Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] but [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , patients with locally confined but palpable disease who are treated by either radiotherapy or radical prostatectomy will show five year survival rates of 75–85% and will enjoy a life expectancy comparable to that of an aged matched male population . |
| 2 | Two incidents marked his highly regarded but controversial career in Chicago . |
| 3 | Regardless of its limitations , the system of Paracelsus seems more satisfactory than the highly regarded but crude reductionist models that came into vogue in later generations . |
| 4 | The knowledge that collective power from organized unions , or the much less organized but media-influenced consumer power , can cripple an organization has , in itself , changed the way managers manage . |
| 5 | Since as Jack Droney put it , Brent , with its left-wing trade unionists , ‘ was a bloody good place for the Grunwick strike to happen ’ , one might expect that the union involved had given the strikers not only support but increased impetus in their struggles , but members of the strike committee certainly did not feel this to be so . |
| 6 | It reminds me of those handsome bottles of fruit at Fauchon , their shape and colour not only preserved but given lustre by the amber syrup they bathe in . |
| 7 | When it came to removing southern pauper children in large numbers to northern or Midland factories , it can hardly be denied that this , albeit short-lived , stage of the evolution of the factory labour force not only systematised but bruta-lised child labour . |
| 8 | A right circular cylinder moving along its axis of symmetry makes a highly idealized but straightforward model of a deforming impactor . |
| 9 | In Muir Hunter on Personal Insolvency ( 1991 ) , p. 3037 , at para. 3–070 , it is suggested that the Theophile construction of the Act of 1914 is a somewhat artificial one , and the question is raised as to whether , under the new Act , unfettered by old case law , the long established but artificial construction will continue to be applied . |
| 10 | The team also supervised the initial stages of dismantling uranium enrichment installations at Ash-Sharqat and Tarmiyah [ for map see p. 38886 ] , removing the remaining highly enriched but unradiated uranium ( 400 grammes ) . |
| 11 | It exposes on a minuscule scale a widely misunderstood but tiresome fact which Australia , Canada and other nations spawned by Britain have learned and taught on a larger scale . |
| 12 | A handsomely produced but unillustrated book like Davy 's Six Discourses ( 1827 ) would have cost more than a week 's wages for an artisan like Faraday had been . |
| 13 | The Anglo-Norman community was a socially isolated but powerful group : the higher aristocracy of England with their households and retinues . |
| 14 | Drawing description files are normally ascii text files , with the drawing attributes and all relevant set-up information described in a suitably coded but printable form . |
| 15 | In addition , however , transitions that are electronically forbidden but magnetic dipole allowed may be well defined in CD spectra . |
| 16 | Hilary Robarts 's sultry handsomeness emphasized her own very different look , an old-fashioned , carefully tended but unselfconscious prettiness which reminded him of photographs of the late thirties . |
| 17 | False positive results with a persistently elevated creatine kinase activity have been reported for the dominantly inherited but benign blood anomaly in which the creatine kinase BB isoenzyme is elevated in erythrocytes and thrombocytes . |
| 18 | Assad did not want the civil war to continue , for if Lebanon suffered any more wounds some of its blood might seep into Syria , through those narrow grey wadis in the anti-Lebanon mountain range and down into the plateau beyond , perhaps even infecting Damascus , whose carefully balanced but Alawite-controlled metabolism had so far remained untouched by the epidemic on the other side of the border . |
| 19 | A little known but priceless work with strong British historical links is currently under restoration and will go on display in the archbishop 's palace next year . |
| 20 | It is a little known but true fact that a two legged creature can usually beat a four legged creature over a short distance , simply because of the time it takes the quadruped to get its legs sorted out . |
| 21 | They had been bought by a well intended but misguided woman who found that she could no longer afford to keep them . |
| 22 | This event held over the May Bank Holiday was not too well attended but considerable interest was shown in the Medau stand . |
| 23 | Knocker 's bored looking battered features brightened as Yanto walked in and leaned on the well used but polished bar . |
| 24 | QPR1 Tottenham2 GORDON DURIE struck a well executed but unlikely winner to guide Tottenham to First Division safety in a pulsating London derby . |
| 25 | Some are well known but new technology brings new problems . |
| 26 | The long term sequelae of infection on acid secretion have not been well defined but epidemiological evidence suggests that longstanding H pylori infection may result in a reduction of acid secretion through the development of atrophic changes in the gastric mucosa . |
| 27 | The metabolic pathways through which chitin is formed are not fully established but enzymatic synthesis of UDP-N-acetylglucosamine from glucose has been demonstrated by Candy and Kilby ( 1962 ) and there is evidence for polymerization under the control of a chitin synthetase . |
| 28 | This ungainly fellow , dressed in dishevelled robes and dancing with a curiously lopsided but fetching clumsiness , somehow managed to touch thousands . |
| 29 | Just out in RCA 's continuing Toscanini Collection are an electrifying interpretation of Verdi 's Otello ( GD 60302 ) with Vinay 's anguished Otello and Giuseppe Valdengo 's insinuating , inspired Iago , and the questionably cast but compelling account of Beethoven 's Fidelio ( GD 60273 ) . |
| 30 | In essence , culture is a distinctive way of life of a people , not biologically transmitted but learned behaviour that is passed on from one generation to the next , evolving and changing over time . |