought it gave me a devil-may-care look . ) |
| 10 | From its harsh too-shiny texture there was no doubt it was synthetic but from a distance it looked like a black cat 's pelt . |
| 11 | He had dreamed about Mr Whistle , picturing him as a child-sized man in a Little Lord Fauntleroy outfit , with floppy velvet bows and knickerbockers , his head a white eggshape , featureless but for a shark 's gash of a mouth . |
| 12 | He came , looking as he always did , huge , a little untidy but with a smile of great sweetness on his lean face , from which the tan had almost completely faded . |
| 13 | The large figure of Athena is drawn in a modification of black-figure but in a style that could well be Euthymides 's . |
| 14 | It left quite an impression , because it needed the brilliant virtuosity that Repin already had at that time , and it needed powerful playing from the orchestra , not just loud but with a lot of richness for the fast passages — you know how to judge a great orchestra when you hear let's say thousands of notes in a few seconds , and there 's still a special timbre . |
| 15 | As a colleague you 're deficient but as a neighbour you 're marvellous . |
| 16 | At first it was quite nice attending interviews and things like that but after a while they all just become the same . |
| 17 | As the depth is obviously restricted this form of extraction would take place over a wider area than normal but in a district like this where the overburden is thin this is no real hardship . |
| 18 | In this way grammar would not be presented as primary but as a consequence of the achievement of meaning through the modification of lexical items . |
| 19 | Their activities ranged throughout the day and night and reached a peak of basically making a noise nuisance of themselves , there were other troubles which I will mention later , in which they would be playing two or three different sound systems , and at its worst , a full drum set in the early hours of the morning , obviously keeping their near neighbours not only awake but in a state of some anxiety . |
| 20 | From here it dog-legs left , through sentinel bunkers to a small green , almost flat but with a list to port that will throw away any ball slightly wayward . |
| 21 | ‘ It sounds terrible but for a while you felt like the local people were to blame . ’ |
| 22 | We were led into a room , bare but for a desk , a chair , a row of helmets and a set of bulletproof vests hanging on the wall like carcasses . |
| 23 | The overall look is comfortable and traditional but with a light , airy quality . |
| 24 | The conditions producing weakness in this respect are highly complex but at a risk of oversimplification one might say that the balance of payments constraint reflects a relative ‘ industrial ossification ’ of the British economy — a failure to restructure and reinvest on a sufficient scale to maintain the position of the national economy on the world market . |
| 25 | he was tired , he 's got this cold coming on but he said you can be in here so long but after a while you feel as though you 've got to come out , you need to get out ! |
| 26 | The difference is that Orton 's pastiche is comic but in a way which interrogates rather than presupposes the norm . |
| 27 | His hair was grey but with a trace of red hair remaining in his bushy eyebrows . |
| 28 | Endill did not hear anything at first but after a minute or two heard what he thought was a cough in the distance . |
| 29 | ‘ The beast was terrifying at first but after a while you realised he was a big softie underneath . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'd been asking why she 'd taken a clerical job when she 'd had an art training and she said it was all she could get at first but after a while she 'd managed to wangle this daytime class . ’ |