Example sentences of "but [adv] [adj] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But most welcome for the channel will be the news that Wordperfect will not be setting up its own consultancy arm a la Microsoft and Lotus . |
| 2 | It was a fine evening as I passed through Claggan village and on to Achintee , but rather warm for the job ahead . |
| 3 | Full of character the bridge may have been but woefully inadequate for the increasing traffic of the busy port and in 1856 the new bridge was opened . |
| 4 | The pony/horse could have a stable and rugs , these items are a necessity for the highly bred horse but not essential for the hardy ponies . |
| 5 | Over the Westland affair , she said : ‘ I was sad for him because he minded a lot , but not sad for the rest of us . ’ |
| 6 | This wine was light and fresh with quite a sharp dry taste , but not bad for the price . |
| 7 | Each year we tackle more and more difficult problems threatening potential damage to rural Wales , some of an international nature , and others apparently purely local , but nonetheless important for the future . |
| 8 | RIVER CROSSENS : Good fishery but often slow for the first week or so until fish located . |
| 9 | Prospects : Possible as a short-term measure , but increasingly implausible for the longer term as the cracks become wider and resources for papering them over become more scarce . |
| 10 | It is raining at the moment and it 's gon na be wet and windy but quite mild for the rest of the day . |
| 11 | ‘ … the extent of the establishment is but barely sufficient for the exigencies of the County , and it can not be contended that it is on too large or extravagant a scale ; the number of patients constantly on the books of the Infirmary ; the high reputation which it has justly acquired under the excellent management of the medical and other officers belonging to it ; the strict economy which to the general satisfaction of the Governors has been observed in the ordinary expenditure of the House … call forcibly upon the County at large to hold out a protecting hand to save it from ruin which appears inevitably to have waited , if not averted by our timely interference . ’ |
| 12 | So what I was doing I was coming into it , I was coming in too fast for the gear , not too fast for the corner , but too fast for the gear . |
| 13 | Secondly , wars which involved civilian targets were less dangerous and cheaper to organise , but very costly for the defender . |
| 14 | This was bad news for writers of space westerns , but very hopeful for the small number of us who believed in black holes at that time : it was the first positive evidence that neutron stars existed . |