Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] but [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are a variety of reasons for this , but one of them is that buying and selling shares is considered not only to be something for the rich but also to be very complex . |
| 2 | Advertising by manufacturers has become notorious for the extravagant but contractually ineffective commendation of goods . |
| 3 | Capirossi 's first winter as world champ was a mind-expanding experience for the youthful but remarkably mature Latin . |
| 4 | The orphanage 's overriding function was not only to care for the destitute but also to protect society from dangerous children as there was a fear that roaming , unsupervised youngsters posed a threat to social order . |
| 5 | But it was also an explicitly Christian spirit — unfortunate therefore for the four thousand Jews and for the tiny but now increasing numbers of Hindus , Buddhists , Muslims , and Taoists . |
| 6 | When the twelfth-century bard , Cynddelw , recalled ‘ the clash of Powys … with Oswald ’ , he was looking back on an episode which had considerable significance not only for the Welsh but also for the Mercians . |
| 7 | Profitability , too , varies between the certain but perhaps unexciting rate of return paid by fixed interest government securities , to the more uncertain possibility of large gains to be made on equities . |
| 8 | However , they are names freely used by the locals and they are a great convenience , because they split the Basque country into three geographically distinct regions , from the coastal and no more than foot hilly Labourd , through the higher but still not fully mountainous Basse-Navarre , to the genuinely mountainous Soule , adjacent to the High Pyrenees . |
| 9 | Raking through the out-of-date but always interesting ‘ History ’ shelves at a local second-hand bookshop several days later , I chanced upon a thirteen-year-old volume , titled Sieges of the Great Civil War , by Brigadier Peter Young and Wilfrid Emberton . |
| 10 | Out takes place at an unspecified time several decades after the unexplained but presumably cataclysmic event known as the ‘ displacement ’ . |
| 11 | In addition , it is the young old — those in their sixties and seventies — who play a major part , disproportionate to their numbers , in the maintenance of voluntary organizations which contribute not only to the welfare of the disadvantaged but also to the cultural activities of the country at large . |
| 12 | The risen Lord had appeared not only to women , Peter , and the rest of the Twelve but also to James ( 1 Cor. 15 : 5–7 ) . |
| 13 | It was a human world , we learned , theoretically part of the SenFed but only just . |
| 14 | We also learn much of the deep but often difficult relationship of husband and wife . |
| 15 | Despite new evidence that the brain damage caused by childhood exposure to lead as low as half the EC limit can affect people well into adulthood , in June 1990 , the UK dropped plans to pull out old lead pipes , in favour of the cheaper but less reliable chemical dosing method . |
| 16 | Suffice to suggest that the ego -experienced world of the Sonnets , despite the enormous time devoted to the Thou , creates what is essentially a single vision , a self-dedication to the other , which in effect results in an exposure and analysis , not only of the other but also of the self . |
| 17 | In his recent The Science in Science fiction ( 1982 ) , Peter Nicholls describes as one of the commonest but also unlikeliest cliches in SF the idea of an alien male lusting after an Earthwoman . |
| 18 | The contribution of the undersized but immensely powerful locks Gerard Orsoni and Bruno Motteroz to the devastating eight-man shoves that demolished Biarritz 's scrummage could not be underestimated . |
| 19 | Minutes later she was being ushered out of the small but clinically precise kitchenette , and invited to take a seat on one of the chesterfields as he placed a tray containing two bone-china coffee-mugs , milk and sugar on the glass-topped table between them . |
| 20 | Enterocolitis is one of the rare but potentially fatal manifestations of gold toxicity . |
| 21 | The facts of deixis should act as a constant reminder to theoretical linguists of the simple but immensely important fact that natural languages are primarily designed , so to speak , for use in face-to-face interaction , and thus there are limits to the extent to which they can be analysed without taking this into account ( Lyons , 1977a : 589ff ) . |
| 22 | In addition to becoming one of the leading but still very few practitioners of neo-classical history painting , Angelica Kauffman participated in the movement to decorate with specially painted panels the newly built , Robert Adam-designed country houses of those growing rich on the exploitation of agriculture at home and slavery abroad . |
| 23 | It should be noted that , properly speaking , wrappers are quite different from jackets or dust wrappers , which are not part of the binding but simply an extraneous protection . |
| 24 | His alertness , however , hardly resembles the quizzical interrogations of the puzzled but essentially self-effacing philosopher Palomar ; it is the wide-awakeness of a picaresque hero on the make . |
| 25 | Labour at the moment offers ‘ more of the same but better ’ . |
| 26 | Try the Finale ( track 3 ) for a representative example of the dazzling but highly intelligent pianism on offer here , as well as the impressive orchestral contribution . |
| 27 | It does give an insight into the nature of the American but also to the value , indeed the commercial value , of head-to-head play . |
| 28 | High literary culture was the preserve , naturally , of the literate but also of those educated within a classical tradition , acquainted with previous literary models . |
| 29 | I do n't want to speak ill of the dead but as far as the work was concerned I have to say that he wo n't be missed . ’ |
| 30 | Solicitors on the outside of the lucrative but tight criminal market wanted to get inside it . |