Example sentences of "[adj] but [adv] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Churchill himself was interested not only in this but also in the wider implications of nuclear developments in the 1950s . |
| 2 | Without this first step there is no beginning , and every subsequent step in the search takes one further but always in the same direction . |
| 3 | She 'd seen enough from the taxi to tell that every house , cottage , shop and inn was simply full of character , each different but still in the traditional Cotswold style she was beginning to recognise . |
| 4 | In summer the gardens would have looked colourful and pretty but somehow in the depths of the Provençal winter they appeared melancholy . |
| 5 | A repertoire of ornament of a vernacular baroque character is applied with varying degrees of restraint , while the interiors , usually arranged with the hall and saloon across the centre and the staircase to one side , are enriched with fine joinery and plaster-work but little in the way of spatial incident . |
| 6 | the Chi the Chinese empire is , is actually growing but possibly in the sense that within Chinese territory marginal land that has n't previously been used for agriculture is being brought into use . |
| 7 | But the old Gamoroi , the ‘ land-holders ’ , at Syracuse kept up their Dorian loyalties , occasionally sending numerically small but often in the event significant contributions to Sparta in her struggles at home in the fifth and fourth centuries ( see too p. 187 for the way the favour was returned ) . |
| 8 | So important is this factor in shaping the evolution of man that Freud , in a number of places in his works , 9 but principally in a footnote to Civilization and its Discontents , comments at length on the way in which the adoption of an erect posture in man produced what he termed an ‘ organic repression ’ which paved the way for civilization . |
| 9 | As you know I 've er been holding a number of er small meetings with staff er and one of the questions I 've been asking is whether or not there has been a need for the building presentation that we 've done for a couple of years er and generally there was the view expressed that yes it was desirable but perhaps in a different format . |
| 10 | But there is the mar there is considerable potential for flexibility in the policy and that would be determined my local planning authorities in the light of P P G seven but also in the light of er local circumstances and conditions which is quite right and proper . |
| 11 | Sterling issues expanded dramatically in the 1980s but increasingly in the form of eurosterling bonds and Table 3.8 shows the important share that such bonds now have in the total sterling bond market . |
| 12 | Such problems have led Neiss ( 1988 ) to conclude that the inverted-U relationship is probably true but only in the psychologically trivial sense that performance is impaired when the subject is either sleepy or facing an imminent external threat . |