Example sentences of "[adj] but [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Losers will be those groups whose incomes rise less rapidly than the general price level : examples include workers who are not represented by unions or who are only weakly unionised but face strong employer resistance to wage claims . |
| 2 | The stimuli which the cell receives from the matrix can then initiate changes in gene expression with temporally related changes in cell structure which result directly from the same signals or are determined by concomitant but separate cell-matrix interaction . |
| 3 | In contrast with patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis , and to HIV-infected patients in general , increasing age was protective in AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis ; this paradoxical effect is unexplained but has wide confidence limits and a type I error ( of small numbers ) can not be absolutely excluded . |
| 4 | Nothing much different inside , either ; still looks and smells the same : polished parquet flooring , sumptuous but fading old rugs , assorted mostly very old furniture , lots of big houseplants on the floor and time-dulled landscapes and portraits on the wood-panelled walls . |
| 5 | He was just forty-five but looked twenty years older . |
| 6 | Books like these contain much music which is transitory but include insufficient hymnody from the traditional repertoire . |
| 7 | Looking at what went wrong with the ERM and what should be done about it , both conclude that the system is fundamentally sound but needs better management . |
| 8 | She is chocolate-brown but has fair-coloured highlights ( the poodle was champagne-colour ) , and you 'll also see she has a white beard and a tiny dab of white on one of her back paws . |
| 9 | The problem is compounded where the codes in contact themselves are not only similar but have diffuse norms , so that the boundary between them is not always clear either to the linguist or to community members . |
| 10 | The modules in each medical college are similar but utilise local strengths to best advantage . |
| 11 | I do n't really see that there 's such a dividing line , because I think if you 're a housewife and you have a beautiful milk jug , which is perhaps very simple but has lovely lines to it , I think even if it 's only subconsciously you get more pleasure out of using that than you would a rather cracked , grubby , plastic jug . |
| 12 | Solid and worthy but lacking memorable tunes . |
| 13 | Officials admit that the administration response was muddled but blame poor intelligence-gathering in Panama . |
| 14 | It 's a semi-permanent , non-ammonia , non-peroxide colouring solution that looks perfectly natural but adds beautiful shine , gloss and vibrancy . |
| 15 | Jessica not only leaves the house unguarded but takes some money as well , saying in line 34 of Act two scene six ‘ Here , catch this casket ’ and then in line 50 ‘ with some more ducats ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ He left SIS back in sixty-two but kept some contact with the service for at least a decade afterwards . ’ |
| 17 | THE MOTHER of a five-week-old girl was critically ill but improving last night after undergoing a liver transplant made possible by a television appeal . |
| 18 | Presteigne ( the modern spelling ) had a railway connection , completed in 1875 but planned some years earlier ( see below ) , which lasted right up till Dr Beeching 's Axe . |
| 19 | The lace-like type that come within these groups are very slow in growing ; one we have , which is reputed to date back to the early '20s if not beyond , stands less than five foot tall but measures eight foot across . |
| 20 | Although the present investigation did not reveal more platelet activating factor in colonic mucosa in patients with Crohn 's disease in remission than in controls , this hypothesis could be possible but needs further investigations . |
| 21 | A tiny Leith Marine Stokers ' Union was formed in July 1893 but disappeared three years later " on grounds of scarcity of members " . |
| 22 | The area feels firm but has irregular nodules which can be painful to touch . |
| 23 | The ride is firm but damping first class as undulations and bumps are swallowed up with ease . |
| 24 | It got phased out so that the Ministry did n't pay anything at all but to get this grant you had to keep tremendous records copies of invoices and you had to get er and the bus grant and the , the permission from them . |
| 25 | Yesterday Sir Nicholas , wearing tam o'shanter and tartan , denied he was a racist but provoked further outrage by attacking Lord Whitelaw . |
| 26 | At first , they were not married but had two sons . |
| 27 | Firstly , while it may be true that individual clients can and do terminate contracts frequently , they do this to move from one company to another : every year each company loses existing but gains new customers . |
| 28 | A representative of the illegal but tolerated Moslem Brotherhood said on June 9 that although the Brotherhood did not support political assassinations " the government and the media " shared responsibility for Fudah 's death since they had given space to " writers dedicated to attacking Islam " . |
| 29 | Janet Walters , an Oxford history graduate who had previously served as a full-time tutor in Northamptonshire in 1943–45 , arrived in August 1952 but resigned two years later : she went on to a successful career in adult education , eventually retiring as principal of Hillcroft College , Surbiton , in 1982 . |
| 30 | He does n't react to the negative but takes positive steps to be successful . |