Example sentences of "but [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | It has come from people who are well informed about the governors ' aspect of management , who know how to take the influence and information of parents into account and who , because they have taken part in one specific but widely shared exercise in adult education , have had the chance to understand and contribute to a wide field of public and community affairs ( Sallis 1988 ) . |
| 3 | AS THE dust settles on the surprising , but widely approved decision to appoint Claudio Abbado chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra to replace Karajan , a new round of speculation is about to begin . |
| 4 | Hers is a performance of indisputable class making little but tremendously effective use of her famous fluttering gestures . |
| 5 | When Hannah was a child , running water meant the stream in the field and such things as electricity , the internal combustion engine and even the wireless were available only on another planet or so it must have seemed to the average resident of this remote and lovely but intensely deprived valley . |
| 6 | An uncertain but immaculately manicured forefinger hovered over the dashboard . |
| 7 | Her hand was retained and to her astonishment given the slightest but most certain squeeze . |
| 8 | Iran declared its neutrality in the First World war , but most Iranian sympathy lay with German because she was fighting Great Britain and Russia . |
| 9 | Yes er but most other water authorities have got their er er subsidiary operating in waste disposal . |
| 10 | But most mental illness lacks any clear physical symptoms and is recognizable only from the patient 's abnormal behaviour . |
| 11 | Some married well , but most married back into the working class from which they had come . |
| 12 | By experimenting one will only discover the delights of this neglected , but most versatile medium . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The mass effect was of a light but most brilliant ultramarine . |
| 15 | It appears that post-primary education is both a cause and a result of economic prosperity but most circumstantial evidence points to primary education being more of a cause than a result in this relationship . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A pair of these , with a simple matching scarf in a lovely colour , makes a quick but most acceptable present . |
| 18 | But most medical writing — even up to the 1920s — displays unscientific ignorance of sexual matters : dire warnings of physical and mental consequences of ‘ Onanism ’ or ‘ conjugal masturbation ’ ; the consequences to women deprived of ‘ vital fluid ’ being especially severe . |
| 19 | Amelioration occurs in some groups , but most organic change centres around a ‘ set of basic designs ’ then reflecting a saga of accumulating excellence . |
| 20 | There was also the unexpected but most gratifying development of the girl 's jealous lover and his mate beating Tyler within an inch of his life . |
| 21 | Arms sales clearly do but most military expenditure does not . |
| 22 | Wyse and AST Research have been mentioned as possible candidates — Sequent 's name has long been mentioned in conjunction with AST ( UX No 371 ) — but most likely candidate appears to be Minneapolis , Minnesota-based Tricord Systems Inc . |
| 23 | Palaeoenvironments were probably subtropical forests , strongly seasonal but most likely evergreen . |
| 24 | Feminist ideas are interrelated with philosophical ideas , but most feminist writing would not be recognised as ‘ philosophy ’ . |
| 25 | Our technique of solving the above equations has improved , and of course we are in a much better position now to evaluate the material constants , but fundamentally electromagnetic theory stands now as it stood a century ago . |
| 26 | Strikingly good-looking and energetically homosexual , he conducted a long but conspicuously unsuccessful search amongst working-class men for ‘ the Ideal Friend ’ . |
| 27 | The Rover abruptly swung out and roared past , the passenger cop giving them a suspicious but mostly supercilious glare . |
| 28 | Portpatrick rock marks gave occasional codling but mostly small coalfish and pollack . |
| 29 | So far we have considered the significance of attachment in relation to the fundamental but rather general issue of whether it is safe to rely upon others at all . |
| 30 | She paused and then said : ‘ It was a horrible end to an interesting but rather strange dinner party . |