Example sentences of "[adj] but [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shearman recalled that , at first , discussion with Hickson was unpromising but eventually the appointment of Pateman to the post , vacant from 1928 , was confirmed . |
| 2 | the advances made have been very exciting but not every knitter wants to go too ‘ high tec ’ . |
| 3 | Underlining this was not only a sense of what was proper but also a sense of what was politically and socially wise . |
| 4 | The following four German folktales relating to this theme , as collected by the Grimm brothers in the nineteenth century , are typical but only a fraction of the many variants known . |
| 5 | In no manner does the birth of this child put the other out of my mind nor can I accept he is a substitute but rather a reminder as if God wished to show me what I have lost and reprimand me for my carelessness . |
| 6 | On Jan. 2 units of the OMON or " Black Berets " , a paramilitary police force formed by the USSR Interior Ministry in 1987 , seized Riga 's main press building , recently nationalized but previously the property of the pro-Moscow Latvian Communist Party ( CP ) . |
| 7 | Sometimes the plug is easily visible but normally a probe is used to detect its presence in the vagina . |
| 8 | The Tsar 's authority remained unlimited but almost every area of public life was affected , and in preparing the reforms the government slackened censorship and gave unprecedented opportunity for different sections of society to air their grievances . |
| 9 | ‘ The manager must be flexible but consistent , culturally diverse but recognisably an individual with his own identity . |
| 10 | The disk is round , to slightly pentagonal , diameter up to 13 mm ; covered by trifid spinelets , rarely the spinelets may be more elaborate but often the crown is indistinct and the spinelets appear to be rugose . |
| 11 | But yeah , it 's alright , it 's okay but not a lot 's going on , really , I have n't been in any activities for ages . |
| 12 | Begbroke seemed ideal but then the vicar started laying down the law . |
| 13 | This , for example , is why he believed Hobbes ( and himself ) to be an authoritarian but not an absolutist . |
| 14 | In Manchester , as in Scotland , it was a good night for Labour but overall the result was still devastating . |
| 15 | He seemed to have kicked his heroin addiction and given up his unorthodox lifestyle three years ago when he married Becky Few-Brown but soon the marriage broke down . |
| 16 | Vigorously opposed by a number of clubs the IRFU has stood firm but ironically the flow of foreigners has continued , albeit in a different direction . |
| 17 | Its personal computer network protocol support is good but not the equal of Unix at its best . |
| 18 | If you are going to take notes , let the candidate know at this stage , explain that you do it for all the candidates , and that they are nothing sinister but simply a memory aid . |
| 19 | The law relating to covenants is quite complex but basically a covenant is a legally-binding document by which you transfer some of your income to a charity for a stated period . |
| 20 | The central development of courses and units will assist this process , as not only will HN unit exemplars be made widely available but also the experience and staff development received by NDOs and Unit Writers at SCOTVEC will be extremely valuable and will be put to good use by their respective colleges . |
| 21 | They are not inaccessible but quite the reverse , and they have their original working use still . ’ |
| 22 | The shift in winds as the international economy moved from the extravagant eighties to the uncharted nineties has been evident for sometime but only the master helmsman could have kept afloat until now . |
| 23 | In other words , at the factor prices ruling , the demand for factors is such that the constraint on capital is binding but not the constraint on labour ( we do not go into the dynamic adjustment process by which this rationed equilibrium has been reached ) . |
| 24 | Information obtained retrospectively from case notes is unreliable but generally the correspondence to be found in case notes showed the clinician 's reason for referring a patient and gave reliable clues to the prediction of the result . |
| 25 | The establishment is open but once a week at present and is then usually manned by a civilian worker . |
| 26 | ‘ I was thinking more of Pretty In Pink , but I really like the idea of music in films , where the song 's less incidental but more a part of the film . |
| 27 | I know it 's commonsense but unfortunately a lot of people still tend to leave these er objects lying about in easy reach of the young child , okay ? |
| 28 | This ‘ newness ’ , which is not really new but more an expansion of the rigid barriers of the individual self so that we see something as if we were not ourselves , is , I believe , one of the attributes of authentic , pleasurable art . |
| 29 | As Maggie turns , I catch a flash of eye , fairy blue but just a bit milky . |
| 30 | The term ‘ an efficient farm ’ has defied description from many authorities but from this survey it appeared that it was not a farm or a system or an enterprise that was efficient but rather the man who ran it . |