Example sentences of "[adj] but the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | [ Liverpool 's ] great stations — Lime Street , the Central and the Exchange — are centres of bustling life , of passengers coming and going ; and scarcely a day passes without the reminder that the city by the Mersey is not only English but the Continental portal to the New World . |
| 2 | ‘ The fees involved are n't very high but the actual money involved in modifying the car is . ’ |
| 3 | Chronic sulphasalazine treatment does not seem to be nephrotoxic but the systemic absorption of 5-ASA from sulphasalazine is relatively low . |
| 4 | MacQuillan 's was brown but the other man 's … |
| 5 | The colliding conversations are neatly synchronised but the main problem is that each part needs to convey a sense of tough experience with some firm characterisation which the self-conscious and rather tense cast could n't find in this patchy production . |
| 6 | Good boy keep working darling but the only problem with it , that the wheels do n't go round do they ? |
| 7 | Some displays were three-years old but the general feeling was never again . |
| 8 | This gave the sociology of knowledge a specific task in studying the sociological features on which systems of knowledge were dependent but the critical edge and the proposition of relationism had disappeared . |
| 9 | At Arles nearby the screen wall is not in such good condition ; the design is similar but the Corinthian Order is used instead of Doric ( PLATE 26 ) . |
| 10 | Frivolous frou-frou feathers , spikey mules and a high hairstyle are crucial but the main accessory is attitude — if you 're going to wear it , flaunt it . |
| 11 | In the experience of ACET staff and volunteers , practical care in the home not only benefits the HIV infected individual but the whole family , which can often mean three generations . |
| 12 | The type of notes you make are personal but the important point is that you can follow them with only a glance . |
| 13 | What we have in both the approaches is an ‘ essentialist ’ view of sexuality ; sex conceptualised as an overpowering force in the individual that shapes not only the personal but the social life as well . |
| 14 | The Dee at Chester was fishable but the only action was from 40 cormorants who have taken up residence above the weir . |
| 15 | Conversion at common law may be committed in so many different ways that any comprehensive definition is probably impossible but the connecting thread running through the cases seems to be that the wrong is committed by a dealing with the goods of a person which constitutes an unjustifiable denial of his rights in them or the assertion of rights inconsistent therewith . |
| 16 | It still looked easy but the slow progress of the parties ahead showed it was not . |
| 17 | It is not only the Children Act which is under-funded but the entire spectrum of Local Government and the National Health Services . |
| 18 | It is also accepted that the presence of risk factors may affect the length of treatment required to effect healing but the optimal duration of treatment in the presence of specific risk factors has never been investigated . |
| 19 | The miracles express both the belief in a God who reaches out and ‘ touches ’ — a God who can heal — and also the fact that not only healing but the whole message of Jesus is for all people . |
| 20 | The Radio Authority codes are quite satisfactory but the Independent TV Commission codes are another matter . |
| 21 | The letter may well be a fake but the worrying fact is that it proves there is a dirty tricks campaign designed to blacken the name of the Princess . |
| 22 | After parting from Madame Gebrec , Melissa returned to the library with the intention of working there for the rest of the afternoon , but time and again she found her mind straying from the accounts of former religious wars and the acts of unbelievable cruelty committed by both sides to the more recent clash of ideologies which , it seemed to her , differed from the old in little but the relative sophistication of the weaponry . |
| 23 | Whiskers and ears are optional but the squeaky voice is essential ! |
| 24 | ‘ Eubank trains very hard but the real secret to his success is that he is a very clean living boy , ’ said Davies . |
| 25 | She feels that exhortations are fine but the real purpose of a writer should not be dissolved in the political ideas of the time . |
| 26 | This would be fine but the natural type of memory for a modern machine , a 286 or 386 , is extended memory and this means that often a machine will have 4 or 8 MBytes of memory that a simple spreadsheet just can not make use of . |
| 27 | It may appear paradoxical but the compulsive gambler may get the biggest adrenalin surge from the biggest loss and , like the proverbial fisherman , may boast of the " one that got away " . |
| 28 | The local relief is relatively subdued but the mean elevation is some 5000 m with isolated masses of probable volcanic origin rising to between 6000 and 7000 m ; the Tibetan Plateau is thus by far the highest plateau of significant extent on the Earth 's surface . |
| 29 | It sounds quite absurd but the other day I walked up the footpath from the road just to see if it was . |
| 30 | There is no indication how they decided what had to be paid for by the Stent but the total liability was divided amongst 132 quarter lands . |