Example sentences of "[adj] but [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manucci , who was employed in Dara Shukoh 's artillery , portrays his patron as a flawed hero , brave and generous but constantly in danger of being outwitted by his wily opponents : |
| 2 | From the start , his two definitions of culture , that of a class and that of the whole people , ‘ have to be kept distinct but always in relation ’ . |
| 3 | In evaluating the Copernican system , for example , mathematical criteria should take precedence over interpretations of Scripture , which may have become normative but only through ignorance . |
| 4 | Liverpool , Glasgow and Manchester dominate the list of fastest declining LLMAs for 1971–81 , not just in absolute but also in percentage terms , despite their large size , with London not far behind . |
| 5 | A RADIATION leak from the Sellafield nuclear plant was serious but well within safety limits , David Maclean , an environment minister , said yesterday . |
| 6 | Science and technology thus ceases to be seen as autonomous but rather as part of an interesting system in which the internalised ideological assumptions help to determine the actual experimental designs and theories of the scientists and technologists themselves . |
| 7 | She said : ‘ It was shattering but well worth while , we managed to get the message across and people were very generous . |
| 8 | Lewis had got to know him because he was a frequent visitor to Oxford , anxious to get a job in the Oxford English Faculty , and a friend not only of Tolkien but also of Nevill Coghill . |
| 9 | Fighting in October was widespread but particularly in evidence in the provinces of Battambang , Kompong Thom , Pursat , Siem Reap and Oddar Meanchey , and around Phnom Penh . |
| 10 | Hopefully , you are all erm familiar with these but just in case you are not right , let's just er run through them . |
| 11 | Red shirts clashed with blue , sometimes one of each but occasionally in bunches . |
| 12 | Now , I 'm not saying Wilko should drop these players ( actually I am about to say that but only for Hodge ! ) only that they did n't *sound* to play well ! ! |
| 13 | Exhausted but high on adrenalin , he would roam about the house unable to sleep . |
| 14 | China produced 210,000 tons of pesticides in 1990 , 96 per cent of which it claims to be highly effective but low on toxicity and residue . |
| 15 | Even of cases which do come to court , a very great many are not concerned with crimes at all but rather with people 's rights as employees , consumers , householders and members of local communities . |
| 16 | The legal merits are complex but still of importance . |
| 17 | Beautiful but hard as nails , she 'd thought then . |
| 18 | The dehydrating effects of alcohol make her thirsty but instead of water , Liz drinks a tumbler of red wine . |
| 19 | As we have seen , this is no longer done in terms of remedies available but mainly by reference to the idea of ‘ public functions ’ . |
| 20 | The risen Lord had appeared not only to women , Peter , and the rest of the Twelve but also to James ( 1 Cor. 15 : 5–7 ) . |
| 21 | Commentators have described it as a ‘ Stalinist trial ’ , not only of Pavlović but also of others who hold similar views . |
| 22 | Then we had erm , the other people next door , the woman erm , who was supposed to be a man-eater , we 'd actually looked round her house and it was ident identical to ours and we looked , we looked all the way round her house and like , she said , oh yeah , all the building 's the same but just in reverse and like , we met all the neighbours , plus the woman opposite had n't seen the flat , |
| 23 | Bentham 's success was greater but far from total . |
| 24 | Cranmer had no desire to make the Anglican Church national in doctrine and ritual but only in jurisdiction . |
| 25 | For all these reasons the apparently draconian central powers contained in the 1984 Rates Act had a surprisingly limited effect in terms not only of the numbers of authorities rate-capped but also in terms of the capping limits actually imposed . |
| 26 | The stars shone overhead , remote but always with promise of something better than the brief rush of biological existence . |
| 27 | The writer is able to measure artists not only against each other but also against standards of technical achievement . |
| 28 | It was found to be active but only in concentrations too high to be clinically acceptable . |
| 29 | Our worship is predominantly Christian but both in Assembly and class we encompass the needs of children of different faiths wherever possible . |
| 30 | Hence our debt to Giulio Argan , who in his writings always favoured movements and artists who were not only independently creative but also in step with historical change . |