Example sentences of "[adj] but [adv] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They also have a slim but slightly better chance of winning a vote for a referendum . |
| 2 | The filopodia pull the sheet right across the cavity until it makes contact with the other side where it meets and fuses with another but much smaller invagination which is the future mouth . |
| 3 | Similar but slightly larger amounts are allocated in the same way for secondary pupils . |
| 4 | Needing 361 to avoid the follow-on , England find themselves in a similar but even tougher position than in the first Test at Calcutta where they lost by eight wickets . |
| 5 | Dr Dan Wright , research officer , says : ‘ Our findings contrast very much with a similar but much smaller study in the US which showed that almost 100 per cent of the study remembered exactly what they were doing when Kennedy was killed . ’ |
| 6 | A thousand years ago , humans used a similar but much cruder system which relied on the strongest part of the pattern , a band of polarised light arcing the sky . |
| 7 | A similar but apparently stronger effect is seen in children hospitalised with measles , with a reduction of 66% , although this was not significantly different from the 30% seen in developing country community settings . |
| 8 | The currently fashionable and oft repeated litany is that although the world air transport industry is presently going through a fundamental and painful period of change , this will ultimately lead to a new and improved deployment of resources , through the creation of far fewer but infinitely larger air carriers . |
| 9 | Proceedings are drawn to an equally raucous but somewhat frothier close by Sheffield 's youngest recording band , the Various Vegetables . |
| 10 | So I think erm Hertfordshire 's voice should be heard and however , my resolution asks us to look at the possibility of opposing not only the building of terminal five but all further airport expansion in the South East be it at Heathrow , Stansted , Gatwick or Luton . |
| 11 | A clear example of an abandoned incised meander occurs near Redbrook and a less spectacular but probably younger example near St Briavels ( Miller , 1935 ) . |
| 12 | Occasional experiments with geometric patterns in '71 , '72 but mainly louder checks until tartan ( restricted usually to trousers ) in early '72 . |
| 13 | In its first full financial year , RBIC made a profit of more than £4 million but even better results are promised . |