Example sentences of "a [adj] but [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made little attempt at conversation and showed no surprise that he should be asked to drive to Boulogne in the middle of the afternoon to pick up a well-dressed but grubby Englishman . |
| 2 | The term " guilt " is another word which has a connected but dual meaning . |
| 3 | It is most important , particularly with younger pupils , that Home Economics should be an enjoyable subject , in which learning is combined with a sense of achievement in a pleasant but industrious atmosphere . |
| 4 | Use a pleasant but firm tone of voice ( no pleading , cajoling , wheedling ! ) . |
| 5 | Arriving on a hot afternoon in October this year I found a pleasant but unremarkable village spread along a bay . |
| 6 | The story goes that ealy in the last century the then owner , a reverend David Edwards made a good marriage to a rich but stout lady , Miss Purnell . |
| 7 | I rose this morning after a few days of calm without mystical experience and I walked through a steep valley in a golden light of dawn that was like a rich but transparent garment covering all things . |
| 8 | A rich but ugly hunchback is able to obtain a beautiful young girl to be his wife and then guards her with consuming jealousy . |
| 9 | A friendly but severe-looking woman answered it . |
| 10 | He 's worried that I 'm getting too excited , but unfortunately that 's my personality , ’ he reflected with a shy but broad grin . |
| 11 | The important point is this : is the use of an overseas company like Sterling ( where inquiries about the real ownership of shareholdings in threatened companies are met with a polite but firm snub ) acceptable within a legalframework trying to ensure fair play ? |
| 12 | A polite but firm approach gets better results than a rude but firm approach . |
| 13 | A polite but clear piece of blackmail to a politician who dominated , but was not in absolute control of , the writer 's county politics . |
| 14 | The atmosphere pulsed with a subtle but distinct menace . |
| 15 | It has the potential of becoming a ‘ green ’ school , fostering understanding and respect for the environment ; a subtle but enjoyable education in flora , fauna , shapes , colours and scents , without sacrificing good garden design . |
| 16 | Not necessarily one 's own physical good looks — some of the battalions of the style fascists look as if their mothers should have considered smothering at birth — but the look of others who do not look right ( a subtle but fundamental difference ) . |
| 17 | To date it is a subtle but important change of mood that , with luck , will grow stronger over the winter — allowing spring to bring those green shoots of recovery that the Treasury and the Chancellor have been banging on about for the last two years . |
| 18 | The Independent of April 8 noted that this Luxembourg meeting of the European Council would be the fourth special meeting in 18 months [ see pp. 37028 ; 37363-64 ; 37782-83 ] and detected " a subtle but important change in the character of the Community , away from supranational roots where the European Commission holds sway , towards a more intergovernmental future under the guiding hand of the European Council " . |
| 19 | Old Ladjang remonstrated with him quietly , but the others were silent , and we realized that our captain was infecting them with a subtle but poisonous hostility towards us . |
| 20 | Whereas , in Fulk le Réchin 's account which preserved the comital family 's own early tradition , Geoffrey was a solid but unremarkable figure , in the Gesta he has undergone transmogrification . |
| 21 | The fourth day was no different as Australia patiently built a solid but modest total of 285 all out . |
| 22 | Abrams ' experience proved that being a solid but unspectacular TV performer is no longer enough in these days where a politician risks instant oblivion unless he can turn in the hustings equivalent of an MTV award winner . |
| 23 | Pete is a bony Londoner with a sallow but healthy skin and clean floppy fair hair , Ellie an attractive girl in her early twenties , her light greenish hazel almond-shaped eyes showing her to be of mixed blood . |
| 24 | The central idea here is that a proper name qua proper name not only picks out one object only , but unlike a descriptive phrase designates that same object in " every possible world " ; a " possible world " being understood as representing a possible but unactualised situation , or a series of situations , of which the given object might be a feature . |
| 25 | In assessing the value of the action no account is to be taken of a possible but unadmitted finding of contributory negligence , costs or interest . |
| 26 | The words of marriage ceremonies are in fact usually spoken in just such a low-key but deliberate manner . |
| 27 | Not all that long ago the term ‘ independent sector ’ described a broad but distinct territory of critical practice in film and video . |
| 28 | Brussels sprouts , baked potatoes , grated cheese , the variation of vegetables in the summer , a tin of vegetarian steak pudding on Sundays and a piece of fruit afterwards is a monotonous but healthy diet , and I ca n't think of many cheaper ways to feed two children and feel you 're doing your best for them at the same time . |
| 29 | Contemplating his career on a prestigious but uncharismatic magazine , Marchbank made a rapid and fateful decision . |
| 30 | Transformed by cunning makeup and a virtuoso display of technical and emotional acting skill , her portrait of a frail but flinty island woman achieved its power by suggesting more than it said . |