Example sentences of "[adj] but [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a primitive but thoroughly respectable bit of computing . |
| 2 | There are several blank pages after this but perhaps another minute book , now lost , was started . |
| 3 | If you are shifting your base as opposed to just your body , these might seem demanding routes , and there is instead a far easier but still pleasing route over the Col d'Osquich . |
| 4 | The case was heard by an exceptionally unconventional judge , but one of sound common sense , Mr Justice Caulfield , who more recently found fame in his unorthodox but equally commonsensical summing-up in the Jeffrey Archer action , where his description of Mrs Archer as ‘ fragrant ’ , no doubt causing great embarrassment to the lady , will go down in the history of judicial extravagance . |
| 5 | A less exciting but equally innovative characteristic of princely officials was that they now existed in sufficient numbers to be used to check up on one another . |
| 6 | They prefer ‘ junk food ’ laden with additives , cholesterol and calories , but with very low nutrition value , to the less exciting but more nutritious food offered by the institution . |
| 7 | Since Kate , Peter and Walter moved into the house , which incorporates the 12th-century priory walls , a ghostly but very palpable waft of snuffed candles and burning incense has thrice been known to signify benediction on St Peter 's day . |
| 8 | A favourite but much over-worked vehicle for public relations is the information service or bureau for a manufacturer . |
| 9 | FIRST Millwall won the war — then they got round to winning this brutal but utterly compelling match at The Den . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was a clear but rather chilly night . |
| 12 | Well , on the specific issue , which is item one three two , are we agreed that we write quite clear but nonetheless firm letter to Mr Patten , explaining that we are minded to ask him to comment on these matters , it this time comes from the Chair and the Chief Officer about and perhaps he will therefore take it more seriously . |
| 13 | He stroked the Trinity boat to head of the river , and as a notably good-looking but somewhat challenging undergraduate enjoyed to the full the leisured life of his college . |
| 14 | Not much of that fabled but very real gold has survived . |
| 15 | The 1970s and 1980s have seen a series of fundamental economic problems beset not only British but also international capitalism . |
| 16 | It was without a speck of dirt or grime , the old wooden floors white with constant scrubbing ; the pallets on which the sick lay were furnished with coarse but spotlessly clean linen . |
| 17 | Out takes place at an unspecified time several decades after the unexplained but presumably cataclysmic event known as the ‘ displacement ’ . |
| 18 | This development led , among some of the partners in the education system , to a sense of chaos ( TES 1991b:12 ) : A combination of over-prescriptive legislation , a well-meaning but disastrously complicated assessment system and an indefensible system to use GCSE for the statutory end-of-stage assessment , produce here a conundrum … |
| 19 | This recipe gives the option of choosing the traditional sauce , or one using green peppercorns , red wine and yogurt for a lighter but very hot variation . |
| 20 | He had the enviable but potentially inconvenient gift of making each visitor feel that he was the person Montini had been waiting all his life to talk to . |
| 21 | The human population , and the livestock , of a dozen townships was moving , like an organised but somewhat undisciplined army , from the cultivated area of the crofts to the summer grazings , or shielings , on the hill , where each township , and indeed each family , had its own special area , recognised and protected by custom , although in law they all had equal rights in the whole common , and had a joint committee to regulate its use . |
| 22 | BY the time he had finished his latest enterprising but utterly unproductive search for phantoms Brian Smith was already planning the next . |
| 23 | His broadcast of 23 April was a shorter but equally powerful repeat performance of his address at the end of Barricades Week . |
| 24 | In the individual 's mental life someone else is invariably involved , as a model , as an object , as a helper , as an opponent ; and so from the very first individual psychology , in this extended but entirely justifiable sense of the words , is at the same time social psychology as well . |
| 25 | They also have a slim but slightly better chance of winning a vote for a referendum . |
| 26 | Again , Manville felt a slight sense of marvel at the processes of his own brain , his devious but quite unconscious way of running ahead of his own thoughts and frequently alighting on off-beat answers . |
| 27 | It 's a light but closely woven cloth and the weave is based No medieval cloth hangings survive . |
| 28 | Fibre/resin composite is used for the skins , which confer most of the sandwich 's rigidity ; the core is merely a light but compressively stiff intermediary that keeps the two skins apart . |
| 29 | The mass effect was of a light but most brilliant ultramarine . |
| 30 | However , a light but bitterly cold breeze was a strong reminder of the horrors which had occurred to previous travellers , in far worse conditions . |