Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] but [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the context of civil proceedings , international judicial assistance is primarily concerned with the service of documents , ‘ process ’ of one sort or another but also extrajudicial documents of significance , and the taking of evidence ; post-trial assistance , in the form of the enforcement of judgments and orders , is traditionally treated as a ( major ) topic in its own right . |
| 2 | As a result the system can be used in large rooms , or long but relatively narrow rooms , but conversely is ill-suited for use across the narrow dimension of most rooms , which can work well with many other transducers . |
| 3 | There are other diagnostic tests for hyponymy which are either discriminatory but insufficiently general , or general but insufficiently discriminatory . |
| 4 | In that marriage she was easily the dominant partner and Joe let her be partly because it is n't in his nature to be pushy or dominant but mainly due to the fact his father bullied his mother , as we are told and he is afraid of him doing this as well and so fails to protect Pip and tolerates Mrs Joe 's dominant character . |
| 5 | These deep colours have an oppressiveness which is neither cloying nor mournful but richly potent . |
| 6 | ‘ Others , including myself , believe that non-punitive but truly compensatory damages awarded by the courts of the United Kingdom are preferable to the exorbitance of emotionally-driven jury awards , ’ he said . |
| 7 | The rhythm section provided a perfect cushion for the soloists , springy and supportive but never obtrusive . |
| 8 | And interesting but only interesting novels could be taken to the post office for distribution to the armed forces . |
| 9 | ‘ What , are you there ? ’ said the voice below , full and clear but very low . |
| 10 | The weather : cloudy with light rain tonight , but becoming dry and clear later , lowest temperatures are expected to reach around 8x celsius , that 's 46x fahrenheit , and tomorrow should be sunny and windy but fairly cool . |
| 11 | It is raining at the moment and it 's gon na be wet and windy but quite mild for the rest of the day . |
| 12 | Well I have to say that much of the impact of this story depends upon your being able to see and think of Boy as beautiful , admirable and even adorable in the true senses of those difficult and dangerous but nonetheless precious and necessary words ; I suggest therefore that you amend my descriptions of Boy and his lover — but I anticipate myself , that was not to be for several weeks yet ; that ‘ Great Romance of Our Times ’ , as it became known amongst us , had not yet begun , its theme tune had not yet been composed on Gary 's piano , its scenario was not yet subject of our daily gossip and speculation , we were not yet auditioning for a place in the credits — The Friend , The Admirer , Blonde Man in Bar , Second Guest at Dinner Party . |
| 13 | Following several years of development work and unsuccessful but nevertheless promising trials in late 1905 and early 1906 , he won the support of John ( later first Earl ) Jellicoe , ( Sir ) Percy Scott , and Sir John ( later first Baron ) Fisher [ qq.v. ] , which resulted in the establishment of an agreement to perfect the civilian inventor 's ideas for a mechanical system of using observed ranges and bearings to calculate firing solutions for naval artillery that would take account of the relative motion of the firing ship and target . |
| 14 | Microfiche Like microfilm , this is compact , easily stored and accessible but more difficult to produce than paper . |
| 15 | She was quiet and serious but very passionate underneath , Aunt Kit says , rather like Emily Brontë . |
| 16 | His wife had been comparatively lucky , thrown into the road and bruised but otherwise unhurt . |
| 17 | The vector x is real and non-null but otherwise arbitrary . |
| 18 | The bridge carries the old road between Hawes and Kirkby Stephen , superseded in 1825 by the valley road and now grass-grown and neglected but still traceable down to the road near Outhgill if transport is waiting there . |
| 19 | It is n't hard to see here , once again , Pound 's baffled exasperation that , instead of setting up shop as maître d'école , ‘ the very learned British Museum assistant ’ should resolutely duck back into doing such a worthy and humane but undoubtedly over-modest activity as editing such of the letters of his old friend Hewlett as could not conceivably give offence . |
| 20 | In Egypt native and Persian kings attracted not only Greek and Carian but also Jewish mercenaries . |
| 21 | Stephen Spender divides writers into ‘ contemporaries ’ and ‘ moderns ’ ( 1962:555 ) ; Malcolm Bradbury distinguishes between the main current of fiction and peripheral but nevertheless important work by people like Samuel Beckett , Malcolm Lowry , William Golding , and Lawrence Durrell ( 1973 ) ; and Iris Murdoch draws a distinction between the ‘ journalistic ’ and the ‘ crystalline ’ which delineates similar categories . |
| 22 | Organisation is divided into the representational level , which employs symbols to carry meaning , and the automatic level , where behaviour is highly organised and integrated but less susceptible to volun-tary control . |
| 23 | The result is slick and stylish but somehow muted |
| 24 | It was Robert who padded solemnly across the little bridge , waded into the pond to the culvert 's egress , and wrenched the grating from its mouth , setting free a rush of mud and water from which he lifted out , first , Nicandra 's dog ( exhausted and bleeding but quite ready to bite ) , then Lally , every stitch she wore soaked and clinging close as a swimsuit to her solid child-size body . |
| 25 | Carrie was hot and tired but wonderfully happy . |
| 26 | Her reflection , pale and tired but quite solid looking , appeared before her in a perfectly normal manner . |
| 27 | Others before Frank Kermode , in his suave and erudite but ultimately acidulous The Classic ( New York , 1975 ) , had protested that as a framework inside which real political decisions and actions could be taken , Eliot 's Virgilian-Dantesque perspective was not just useless but dangerous . |
| 28 | On the inside , as promised , was a label , printed black on gold , scratched and ink-stained but clearly legible . |
| 29 | On the face of the planet there lies , assembled into one immense and complicated but always inter-connected body , a quantity of some 329 million cubic miles of water — the sea . |
| 30 | For example , most elderly people who are married have always lived only with their spouse , and small but fairly constant proportions have always lived in residential institutions of one kind or another ( Wall , 1984 ) . |