Example sentences of "[adj] but [adv] [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Treasury 's task was made easier by the unrealistic but much heralded target of the National Plan , produced by the Department , to achieve an annual growth rate of 4 per cent . |
| 2 | ‘ Walter 's My Secret Life , the fictional narrative of a debauchee , constructed male desire as an illicit but physiologically based animal appetite , which drove men on to fresh excess . |
| 3 | As a scholar and theorist , Hirsch is known , apart from his unfashionable but vigorously argued advocacy of intentionalism , for his conviction that literature is not a coherent concept , and has no definable essence , and that by extension ‘ English ’ as a discipline has no absolute method . |
| 4 | One wall was filled to overflowing with medical books and against the back window overlooking the Littles ' straggled but unsuspectingly organized garden stood a large rolled-top desk and chair . |
| 5 | More surprising , and to Paviour more confounding and conciliating at the same time , was the presence of Gus Hambro , busy with a large clip-board , charting on squared paper the patch of ground to be taken up , and sketching a hurried but accurately proportioned elevation of the exposed vault of the flue . |
| 6 | The ridge is stony but easily followed south to its highest point , at 2170 feet , indicated by an Ordnance column . |
| 7 | The COB Rules generally regulate not investment business as such but only regulated business ( see page 22 above ) . |
| 8 | Mikestands are abandoned , and the lighting is minimal but superbly orchestrated theatre . |
| 9 | Mikestands are abandoned , and the lighting is minimal but superbly orchestrated theatre . |
| 10 | A basic but often misunderstood principle is that intelligence= information . |
| 11 | His voice was soft but still held authority . |
| 12 | There is a widespread but poorly substantiated belief that hysterectom yis associated with bowel problems , especially constipation and irritable bowel syndrome . |
| 13 | Standing water will also freeze in winter — an obvious but often forgotten hazard . |
| 14 | He put different shapes and sizes of enclosure inside the larger pen , and found the expected mothers readily went into an enclosed but generously bedded area , slightly larger than the space needed to stand up and lie down . |
| 15 | Only one major problem arose during the course of this extensive but meticulously planned renovation exercise . |
| 16 | A strong but politically excluded opposition is largely composed of the broadly socialist alliance led by the Awami League and the right-of-centre grouping led by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party ( BNP ) . |
| 17 | The general situation in which he finds himself is not uncommon but little published work has appeared . |
| 18 | Wednesday was a day of interminable meetings , during which the split over unemployment benefit between MacDonald and a substantial but fluctuatingly composed group of his Cabinet began to assume its final form . |
| 19 | A bailor has it against a mere bailee at pleasure even if he never himself had actual possession of the goods and only acquired title by virtue of an illegal but completely executed contract of sale . |
| 20 | This is a deep but much discussed subject and I shall not go into it here but simply assume it . |
| 21 | At this point the market began to bulge with new and lower priced devices such as the ImageMaker with its idiosyncratic optical font wheel , the Montage FR1 and the promised but rarely seen Mirus — a company in which Apple holds a 20% stake . |
| 22 | There is clearly a complex but poorly understood interaction between climatic change , vegetation dynamics , machair formation , sea-level rise , and human settlement in the Outer Hebrides that would repay further study ( Whittington and Ritchie , 1988 ) . |
| 23 | For some , the Council was no more than a prudent but much misunderstood attempt to update a few relatively minor matters . |
| 24 | If Quaid 's role seems contrived and the film betrays signs of forced editing in the abrupt , jerky resolution of an expansive but slackly focused narrative , COME SEE THE PARADISE has notable compensations : convincing performances from an unknown cast ( some of whom passed their childhood in the camps ) , a sharp sense of the sometimes bizarre and humorous manifestations of cultural miscegenation and a detailed evocation of period and locale . |
| 25 | The three main streets of Penge , Croydon Road , Anerley Road and the High Street are of ample width , and while the two former are lined with Victorian houses , many of which are now , sadly in want of repair , Beckenham Road and the High Street form a compact but well appointed shopping centre , with street markets held in the adjoining Maple Road , and until the war Penge Empire Theatre . |
| 26 | This depressing but widely held view of life in old age is the foundation upon which judgements are made about individual worth . |
| 27 | Preformationists held that there must be , in the egg , a miniature but perfectly formed adult : ‘ development ’ then consists merely of growth in size . |
| 28 | The Group 's largest and longest established operation is in oil-rich Kuwait , a small but strategically placed country at the top of what used to be known as the Persian gulf — now politically just referred to as the gulf . |
| 29 | Marlon Brando had a small but perfectly formed part as the detective who leaves town after being beaten up by three upstanding racist citizens . |
| 30 | It is the essential but usually overlooked fact that in any psychophysical experiment when , for example , subjects are asked whether or not they perceive a stimulus , their responses , verbal or otherwise , can not be relied on as accurate accounts of their conscious experiences . |