Example sentences of "and [adj] but the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As artists , we have seen shifts int he boundaries of public and private , high and low , inaccessible and accessible and , indeed , even personal and political but the influences of past feminist art practices on these moves is very rarely acknowledged . |
| 2 | It 's thick and durable but the carpet-layers swore never to work with it again . |
| 3 | Their draughts of memory were clear and generous but the daughters — in truth Richard 's nieces but brought up as his sisters — thought there were points with which they did not wish to embarrass their mother and after our talks Rhianon wrote : |
| 4 | We had just come out of a 12.30 matinee and the street was burning in the sun and those who had come out of the theatre was cool and real but the others in the street were moving in a white light that had them like shadows . |
| 5 | Will he emphasise again and again that the victims of terrorism are not just those who are maimed , injured and killed but the many people who are put on the dole because terrorism deters investment from elsewhere in Europe ? |
| 6 | Schools in urban areas were predictably more numerous and efficacious but the gap between urban and rural areas narrowed . |
| 7 | Relations continued to be close and cooperative but the district now identified more with its " champion of the people " role , less with the protection of its own units . |
| 8 | Like Nicotiana langsdorfii , the flowers are pretty and intriguing but the plant as a whole is not showy in our climate , making too much stem and leaf . |
| 9 | The land was hard and compacted but the plough shares carved through the earth cleanly and Ted knew his labours would n't be wasted . |
| 10 | Previous floor paintings , done in Europe , were in black and white but the one for New York is in colour . |
| 11 | Most of the games he owned were very old and substandard but the one saving grace in his collection was a game called Rambo . |
| 12 | Boxing Day morning was grey and overcast but the rain promised to hold off at least until the evening . |
| 13 | Cork prices have risen , and all but the best wine-makers in Italy , Germany , Spain and Portugal in particular have plumped for cheaper , veinier corks . |
| 14 | For an ordinary Joe , two years spent in the open prison at Parkhurst was no big deal but for Henry , to be starved of decent food , a regular intake of recreational drugs and all but the most basic of sexual activity was deprivation on a grand scale . |
| 15 | There are a few glimmers of hope , however , since fewer firms are having trouble collecting fees and all but the larger firms are optimistic about increasing their client base . |
| 16 | It is most widely used in Pakistan , and all but the poorest quality Mori Bokharas are normally given a lustre wash . |
| 17 | The report , in paragraph 480 , records that all the professional bodies which gave evidence recommended that patients aged between 16 and 18 should be able to give an effective consent to treatment and all but the Medical Protection Society recommended that they should also be able to give an effective refusal . |
| 18 | I nodded towards the black murk of cloud that blocked off the valley and all but the lower slopes of the mountains . |
| 19 | However , in present circumstances it would be unrealistic to expect ordinary citizens and all but the largest courts or law firms to be able to exploit the possibility . |
| 20 | No major change in the strength of all the main constitutional parties is expected once counting ends tonight and all but the Conservatives say they are pleased with their result . |
| 21 | Word pairs were scored on acoustic-phonetic probability and syntactic tag transition probability and all but the highest scoring hypotheses were pruned from the graph at each decision point . |
| 22 | Passing data between CHAINed programs can be a bit of a problem because COMMON variables can not be declared and all but the static variables are cleared by CHAIN . |
| 23 | You were thinking thin and healthy but the outside did n't match ? |
| 24 | There seem to be our two groups er , in one of our provinces and they say that the rich and poor but the rich er er are not so rich and others . |
| 25 | The mighty old walls are wide and deep but the city has barely enough warriors to protect them . |
| 26 | The exterior , built of brick , is simple and plain but the interior is magnificent in its mosaic and marble decoration and its unique capitals . |
| 27 | This has the obvious advantage of reducing the sheer volume of data to be gathered and processed but the disadvantage of being inflexible and possibly missing significant happenings because the category system did n't allow for them . |
| 28 | LOCAL BUS — Processors are getting faster and faster but the clock speed of the system bus has stayed put at 8MHz for over nine years . |
| 29 | It was light and teasing but the message was clear . |
| 30 | The undercut cave is dark and mysterious but the lightness of the sandy bottom becomes apparent as I look across the bend , the water becoming shallower as I scan across to the inside of the bend . |