Example sentences of "[be] [adj] but no " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bentley customers are younger but no less affluent than typical Rolls-Royce buyers ; they must presumably be looked upon as good investments because they are more likely to make a repeat purchase than their Rolls-Royce counterparts . |
| 2 | The paper and print are reasonable but no more ; there is one map and eight pages of photographs , not particularly well reproduced . |
| 3 | My horse went down a couple of times when we were riding along a shallow river The hooves must 've turned up the mud at the bottom and I 'm sorry but no amount of expert preparation can help you keep cool when a 500lb horse goes down on you . |
| 4 | Alexander said that everyone wants to be right but no one stops to think whether their idea of right is in fact right . |
| 5 | It is generally held that it should be larger but no agreement on enlarging it seems attainable . |
| 6 | I 'm sure but no one 's ever heard of it . |
| 7 | Last season £18,000 in bar takings were found to be missing but no culprit was ever found . |
| 8 | They were late but no one had started to worry . |
| 9 | Knowledge of pupils and contact with parents may help guidance staff and school management to decide which absences are condoned and which are genuine but no foolproof method exists . |
| 10 | Central Park is cleaner but no safer . |
| 11 | Certainly they 're re-marriageable and these are societies where every woman is married but no spinsters , so they 're redistributed . |
| 12 | Gaelic is Hebrew but no one knew this until Pitman invented shorthand and then without the vowels it was clear that Gaelic and Hebrew were the same . |
| 13 | Robert Dalrymple says its relationships with most of its tenants are excellent but no one can deliver them from recession . |
| 14 | Detailed neurological examination was impossible but no focal abnormalities or neck rigidity were noted . |
| 15 | The language was compulsory but no one understands it , not a word , nothing . |
| 16 | Colonel Moore was benevolent but no pushover : and melodrama too early introduced , though it could be a short cut , was always a risk . |