Example sentences of "[det] [adj] but [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equal-span wings were of three-bay biplane configuration had some dihedral but no stagger and measured 97ft tip-to-tip . |
| 2 | Is n't that all but a miniature of your poor dead mother , God rest her ? |
| 3 | The announcement of our success , subject to the specific changes agreed during the validation being made , was welcomed by all concerned but the realisation that we had now committed ourselves to commencing a new course on 5 September 1988 made for a summer of hard curriculum development work . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's a sad and unusual case for all concerned but the mother is determined to fight tooth and nail . ’ |
| 5 | School subjects are all worthwhile but the time-table is filled and many of these subjects are pre-empting spaces that could be filled with subjects much more relevant to the modern world . |
| 6 | ‘ We have thought about developing our own commercial but the cost would be prohibitive so we are looking at repeating the success of the ‘ Nature ’ commercial by taking advertisements from other parts of the world . ’ |
| 7 | Neither particularly wanted any more but a lifetime 's resistance to waste went deep . |