Example sentences of "[adj] but [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing much different inside , either ; still looks and smells the same : polished parquet flooring , sumptuous but fading old rugs , assorted mostly very old furniture , lots of big houseplants on the floor and time-dulled landscapes and portraits on the wood-panelled walls . |
| 2 | Solid and worthy but lacking memorable tunes . |
| 3 | THE MOTHER of a five-week-old girl was critically ill but improving last night after undergoing a liver transplant made possible by a television appeal . |
| 4 | The ride is firm but damping first class as undulations and bumps are swallowed up with ease . |
| 5 | While he shared the fears that the Americans might be tempted to try to take advantage of their current but waning nuclear lead , he believed that in the longer term the prospects might improve . |
| 6 | In fact , both length and quality appear in these ( and other ) examples to operate as independent but intersecting phonological processes , and both dimensions are apparently of considerable sociolinguistic significance . |
| 7 | 18th century mansion house designed by Playfair , modernised but retaining rich character and its own friendly ghost . |