Example sentences of "but [adv] [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Forgive me — such a ridiculously slight acquaintance — absurd — but so extraordinary a coincidence — really — quite , quite … ’ he was lost for words .
2 She could address a letter to ‘ the occupier ’ , but so impersonal a request might well go unheeded .
3 But only half a century later the Priory itself was secularised by Henry VIII and the land incorporated into the gardens and park of the house we see today .
4 But only half a mile away you 'll be in force 5 to 7 and choppy water , excellent if you 're a fit expert .
5 But not such a rip off
6 The European market for acetate filament yarn is expected to shrink slightly during 1993 — disappointing but not such a blow as that experienced during the last two years which saw the market in Europe tumble from 40,000 tons to 30,000 .
7 I was very good at planning menus and cooking , but not such a whizz at car , boiler or electrical appliance repairs or breakdowns .
8 She moved nimbly and took his arm in a firm but not hurtful a grip .
9 Distantly ahead is seen Beinn Fhada , the key to the watershed crossing to Loch Duich , the bealach giving access to Gleann Lichd and Morvich but still half a day 's march away .
10 But nearly half a century of neglect has left the former DDR 's network in a no less lamentable state of collapse .
11 Unlike its classic American predecessor , from whom Rudner and Bergman have shamelessly pinched not only the basic scenario but also many a vignette along the way , Peter 's Friends never unfolds its characters with any psychological depth or surprise .
12 by no means the perfect pub , but as good a place as any to spend an evening in a town which I always thought would make an ideal site for a nuclear test .
13 Yerofeev , it is said , chose this way of life deliberately and was not forced into it by economic circumstances , but inevitably such a life style would induce a sense of infinite weariness and degradation — which Courtenay 's appearance fails to convey .
14 There was one particularly disastrous episode with a boy of startling beauty ; he was called Higginbotham , but even such a name could not dim his lustre nor silence his eclat .
15 But here such a change in price can not occur since prices are fixed at the end of period t - 1 and their values are therefore known .
16 But then such a fuss about who was wearing a bra , had slip-on shoes , heels , roll-ons .
17 Malinvaud assigns a special role to prices and incomes policies to effect a differential adjustment of W in relation to P , but how such a policy would operate in the absence of quite massive and probably unacceptable levels of state interference both in wage bargaining and in the pricing decisions of firms remains a disconcertingly moot point .
18 But how extensive a part ?
19 Mrs Clinton is on record as favouring mental-health services , but how bountiful a package is not clear .
20 But however bad a year it has been , Christmas should always be a time of hope and happiness .
21 We move now to a larger departure from the blueprint ; books in which the tug factor is not who did it but why such-and-such a person committed some particular crime ; books in which the emphasis is on character .
22 I I if it can be done in the greenbelt policy it must be done in E two and there can be no argument that it is not too detailed a matter in greenbelt policy but too detailed a matter in E two .
23 Seeing how nature treats an inept hedgehog made me very glad that we have won the long counter-insurgency war with nature in the western world : but too weak-minded a reverence for nature is going to allow us to treat fellow humans as if they were hedgehogs in the shrubbery .
24 Her red suit was smart , but too bright a colour for her pale English pink and white skin , her brown hair could have done with a wash and her nails were ragged and bitten .
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