Example sentences of "an [adj] but [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lithuania 's Prime Minister , Kazimiera Prunskiene , in late April and early May conducted an extensive but largely fruitless round of foreign visits in the hope of securing recognition by Western governments for Lithuania 's independence and material support to alleviate the effects of the blockade . |
| 2 | Not surprisingly in a small fish with an extensive but virtually one-dimensional ( East-West ) range , different populations have developed different colour patterns , and perhaps in time these will become different species altogether . |
| 3 | If the Bill had stopped there , we would have supported it as an unnecessary but reasonably harmless measure , but it goes far beyond the type of incident about which we are all deeply worried . |
| 4 | Marius is an unstable but extremely powerful character who is prone to fits of rage . |
| 5 | On main roads , the 50 km/h average speed also remained unchanged , an unhelpful but hardly unexpected outcome given the lack of treatment these received roads in the experiments . |
| 6 | An old but much altered city church , recently restored . |
| 7 | The car has been through several variations of engine size , but now like an ageing but still beautiful dowager , repeated facelifts can no longer wholly hide the ravages of time and progress . ’ |
| 8 | She paused and then said : ‘ It was a horrible end to an interesting but rather strange dinner party . |
| 9 | They are generally thought to be striking at Hipparchos not shown , an interesting but rather surprising concept ; one might rather see them as defending themselves against the bodyguard which cut them down . |
| 10 | In an interesting but rather elusive study of Methodism , which sees it as " the English counterpart to the democratic revolution " , the critical dynamic in a " modernisation " of English society which bypassed the need for revolution , Professor Semmel writes that Wesley primarily addressed his message to " The poor of the nascent proletariat of England 's growing factory towns " . |
| 11 | The art of coastal navigation , or pilotage , as it is known to seamen , can be an interesting but often tricky business . |
| 12 | The human population , and the livestock , of a dozen townships was moving , like an organised but somewhat undisciplined army , from the cultivated area of the crofts to the summer grazings , or shielings , on the hill , where each township , and indeed each family , had its own special area , recognised and protected by custom , although in law they all had equal rights in the whole common , and had a joint committee to regulate its use . |
| 13 | While the Council for British Archaeology 's Philip Thatz stated in an honest but politically inept way what treasure hunters have been saying for years that … |
| 14 | The commentator 's ingenuous query could just as well have been prompted , however , by an unrelated but somehow symptomatic display of the insensitivity and obstinacy that have come to be regarded as part of Kohl 's character . |
| 15 | Hilyer ( whose character is apparently the Patron Saint of actors ) is , however , excellent , while Rae Smith 's idiosyncratic costume designs and the lighting by Paul Russell also make very effective contributions to an uneven but often rewarding evening . |
| 16 | Within the health service there is an established but still growing interest in the use of such data ti contribute to an understanding of the geographical patterns of disease incidence and to contribute to more general issues of health service resource targeting . |
| 17 | A piece of this cake , with a glass of skimmed milk and a piece of fruit makes an easy but extremely nutritious meal . |
| 18 | We tested children in pairs so that each child in the pair observed visual illusions from different angles such that one child saw one kind of illusory view and the partner saw an opposite but equally conflicting view . |
| 19 | Furthermore , as we shall see shortly , the individualistic fallacy obscures an obvious but usually unasked question and , in so doing , rules out of court the answer to it which , as I hope to show , solves in large measure one of the fundamental problems of the social sciences and provides us with an unparalleled insight into the social psychopathology of present-day life . |
| 20 | Couples enter high-booted in an elaborate but genuinely traditional promenade . |
| 21 | Thirdly , the king had an indirect but extremely effective way of taxing external trade : only his silver pennies and halfpennies were accepted within the realm , so any foreign coins brought to a port , whether by a homecoming Frankish trader as profit or by a foreign trader to purchase Frankish goods , had to be converted into Charles 's currency . |
| 22 | Notably free of movies on white heterosexual themes , the programme includes Danny Thompson 's Public Enemy/Private Friends , a good-natured if thin Brixton-set comedy about three ranting rap-type youths desperately trying to find their lost ticket to a Public Enemy concert ; Cheryl Farthing 's Rosebud , an effective but slightly posey awakening-of-lesbian-desires item with an appealing cast and silly fantasy touches , and Mark Nash 's Between Two Worlds , about a gay florist in psychoanalysis . |
| 23 | Like Iran , Morocco was ( and still is ) governed by an educated but often corrupt elite gathered around the person of the King . |
| 24 | The Dutch meteorological institute KNMI announced , after studying satellite pictures of the cloud , that it was an uncommon but quite natural phenomenon . |
| 25 | Edward had a car — an ancient but still magnificent-looking Ford Zephyr . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Was nitrogen , an important but delicately balanced nutrient , no greater than 0.4mg/litre ? |
| 28 | Such a person manages the curriculum in an important but strictly limited way by affecting the conditions within which it is delivered . |
| 29 | The discussion covered police pay , seen as an important but potentially costly commitment , and the undesirability of a referendum on capital punishment ‘ because of its implications for other policy areas and the danger of undermining Parliamentary government ’ . |
| 30 | Baldwin was an important but fairly silent auxiliary to MacDonald . |