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 . |