Example sentences of "but [adv] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were there not to service the latest release plans of the record companies but to represent a submerged but vastly influential music culture . |
| 2 | Yes er but most other water authorities have got their er er subsidiary operating in waste disposal . |
| 3 | But most non-scoring credit decision systems are based on a similar idea — an attempt to predict the future , based on how an individual seems to fit into a pattern of past good and bad credit risks . |
| 4 | RETAIL goods are notoriously hard to shift in these dark days of recession but most high street chains manage to offload last season 's stock with a bit of discounting and persuasive salesmanship . |
| 5 | Amelioration occurs in some groups , but most organic change centres around a ‘ set of basic designs ’ then reflecting a saga of accumulating excellence . |
| 6 | She paused and then said : ‘ It was a horrible end to an interesting but rather strange dinner party . |
| 7 | Peter Tyrer , who works at St Charles ' Hospital in London , has found that the people who suffer withdrawal share not a specific protein , but rather specific personality traits : insecurity , inability to make decisions , an over-reliance on the opinions of others . |
| 8 | The language form which becomes the target for many acquirers of BSL is therefore not BSL itself but rather some pidgin sign form incorporating a great deal of English syntax . |
| 9 | Most such new schemes will not be general , but rather special classification schemes designed for a particular application or subject . |
| 10 | Characteristically , the internal organization of Bloomsbury , beyond its status as a group of friends and neighbours , and its meetings to read memoirs , was a private but eventually general publishing house ( the Hogarth Press ) which published over its whole range . |
| 11 | The fed sequence ( Fig 3B ) again shows marked antropyloric activity but little apparent particle reduction or gastric emptying of the meal . |
| 12 | So I think erm Hertfordshire 's voice should be heard and however , my resolution asks us to look at the possibility of opposing not only the building of terminal five but all further airport expansion in the South East be it at Heathrow , Stansted , Gatwick or Luton . |
| 13 | Fear of the risks of contraception may turn women towards apparently safer but less reliable barrier methods , This may increase unwanted fertility . |
| 14 | Khazari won here for the Triple Diamond Syndicate and would deserve a chance , but perhaps another course winner Titian Blonde may be the right one . |
| 15 | There are several blank pages after this but perhaps another minute book , now lost , was started . |
| 16 | An old but much altered city church , recently restored . |
| 17 | David Hewson looks at Britain 's capable , but much under-used Skymaster aviation data service |
| 18 | I met a teacher recently , one of our best , the sort of charismatic individual with a ready smile , a mind full of anarchic ideas , a love of literature and an effortless but much practised classroom skill which bounces back from the interested eyes 0& his students . |
| 19 | Stella Havard speaks to Trish Gardiner about her difficult but highly talented dressage horse WILY IMP |
| 20 | In the same way , attempts by a small but highly articulate pressure group around the journal Nature , founded in 1869 to argue for the social utility of scientific research , gained only limited success . |
| 21 | This development led , among some of the partners in the education system , to a sense of chaos ( TES 1991b:12 ) : A combination of over-prescriptive legislation , a well-meaning but disastrously complicated assessment system and an indefensible system to use GCSE for the statutory end-of-stage assessment , produce here a conundrum … |
| 22 | Everybody suffered ( apart from the banks ) — but especially third world countries . |
| 23 | Fixed-charge debentures rank above floating-charge debentures in the event of default , but only floating-charge debenture holders can ask for a company to be declared insolvent under the 1986 Insolvency Act . |
| 24 | Mrs Standing said two public meetings about the proposals were held in Skerne Park Community Centre but only one Lakeside resident turned up . |
| 25 | But only 3,000 wildcat miners are digging at the mine , compared with 20,000 a year ago . |
| 26 | More than 136,000 mortgage payers were taken to court in 1990 , a 63 per cent rise on 1989 , according to the Lord Chancellor 's Department ; but only 55,000 possession orders were made ( 49,000 in 1989 ) . |
| 27 | That great dust-nebula hid within it dozens of hellish solar systems which witnessed no stars , but only rippling rainbow auroras forever a-dance . |
| 28 | While Prussia struggled to create a tariff union of German states — the first step on the road to forming a German nation-state — the Western nations were already involved in building up their as yet un-integrated but nevertheless substantial rail networks . |
| 29 | Equally , with age , there were fewer T-units per sentence ( fewer co-ordinated clauses , for example ) , fewer but longer single clause T-units and , as a corollary , more multi-clause T-units . |
| 30 | Towards the end of the 16th century when the President 's Lodge of Queens ' College was built its timber framework was plastered over and it was not until 1911 that the plaster was removed to reveal the massive but somehow delicate oak members which make up the frame . |