Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adj] but [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Siemens says that few major innovations have been brought out for this small but very steady market for the past 10 years , which should guarantee take-up . |
| 2 | Franchises were re-allocated by competition in 1964 , 1967 and 1981 , and although there was each time a public invitation and a grand interview , the procedure involved a good deal of preliminary contact and discussion , not least about such important but apparently secondary factors as studio locations and offices . |
| 3 | Not much of that fabled but very real gold has survived . |
| 4 | With unit shortages there are reports of some overcrowding but more 158 's and 156 's and even some green Centro 150's can be seen . |
| 5 | Only one major problem arose during the course of this extensive but meticulously planned renovation exercise . |
| 6 | The logical conclusion of this conceited but surprisingly widely held stance should be to declare all such people as legal minors . |
| 7 | Feminists should be extremely wary of this well-intentioned but politically counterproductive move . |
| 8 | Now the company operates ten of these cumbersome-looking but uniquely able aeroplanes , together with one Shorts 360 . |
| 9 | The last decades of the century saw the flowering of numerous bizarre but intensely committed religious sects which often reflected disenchantment with both Church and State . |
| 10 | My task has been to reconsider some of those complicated but always significant histories wherein differences conflict and converge as desire itself . |
| 11 | IN THIS COUNTRY we first knew Krzysztof Kieslowski as director and co-writer of two imaginative but sharply realistic pieces : A Short Film About Killing , a painful record of capital punishment , and A Short Film About Love , a study of a misunderstood attachment ; both dealt with concrete interpretations of the Ten Commandments . |
| 12 | The writer is able to measure artists not only against each other but also against standards of technical achievement . |
| 13 | Horses need to belong to a herd for many related but completely separate reasons . |
| 14 | Many were , therefore , in positions to take economic advantage of the transport system , which connected them not only with each other but also with major centres . |
| 15 | On the contrary they usually put their gifts into some satisfying but resolutely unimaginative task . |
| 16 | ‘ You mean they put out they 're into free fucking but really they just want to get hitched ? ’ |
| 17 | But er I I looked into all this but there you go . |
| 18 | I certainly have no objection to your publishing my name and address in the next issue of CONTACT and would hope that it would not only motivate people already over here in North America to get in touch with one another but also those at present studying in Salford who might have an interest in working here after graduation . |
| 19 | I now turn to the professional encounters I had in the late 1970s and early 1980s with two senior but very different public figures , Lord Mountbatten and Harold Macmillan ( later Earl of Stockton ) . |
| 20 | The age structure of the West Indian and Asian communities differs not only from each other but also from the general population . |
| 21 | He was offered a Dupont chemical engineering scholarship and might have become a captain of industry somewhere in middle America , balding , bloated and with a houseful of his own children , anonymously having pursued a largely uneventful career in that worthy but slightly boring structure of management in a giant US conglomerate . |
| 22 | ‘ I never felt that Jesus was a friend and I do n't think that I really ever loved him before this half but now he seems always near to me and I like to think of Him more than I ever did before Mama 's dying so suddenly and unexpectedly made a great impression on me … ’ |
| 23 | Just about everything works well enough in this competent but hardly inspiring production . |
| 24 | To gain respect in this infuriating but somehow compelling man 's eyes ? |
| 25 | In the individual 's mental life someone else is invariably involved , as a model , as an object , as a helper , as an opponent ; and so from the very first individual psychology , in this extended but entirely justifiable sense of the words , is at the same time social psychology as well . |
| 26 | In the great conservative monarchies of Prussia , Russia and the Habsburg empire military influences , reflected in such small but highly significant things as the habitual wearing by their rulers of army uniforms , pervaded the atmosphere of the court and many of the upper reaches of government . |
| 27 | The focus of what could be seen as a heartfelt cry for commercial sanity to be restored to the sport centred upon one simple but now all-consuming issue — money ! |
| 28 | It has come from people who are well informed about the governors ' aspect of management , who know how to take the influence and information of parents into account and who , because they have taken part in one specific but widely shared exercise in adult education , have had the chance to understand and contribute to a wide field of public and community affairs ( Sallis 1988 ) . |
| 29 | Faced with all these uncertainties the strategies adopted in the U.S.A. and Europe are in general different but usefully complementary . |
| 30 | Olson , in several illwritten but splendidly honest verse diatribes against MUZAK , showed that he knew that fear and hatred as well as any of us . |