Example sentences of "[adj] but [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wonder whether , if Labour Members present were Members not of this but of a similar Parliament in an eastern European country or in Russia , they would be taking this attitude . |
| 2 | It is beautifully detailed but in a musical rather than analytical sense , offering a degree of presence which communicates real emotion where the programme offers it . |
| 3 | A word spelt like another but with a different meaning , eg bow in a bow and arrow and tie one 's hair with a bow . |
| 4 | The Harlequin man pursed his lips and sucked in his cheeks not in a cadaverous but in a speculative , mischievous style which nevertheless bespoke some fatal intent . |
| 5 | The internal classification of the genus is founded on the arrangements of the nowers : heads of only fertile flowers for one entomophilous section ; similar but with a distal zone of nectariferous ones in another ; the distal ones are fertile and separated from the proximal staminodal ones by a zone of nectariferous ones in a third . |
| 6 | It was getting dark but in a beautiful silvery still way . |
| 7 | If there is such a thing as a simulation in the same relation to suffering as imagination to perception , it is in response not to a real but to a fictitious situation ; it is the emotion of the actor revelling in the part of a tragic hero . |
| 8 | First came the Class 56 , superficially similar to the Class 47 but with a maximum speed of 80mph and no facility for train heating . |
| 9 | She may have to find her young not from a dozen but from a million . |
| 10 | Often the men marry girls not only younger but of a higher social class than their own in Sylhet . |
| 11 | The language of the Sonata No. 3 is Schoenbergian but on a larger scale than anything Schoenberg wrote for solo piano : Krenek has a more obvious strain of Viennese lyricism , which serves him through all his style changes . |
| 12 | According to Yves St Laurent , ‘ the face of winter 1990 is monochrome and soft but with a prominent mouth ’ . |
| 13 | His voice was soft but with a hard mechanical edge like a speak-your-weight machine , and he said ‘ men ’ like his friends said ‘ General ’ . |
| 14 | Sepulveda justified the enslavement of the Indians on the grounds that they were the natural slaves mentioned in Book I of Aristotle 's Politics ; the Dominican Friar Las Casas admitted the frailty of the Indians but argued that they were all the more children of God owing to their very lack of capacity and skill , which still implies a sort of sub-humanity but of a different kind . |
| 15 | At Pasalar , the evidence is strongly in favour of subtropical forest , probably evergreen but with a pronounced dry season , and current work on the microwear of the Pasalar specimens , which are the oldest ones known to have thick enamel , indicates a diet of small hard objects , probably fruits . |
| 16 | While Arbuthnot was tactful and exceedingly good-natured , Harriett was equally discreet but with a sharper mind . |
| 17 | I would have thought that a standard missile would have ensured that a plane it brought down would not have struck the sea with its fuselage relatively intact but in a thousand pieces . |
| 18 | In the early seventies the court ( and the bazaar ) buzzed with stories that the Shah had fallen in love , not with a European but with a nineteen-year-old Iranian girl with dyed blond hair . |
| 19 | ‘ I use two amps on stage , switching between the two : a Marshall , which is set quite low but with a good , meaty kind of sound , and a reissue Fender blackface Twin Reverb set up with a cleaner sound and vibrato if I want it . |
| 20 | The exterior is plain and undistinguished but with a tall , elegant tower . |
| 21 | There had been bad and costly muddles in the early days of the war ; agriculture had been disrupted by the number of peasants called to the colours , and eventually some had had to be returned to the fields ; the great Renault motor works was closed down , all but for a small shop making stretchers — motor vehicles evidently being considered a luxury with little application to the war effort . |
| 22 | The initial police response was good but after a few days I could see they were getting swamped with other cases and I had to do something . |
| 23 | Jay liked her eyebrows , straight and black but with a decided curve at the end . |
| 24 | The illustrations , like those he subsequently did for Reginald Arkell 's Old Herbaceous ( 1950 ) are printed not in black but in a softer sage green . |
| 25 | It was indeed a bit like an LTP effect , though generated not by the artificial injection of current but by a behavioural experience . |
| 26 | Then night falls and , by the light of the moon , you can just make out shapes and outlines — the scene is still beautiful but in a calmer and less vibrant way . |
| 27 | ‘ For example , in a utility company engineering will be important but in a financial services business computers play a much more vital role and so someone from the IT department will be essential . ’ |
| 28 | The Cassel influence soon disappeared and by 1927 the type was large , long and heavy but with a certain finesse and nobility . |
| 29 | One thousand buildings have been constructed to these standards at costs of one per cent more but with a resulting 40 per cent cut in heating bills . |
| 30 | The Briton would presumably have also been issued with a name-badge but with a British horror of self-advertisement had taken it off the moment he could . |