Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj] but [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such restrictions , which are quite common but strictly construed , limit the company 's actual authority to deal with its assets and accordingly remove the basis on which floating charges are postponed to later charges . |
| 2 | They were never essential but always worn on the back of the head . |
| 3 | Today she 's much better but still affected . |
| 4 | MTBE is more expensive but better behaved . |
| 5 | The steering is slightly heavier but more damped , too . |
| 6 | By the 1880s the Longhorn was almost extinct but always regarded with a certain fondness as a quaint and essentially useful animal which appealed to cattle-lovers in spite of its commercial faults . |
| 7 | Two Winslow Homers , an oil and a watercolour , were both somewhat problematic : ‘ The unruly calf ’ , from the Pauline Woolworth Trust , showing a boy trying to coax a tethered calf to move ( lot 36 est. $1–1.5 million ) was very flat but still found a private buyer at $1.1 million ( £687,500 ) . |