Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] but [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her tenants were poor but carefully selected in accordance with their apparent potential for self-improvement . |
| 2 | Skirts were full but invariably finished just over the knee — and how many women would like to wear printed velvet breeches ? |
| 3 | When normality for either group was not reasonable the corresponding test used was the Mann-Whitney , although this assumed that the shapes of the two underlying distributions ( for regulated and random ) were identical but possibly shifted in terms of the median . |
| 4 | Bandboys were fun but strictly barred by the Tiller office . |
| 5 | Reza Shah was literate but scarcely educated . |
| 6 | It was the first time in my life I had experienced anything like this and was nervous but deeply honoured . |
| 7 | Equipment was conventional but well maintained . |
| 8 | All three studies confirmed the Best and Gemberling ( 1977 ) effect when the exposure duration was brief but also found that more prolonged initial exposure generated latent inhibition both when the exposure-conditioning interval was short ( 3–4 h ) and when it was long ( 24 h or more ) . |
| 9 | His voice was soft but still held authority . |
| 10 | Habermas 's theory involves a reflexive moment that was present but unsatisfactorily worked out in the earlier versions of critical theory . |
| 11 | The apartment maintained by Ladram Avionics on Park Avenue was small but comfortably fitted out in contemporary style . |
| 12 | Her room was small but nicely furnished , and she smiled at the sight of a posy of flowers in a vase on the dressing-table . |
| 13 | This , too , was small but nicely furnished and comfortable-looking . |
| 14 | It was small but perfectly formed , as Dudley Moore is fond of saying of himself . |
| 15 | The woman was uninjured but extremely upset . |