Example sentences of "[adj] but [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a primitive but thoroughly respectable bit of computing . |
| 2 | He had successfully led the School from the dark days of war , through a time of austerity thereafter , and on to the easier but still challenging years of the 1950s . |
| 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 | For a given corpus size , if one uses coarser classification then more reliable but less precise predictions are obtained . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A favourite but much over-worked vehicle for public relations is the information service or bureau for a manufacturer . |
| 10 | FIRST Millwall won the war — then they got round to winning this brutal but utterly compelling match at The Den . |
| 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 MacSharry proposals , if implemented in anything like their current form , would decimate Scottish agriculture because Scottish farms are generally well above the average size of farms in the EC and in the rest of the United Kingdom , for historical but mainly geographical reasons . |
| 16 | The 1970s and 1980s have seen a series of fundamental economic problems beset not only British but also international capitalism . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | At -30°C up to 90% of their body water became ice , which formed mainly in intercellular spaces , resulting in high but apparently non-lethal concentrations of solutes within the cells . |
| 19 | Out takes place at an unspecified time several decades after the unexplained but presumably cataclysmic event known as the ‘ displacement ’ . |
| 20 | Realising that this was an emergency and almost certainly to do with Mrs Rafferty 's continual but nowadays abortive pregnancies , Liza said quickly , ‘ I 'll ring the hospital for an ambulance . |
| 21 | And what would be the fate of these creatures once they were sold to well-meaning but probably ignorant people ? |
| 22 | 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 … |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The film was black at first then it turned a sort of brownish colour , getting lighter but still weird colours , browny yellow , till we could see it was water , a river or something , and its bank . |
| 25 | The eighteenth-century practice of harsh but selective punishment was condemned as barbaric , and was replaced with an attempt to impose lighter but more certain penalties . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | BY the time he had finished his latest enterprising but utterly unproductive search for phantoms Brian Smith was already planning the next . |
| 29 | He has the advantage of having devised a series of self-contained but effectively linked novels , full of properly casual back-references , in which he can show his hero changing with circumstances from the exuberance of a young lieutenant , to whom personal courage , seamanlike skills and informed opportunism have brought reputation and wealth , to a middle-aged man still exuberant but oppressed with financial cares and by the continual malice of personal enemies . |
| 30 | His broadcast of 23 April was a shorter but equally powerful repeat performance of his address at the end of Barricades Week . |