Example sentences of "[adj] but the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was exciting but the last match on the Saturday with Clark and James and Strange and Stewart taking five hours and 15 minutes to go round in a fourball was a joke . |
| 2 | [ 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ The fees involved are n't very high but the actual money involved in modifying the car is . ’ |
| 4 | Chronic sulphasalazine treatment does not seem to be nephrotoxic but the systemic absorption of 5-ASA from sulphasalazine is relatively low . |
| 5 | MacQuillan 's was brown but the other man 's … |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Good boy keep working darling but the only problem with it , that the wheels do n't go round do they ? |
| 8 | The proximal papillae of each series are flat and slightly spiniform but the distal ones become wider especially the free edge with the distalmost papillae being very large , almost triangular . |
| 9 | The main block of the mill is practically empty but the older part now houses grain storage bins . |
| 10 | Some displays were three-years old but the general feeling was never again . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Higher servants might get £10 a year on top but the lower servant girls only £2 . |
| 13 | The General Conditions are basically standard but the following comments are worthy of note : — Condition 2 — Claims Procedure On the happening of any event immediate notification to the company is desirable , as an immediate examination by an Engineer Surveyor/Loss Adjuster can assist in learning full details of any accident including the cause . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | The disk plates are small , imbricating , the centrodorsal plate is distinct but the primary plates are inconspicuous . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The type of notes you make are personal but the important point is that you can follow them with only a glance . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Will he emphasise again and again that the victims of terrorism are not just those who are maimed , injured and killed but the many people who are put on the dole because terrorism deters investment from elsewhere in Europe ? |
| 21 | The Dee at Chester was fishable but the only action was from 40 cormorants who have taken up residence above the weir . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This is not so authentic but the green beans give an attractive appearance to the dish . |
| 24 | No system is perfect but the glaring defects of the British system of misrepresentation are all too well demonstrated by the looming constitutional crisis in Scotland . |
| 25 | To fasten one 's emotional seat-belt is not easy but the first consideration — that of the old person 's needs and wishes-has to be kept constantly in mind . |
| 26 | It still looked easy but the slow progress of the parties ahead showed it was not . |
| 27 | It is not only the Children Act which is under-funded but the entire spectrum of Local Government and the National Health Services . |
| 28 | How each person tends to proceed through the design process will be unique but the overall constraints imposed on whoever tackles the job will be identical . |
| 29 | The first two of these elements are fairly uncontroversial but the third element , effectiveness , is both hard to define and difficult to measure . |
| 30 | The first two of these elements are fairly uncontroversial but the third element , effectiveness , is both hard to define and difficult to measure . |