Example sentences of "[adj] but in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , you are too young to be aware of this but in the past there was held to be a linkage between so-called ‘ self-abuse ’ and the sebaceous rigours of your time of life . |
| 2 | ‘ It was really good and really exciting but in a way it was also like a flashback to 1983 or something , because I still wanted to do completely different songs to everyone else ! |
| 3 | They were brown but in the winter they turn white . |
| 4 | The stress σ is applied to spring E 1 and dashpot η 3 ; it is also shared by E 2 and η 2 but in a manner which varies with time . |
| 5 | The track felt soft and slithery but in the dark she could n't see what it was she was stepping on . |
| 6 | ‘ At 2–0 I thought it was going to be easy but in the end it was n't easy at all , ’ admitted Charlton in his after-match press conference . |
| 7 | Brian Stewart , chief executive of Scottish and Newcastle , said the Budget was wide-ranging but in the context of his own industry , the Chancellor 's decision to raise excise duty on beer flew in the face of commercial reality . |
| 8 | Maybe you were neither of these but in the pocey extension to the left as you go in where all the posers and knobs hang out ( even though it 's got a really good 6ft TV there ) … |
| 9 | The large figure of Athena is drawn in a modification of black-figure but in a style that could well be Euthymides 's . |
| 10 | ‘ Quite well , thank you , ’ was her polite but in no sense cheerful answer . |
| 11 | And just back to football , the South Midland premier division ; Thame United retain their lead at the top of the table with a narrow but in the end , comfortable victory at Langford this afternoon . |
| 12 | So you can do that but in the main we try not to have any loose ends on er an assignment . |
| 13 | A year ago , Selina 's two-hour session of candlelit fund-raising would have gained her nothing more than a clout round the ear ( I 'd have done it nice , mind you , not in the restaurant or anything like that but in the Fiasco or back at the sock ) . |
| 14 | As the depth is obviously restricted this form of extraction would take place over a wider area than normal but in a district like this where the overburden is thin this is no real hardship . |
| 15 | He stood breathing heavily and holding his arm ; wounded but in no pain . |
| 16 | The UK 's position in the mid 1960s provides a good example since she tried to avoid a change in her par value for as long as possible but in the end was forced to devalue because of increasing capital outflows . |
| 17 | Their activities ranged throughout the day and night and reached a peak of basically making a noise nuisance of themselves , there were other troubles which I will mention later , in which they would be playing two or three different sound systems , and at its worst , a full drum set in the early hours of the morning , obviously keeping their near neighbours not only awake but in a state of some anxiety . |
| 18 | there are some of them that are very useful but in the majority of cases if the human is functioning well it 's producing it 's own steroids . |
| 19 | Tavett had been shaky but in the end unmoved : he added nothing and changed nothing of what he had said on Saturday . |
| 20 | The EAT did not look at the offer of new terms in the abstract but in the light of the company 's financial difficulties . |
| 21 | The difference is that Orton 's pastiche is comic but in a way which interrogates rather than presupposes the norm . |
| 22 | Where else could an entity composed of blended matter and immaterium really have been conceived and forged but in the Eye ? |
| 23 | He did so in order that the just requirement set out in God 's law might be fulfilled in us who live our lives not after the principle of self-effort but in the power of the Spirit . |
| 24 | The effects in France may be even worse but in the context of a buoyant post-1992 European economy , and technical developments in ferry design , it seems likely that the ferry industry will be able to compete effectively for both passenger and freight traffic in an expanding market . |
| 25 | Turkey do n't have much at the back or up front but in the middle of the park they are very comfortable with the ball and if England negate them there it will be enough to win . |
| 26 | We have improved the standard of living but in the process forgotten how to live . |
| 27 | The Government found itself not in a majority of 87 but in a minority of 92 . |
| 28 | By contrast Frances Spalding 's final chapter , ‘ The Modern Face ’ , is surprisingly tentative for such an experienced writer : she obviously contemplates deserting the more endangered of Bloomsbury species the rank amateur as opposed to the merely amateurish but in the end mounts a token defence , and so damns them with faint art history . |
| 29 | This may succeed for a week or two but in the end is bound to be as banal as the preacher 's brain , returning with monotony to well worn paths and well worked passages . |
| 30 | I could n't be certain but in the hubbub that followed ( shrieked squeaks and ‘ hahas ’ from the audience ) I thought I heard a definite mechanical ‘ click ’ , but when the stage lights came up again , nothing had happened . |