Example sentences of "but [adj] [vb -s] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The books are quite short ( about 40,000 words , less than a quarter of the text of this present volume ) , but each has about 150 drawings and pictures . |
| 2 | But that sounds rather grand , and the reality is rather different . |
| 3 | ‘ But that comes pretty high . |
| 4 | Lizzie Webb 's Eight Minute Workouts tells you to scissor your legs — but that puts too much strain on the lower back and could tear ligaments , says the programme . |
| 5 | The one move that is seen as a means of significantly improving the picture is another sharp improvement in efficiency — but that means still more job cuts , and word is that the company is considering seeking another 70,000 voluntary redundancies over the next four years , brining its workforce down to just 100,000 by 1997 , compared with 240,000 in 1991 ; finding more volunteers should not be too hard — its last offer was massively oversubscribed , but ironically , many of those that depart will end up working for its incoming competitors . |
| 6 | The Church has to be the voice of the voiceless , but that means far more than the cardinal and bishops making statements . |
| 7 | In reality , one finds people reading newspapers , knitting and drinking cups of tea , but this constitutes rather dull television . |
| 8 | It may be the case , as some transgenics junkies are claiming , that in 25 years ' time , all chickens on the market will be transgenic but this sounds uncannily similar , in its arrogant implausibility , to the famous Fifties claim that nuclear power would make electricity so cheap it could n't be metered . |
| 9 | The average income elasticity of demand for imports was of the order of 1.5 to 2.0 between the late 1950s and the early 1970s , but this obscures quite wide variations between goods and there are strong grounds for believing that in expansionary phases the ratio rose to as high as 5.0 or 6.0 ; and even the average for manufactured goods was just over 3.0 [ Eltis , 1979 ] . |
| 10 | Below and beyond this zone behavioural responses must become the major controlling mechanism , but this becomes metabolically expensive , and must lead to exhaustion if it can not be made good by an increased intake of food and rest . |
| 11 | But this shows how necessary it is for proud , independent , self-reliant people to be broken , re-educated , and redirected to walk in the ways of the Lord . |
| 12 | A drag coefficient of just 0.30 helps the Safrane to a achieve a top speed of 129mph , which is good enough to see off the Granada ( 123mph ) , but this looks distinctly average when every other car on our rivals page can top 130mph . |
| 13 | No , but this looks quite nice . |
| 14 | But this seems so purposeless . |
| 15 | But this seems extremely unlikely : it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that we are observing a development of centralised designs from regular grid arrangements . |
| 16 | In flight all Arctic 's primaries , seen against light , appear translucent and silvery , but Common has only innermost four primaries making a pale translucent patch . |
| 17 | Immatures of both have distinct whitish V at base of tail , but Spotted has much larger and more conspicuous pale spots on upperparts than Lesser Spotted , which in turn has a distinctive buff patch on nape . |