Example sentences of "[adj] but [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He brings a world-weariness way beyond his years to his electric portrait of Morrissey-style bedroom star , painfully shy in public but a demon in his own private universe . |
| 2 | Ellis and Shepherd ( 1974 ) first drew attention to this but a number of experiments by Young and his colleagues have failed to show any influence of age of acquisition of words on dichotic listening ( Young and Ellis , 1980 ) or tachistoscopic hemifield asymmetry ( Ellis and Young , 1977 ; Young and Bion , 1980b ) even when it is the age at which words are first read rather than heard that is under investigation ( Young , Bion and Ellis , 1982 ) . |
| 3 | Court permission has been granted to sell the property and advice is being sought as to the best way to approach this but the state of the building and the effects of the economic situation do not make for easy decisions . |
| 4 | Court permission has been granted to sell the property and advice is being sought as to the best way to approach this but the state of the building and the effects of the economic situation do not make for easy decisions . |
| 5 | Certainly , an attack on southern planning models , national legislation , and perhaps even bureaucratisation was implicit in all of this but the issue of personal culpability clouded and discredited these important points . |
| 6 | I am sorry to worry you over this but the result of the present system is that John Merer and I are barely on speaking terms . |
| 7 | I would need to check with the erm er computer manager you know which fields are takeable , you know how , I do n't know if you know computer re how computer records are stored but every piece of information like erm the admission figure , the title , the distributor will be a field and I presume if er any information like the time is in a separate field then you would be able to have a report by fields . |
| 8 | 1357 , was not a Franciscan but a Carmelite of the Whitefriary , and his connection with Stamford is purely related to the university legend . |
| 9 | It was seen as a one-off but the rest of the band recognised Solowka 's zeal . |
| 10 | Dobry 's view that ‘ it is not so much the system which is wrong but the way in which it is used ’ was endorsed , and his Final Report was commended to students of our planning system as an invaluable compendium of information about the working of the existing development control process , and to local authorities and developers as a source of advice on the best way to operate within it . |
| 11 | In our case the origin of the myofibroblasts is not clear but the presence of transitional forms of smooth muscle cells strongly suggests an origin from such cells rather than extension of pericrypt cells or infiltration of circulating blood cells . |
| 12 | And they use words like ‘ potto ’ , ‘ cellaro ’ , and ‘ brosha ’ — which are neither Italian nor English but a combination of the two . |
| 13 | His count , apparently , was sufficiently high but the motility in this , and subsequent samples , was disappointingly low . |
| 14 | Its popularity is still high but the quality of the mass-produced , growth-promoted product of today is far below the standard of the succulent farmhouse bacon of the past . |
| 15 | Squid also inhabit deep water where the problem is not reflected light but the absence of light . |
| 16 | The daughter opens and closes the play on a swing , her hair free but a soundtrack of synthesised chords and foundry clatter emphasising this is no Fragonard . |
| 17 | The mine is to become operational by 1985 but the cost of producing the coal in conditions where the hydraulic systems of the excavators freeze and burst in the intense cold is such that only by CPE ( Centrally Planned Economy ) economics would the project be viable . |
| 18 | It is a messy , complicated business dating back to 1985 but the essence of the charge is : |
| 19 | ‘ Mrs Henry Cox ’ , too busy for some but a favourite with many for over a century |
| 20 | By the mid 1960s , not only was this area experiencing acidities less than pH 4.0 but the area of acid precipitation with values below pH 4.5 had expanded to include most of East and West Germany , northern France , eastern England and southern Scandinavia . |
| 21 | The skeletal width of the shoulders is hereditary but an illusion of breadth can be created by fully developing the shoulder muscles . |
| 22 | Two of the dressing rooms stood empty but the door to Wardrobe had been closed . |
| 23 | It marks not the dying of something old but the birth of something new . |
| 24 | One of the things that can emerge is a great deal of mutual help , so that there is not just one group of people giving out to another but a group of people reaching out to one another . |
| 25 | The public is entitled to use the highway for passage and repassage from one place to another but the extent to which this gives an unrestricted right to hold a moving demonstration on the highway is doubtful . |
| 26 | Like Nicotiana langsdorfii , the flowers are pretty and intriguing but the plant as a whole is not showy in our climate , making too much stem and leaf . |
| 27 | The region 's gross domestic product ( GDP ) had shown a growth rate of 6 per cent in 1991 but the figure for 1992 was expected to be only 5.7 per cent . |
| 28 | At its simplest , sociobiology is arguing , then , that the central drive affecting individual and social behaviour is not the preservation of the individual but the maximisation of the individual 's genes into future generations . |
| 29 | The Axminster agreement is quite straightforward but the link with their UK sales operation is not so easy to understand . |
| 30 | The atmosphere was heavy , oppressive , the smell not immediately identifiable but a combination of human and engine smells , while the only sounds were a soft moaning from a woman towards the front of the plane and the voice of a man trying to reassure someone . |