Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] but with " in BNC.

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1 Considerably less risky but with definite romantic potential was the Kisses Over the Garden Wall number , the entire line being dressed as either girls or boys .
2 The following will all come in useful but with experience you may find alternatives that suit you better .
3 It left quite an impression , because it needed the brilliant virtuosity that Repin already had at that time , and it needed powerful playing from the orchestra , not just loud but with a lot of richness for the fast passages — you know how to judge a great orchestra when you hear let's say thousands of notes in a few seconds , and there 's still a special timbre .
4 It is a small step to suppose that such effects might also operate when a stimulus is presented in compound not with another that is physically present but with the associatively activated representation of such an event .
5 There is his Author 's Note to Victorious Troy to assure us that he has spoken with a boy whose experience had been similar to that of Dick Pomfret and that cases where dismasted sailing ships without officers had been brought to port by boys were not unknown , but we hardly need this assurance in order to believe that Dick , not unaided but with a responsibility beyond his years , did in fact bring the Hurrying Angel home in the end .
6 It showed a large , plump man , already balding but with a pink , childlike face .
7 He came , looking as he always did , huge , a little untidy but with a smile of great sweetness on his lean face , from which the tan had almost completely faded .
8 For many the comparison is not with those who are more fortunate but with their own past position .
9 Many years ago the workforce was predominately male but with the greater use of automation and assembling of sub-assembly-type work , female workers form a greater proportion of the total than , say , 50 years ago .
10 There is a relation to age , with younger and very old people being more field-dependent but with those over 24 being in a period of relative stability , having reached greater field independence .
11 Sterling eurobonds , which are a part of the international eurobond market described in Chapter 5 below , are normally issued as bearer securities and are usually unsecured but with a negative pledge ; they are listed on an exchange but not necessarily the London Stock Exchange and they pay interest gross .
12 At Pasalar , the evidence is strongly in favour of subtropical forest , probably evergreen but with a pronounced dry season , and current work on the microwear of the Pasalar specimens , which are the oldest ones known to have thick enamel , indicates a diet of small hard objects , probably fruits .
13 This can be seen near Dunstanburgh Castle in Northumberland , where the Whin Sill is nearly horizontal but with a slight apparent dip to the south .
14 Three three would have been just about right but with just four minutes to go Wycombe went and won it …
15 Three three would have been just about right but with just four minutes to go Wycombe went and won it …
16 Whatever your opinion of ABBA 's music , you must admit they had a hell of a knack for penning a commercial tune ; the chord sequence here is fairly standard but with a couple of nice twists , with the bass playing a central role in the arrangement .
17 The Forest park and ride attendant tells me they 're fairly busy but with still parking space site for the moment and there 's room to park on the Colwick Race Course and the Queens Drive site too and that 's service does offer free parking for yourself and your passengers and you can travel into and out of the city again for a pound .
18 The house is Victorian , fairly small but with a marvellous homely feel to it .
19 And she , too , had something of the precision and contrived charm of a doll with an almost round head poised ’ on a long delicate neck , a snub nose with a splatter of freckles , a small mouth with a full upper lip beautifully curved and a bristle of cropped hair , originally fair but with bright orange tips which caught the sun and trembled in the breeze so that the whole head seemed for a moment to have a vivid life separated from the rest of her body and , the image changing , he had seen her as a bright exotic flower .
20 In the month of May 1958 , on the eve of a disastrous tearing-apart of the nation and faced by the utter prostration of the system which was supposedly in charge , de Gaulle , now well-known but with no resource except his legitimacy , had to take destiny in his hands .
21 While Arbuthnot was tactful and exceedingly good-natured , Harriett was equally discreet but with a sharper mind .
22 It is completely restored , set in about ten acres of land , rather isolated but with fine views .
23 ‘ I use two amps on stage , switching between the two : a Marshall , which is set quite low but with a good , meaty kind of sound , and a reissue Fender blackface Twin Reverb set up with a cleaner sound and vibrato if I want it .
24 Slightly raised intraocular pressures were controlled with timolol 0.25% twice daily but with no improvement in acuity , which by March 1992 had deteriorated to 6/36 right and 6/60 left .
25 From here it dog-legs left , through sentinel bunkers to a small green , almost flat but with a list to port that will throw away any ball slightly wayward .
26 The ventral arm plates are hexagonal , almost pentagonal but with the proximal angle squared off , to nearly square and contiguous .
27 It 's also pretty wet but with the ratchet block taking the strain out of controlling the sail I can concentrate on technique and having fun and respond to the gusts by sheeting in or sheeting out if I 'm overpowered and moving bodyweight in or out to suit the .
28 But there were also some other rags , a sort of muslin , she thought , very soft but with stiff patches and it stank of bad meat .
29 The climate is good , not too hot but with brilliant sunshine to set off the vivid colouring and give shade and modelling to the arcaded treatment of façades .
30 I thought of him as the rhino : myopic , short-legged , thick-skinned , not too bright but with a mean temper , a surprising turn of speed over a short course , and , above all , a keen sense of smell .
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