Example sentences of "but [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The submissions were brief and lucid , economical of Ministerial time , but unaccompanied by any files or background papers from which alternatives could be devised or warning signals detected . |
| 2 | Petrograd , still the cultural centre of the whole country , had been spared the cut-back of January 1922 , but due to financial pressures four papers merged into two in order to save costs . |
| 3 | We have innumerable paths that need constant work but due to financial pressures the lucky ones might only receive around six weeks ' work a year . |
| 4 | But due to other commitments and the very constricted nature of the passage , it was not pursued at the time . |
| 5 | There could not , however , be prescriptions that were valid for all cases ; national policy was a ‘ continuous creation ’ , and what was necessary above all was a realistic and undogmatic approach , free of national chauvinism but receptive to legitimate expressions of national self-consciousness . |
| 6 | He could also ride a horse , with or without a saddle , and hit a target ten times out of ten with arrows from his bow , but neither of these things seemed to count . |
| 7 | But neither of these cases really proves the existence of strong agrarian unrest ; both show that local discontent could be drawn into the political struggles of contending dynasties and their magnate supporters . |
| 8 | The answer may mean harsher timetabling , or it may mean reconsidering the school 's traditional use of its premises and their parts , but neither of these answers is impossible . |
| 9 | But neither of these brats would kill him ! |
| 10 | But neither of these explanations for the missing ‘ critical ’ element in recent art is wholly satisfying . |
| 11 | But neither of these translations gives the slightest clue to the idiomatic meaning of the original French expression ; the first means ‘ to laugh loudly and maliciously at something ’ and the second ‘ to give up ’ ( e.g. when asked a riddle ) . |
| 12 | The reason for the biphasic peaks of APGPR in serum is not clear but may come about as a result of two phases of pancreatic procolipase secretion corresponding to early , cephalic , vagally mediated pancreatic secretion of low volume but rich in pancreatic enzymes followed by a duodenal phase in response to CCK and secretin as acidified , partially digested food enters the duodenum . |
| 13 | Poor in capital but rich in bad loans , many will go bust ; probably more will be able to merge with other — with luck healthier — banks . |
| 14 | The theories propose that above this energy the strong interactions are unified with the weak and electromagnetic interactions , but that at lower energies there is spontaneous symmetry breaking . |
| 15 | In 1984 , the six-month unemployment rate for electrical/electronic engineers was 4.2 per cent , but that for chemical engineers 11.1 per cent ; 9.9 per cent for physicists but 21.9 per cent for zoologists ; 11.4 per cent for economists but 18.4 per cent for sociologists , 9.3 per cent for French graduates but 15.1 per cent for Russian graduates . |
| 16 | Now , given a phrase consisting of adjective + noun , we may say that , for ascriptive adjectives , the referential locus of the adjective and of the noun are one and the same , in other words that but that for associative adjectives . |
| 17 | At this point it is sufficient to mention that it is accepted that there were differences between the real and reported rates , but that for some crimes over certain periods of time the difference was fairly constant . |
| 18 | The percentage of Danes who smoke has decreased , but that of heavy smokers ( >515 cigarettes/day ) rose between 1953 and 1991 from 6% to 22% in men and from 1% to 14% in women . |
| 19 | My guess is that , with a few exceptions , it wo n't but that in four years we 'll have another Mogg-Davidson book claiming that they got it right all along . |
| 20 | That 's one of the reasons why I 'm , why I 'm also interested in er in Freud because I think Freud provides that , I happen to think that Freud 's studies of , of crowd group psychology actually explain that , although it takes time to you know , certainly not at five minutes to four , it takes time to explain , but I think there is an explanation there and I think you c y y you can claim that there are certain emotions to do with identification and idealization , th that our genes have a programmer which things like erm nationalistic erm , erm er kind of jingoism can exploit in a modern culture which in primal cultures would have primal cultures people identify with their , with their local kin and their local culture and that 's that might ultimately promote their reproductive success , but that in modern cultures , this identification occurs with erm on a completely different level and with lots of people will not merely because you need so many more people modern cultures you have much more erm much bigger groups and you just meet many more people that , than you were ever th there is some interesting research , research recently published for instance which shows erm organizations seem to have a critical size and that people are not really able to track more than about two hundred and fifty other people , in other words you can have face-to-face relationships with up to about two hundred and fifty others , but once it gets beyond two hundred and fifty it 's too much and you start forgetting somebody as if the brain was primed to an optimum group size and once you get above that you just ca n't keep . |
| 21 | " In Several parts of the Country , they have already established the Herring Gauge Barril filled to the Brim as a proper measure by which Putatoes aught to be bought and sold , and that four fulls of the said Barril shou 'd constitute the Boll , but that in other quarters of the Countrey they are in use to Buy and Sell Putatoes by a Creel measure which is very uncertain . |
| 22 | The figures in Table 4.2 suggest , not that the action project made no difference in delaying institutionalisation , but that in both locations it slightly increased the likelihood of institutional care . |
| 23 | For example , Vince ( 1952 ) concluded that the primary population had fallen both in numbers and relative proportion during the period 1921–31 , but that in some areas a new ‘ adventitious ’ population was beginning to replace them . |
| 24 | Shoreditch 's theory is that MI5 agents were trying to cast proxy votes on behalf of dead people still on the electoral register , but that in some cases they jumped the gun . |
| 25 | He must argue not merely that surprise is inefficient and undesirable but that in some circumstances surprise must nevertheless be accepted because of some other , then more important , principle or policy . |
| 26 | The reason why Hambledon and Ryedale get different standard spending assessments is not that they are similar but that in some ways they are dissimilar . |
| 27 | NOx production is substantial too , but controllable by lean-burn techniques and catalysts . |
| 28 | But few of those stations were geared to supply materials for the DIY motorist , and deliveries were unreliable or non-existent . |
| 29 | The seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writers do describe a number of fruit fools , fools made from gooseberries , raspberries , strawberries , redcurrants , apples , mulberries , apricots , even from fresh figs ; but few of these dishes turn out to be the simple cream-enriched purées we know today . |
| 30 | Problem solving is an important part of the work of researchers of all descriptions , as well as medical diagnosticians , archaeologists , translators , historians , detectives , accountants , designers and taxonoms , but few of these fields have contributed to the problem-solving literature ( excepting detective fiction ) . |