Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adj] but [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stella Havard speaks to Trish Gardiner about her difficult but highly talented dressage horse WILY IMP |
| 2 | The article convincingly argues for the adoption of Relevance Theory not only for its explanatory but also for its evaluative applications . |
| 3 | Judaism produced Marx , Freud and Einstein , none of them Orthodox but all influenced by Jewish culture . |
| 4 | What the Russians thought of their rough but kindly guide it is impossible to say ; but he grinned , and exclaimed in amazement as he tried in vain , with a stumpy pencil to get a list of their names , and then sympathetically remarked , as he looked at their wan faces , ‘ There is no wonder at the chaps being ill ; even their names is all coughs and sneezes ’ . |
| 5 | Each plot was worked by a group of apprentices to produce the leeks , potatoes and brassicas that were the staples of their unimaginative but reasonably nourishing diet . |
| 6 | This provides many challenges of its own but here we need to look at these facts as part of the question of why handling death apparently needs more help these days . |
| 7 | Nonetheless , the music demands attention , and those in search of something rewarding but well off the beaten track and need not hesitate unduly . |
| 8 | His hand curled around the nape of her neck , the pressure of it light but steady so that she had no choice but to lift her head and meet his gaze . |
| 9 | In its origin [ Christianity ] presents to man and woman a glorious picture of sexual integrity : the Son of God who has become man and flesh , knowing from inside his Father 's work and perfecting it in the total self-giving of himself , not only of his spiritual but precisely also of his physical powers , giving not only to one individual but to all . |
| 10 | On the rare nights that he was not in The Bar Boy would lay out all these papers in a circle on the floor around his bed ( he had this affectation of keeping his bed , a mattress on the floor , in the centre of his small but almost empty room ) . |
| 11 | However , during the 1680s and 1690s it is difficult to distinguish his parliamentary activities from those of his younger but politically more significant cousin , Sir John Lowther of Lowther , first Viscount Lonsdale [ q.v . ] , |
| 12 | As a result , he was unlikely to initiate a Russianizing drive of his own but equally unlikely to let others begin one . |
| 13 | She tried , but was not pleased with what came out , with the stilted words : — I have been unwell though not of anything infectious but rather a serious lowering of the spirits which I struggle to overcome . |
| 14 | I did n't go because I was suddenly seized by an overwhelming passion for him , we did n't make love on the tiger-skin rug in that little box of a room you gave him , his pear-shaped body pressed against my ageing but still voluptuous frame . ’ |
| 15 | Two or three times a year she exchanged the cushioned existence she had constructed for herself for something different but equally restful , like a prolonged stay at a good hotel in the country or a cruise on the QE2 . |
| 16 | What interested Ian now , however , was not his relations with his superior but quite another matter . |
| 17 | Compromises with his few but firmly held prejudices were only made when to hold out meant risking something irreplaceable . |
| 18 | Nevertheless conditions in which limited but often intense urban nationalism would flourish were being created and would provide a catalyst of future revolution ; although for a long time fears that educated Vietnamese would rise up against their French masters were certainly not encouraged by the numbers of children in school . |
| 19 | They find a backlog of work building up , in which important but less urgent planning and discussing never get to the top of the pile , being submerged by the constant stream of things that have to be dealt with immediately . |
| 20 | She stood in the angle , shapeless and erect in her aged but once — good suit with the foxhead-and-riding-crop brooch on the lapel ; the well-pressed faded blouse ; the sensible heels planted apart ; the leather gloves softly slapping the palm of the hand — and of course , a new hat . |
| 21 | We wanted to get away from it all but now find we 're in daily contact with people all over the world ! ’ |
| 22 | Save for … but he refused in his quaint but thoroughly determined way to evade or apologize any more . |
| 23 | He made something of a jovial name for downright failure : a big , heavy man ( probably seventeen stone ) , he barely averaged more than four runs an innings and he took only eight wickets in his long but profoundly uneventful playing career . |
| 24 | In his prejudiced but occasionally interesting Labour and the Benn Factor ( Macdonald £12.95 ) , Michael Cocks recalls Benn on the train after a party conference wandering up and down the carriage saying : ‘ Has anybody seen a pair of National Health Service glasses ? ’ |
| 25 | Now in his eighties but cracklingly alert , he is happy alike to talk about his view of Hamlet and his literary friends in the town , the work he was doing in the church , the essays he was writing : there is an irresistible donnish delight in his manner and calmness , the repose of the greatly confident — a quality which was later attributed to Richard . |
| 26 | The case was heard by an exceptionally unconventional judge , but one of sound common sense , Mr Justice Caulfield , who more recently found fame in his unorthodox but equally commonsensical summing-up in the Jeffrey Archer action , where his description of Mrs Archer as ‘ fragrant ’ , no doubt causing great embarrassment to the lady , will go down in the history of judicial extravagance . |
| 27 | Devlin Parnham was in his seventies but apart from the sparsity of his frame and a slight tendency to stoop you would never have known it . |
| 28 | But just as the " Miller 's " energies are concentrated in his sustained and masterful display as a raconteur , the spleen of the Reeve is released in his self-reflection and in his pointed but ultimately harmless fabliau . |
| 29 | Here they are shooting the breeze , Fairfax in his outmoded but perfectly cut clothes , the laibon in a dark blue shift and a cape of fur , with ear lobes that contain three or four little bead earrings and a silver wire holding a small copper bell . |
| 30 | As a scholar and theorist , Hirsch is known , apart from his unfashionable but vigorously argued advocacy of intentionalism , for his conviction that literature is not a coherent concept , and has no definable essence , and that by extension ‘ English ’ as a discipline has no absolute method . |