Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] but [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Take the steamer , not to Rutli direct but to the calling place round the corner of the Seelisberg cliff face , Treib ( which , by the way , is pronounced like the English word " tripe " ) . |
| 2 | Not only since she came home in nineteen ninety but in the three long years when she was hospitalised . |
| 3 | Other societies would probably have followed Abbey National with stock market flotations in the early 1990s but for the hostility of the Building Societies Commission and the housing market recession . |
| 4 | There will normally be a hostile touching but in the case of R v Rolfe ( 1952 ) 36 Cr App R 4 a man was convicted of indecent assault without touching the victim . |
| 5 | This was 0.95+13.0/-0.9×10 7 counts , corresponding to a rather low mean but with a significant number of higher outliers . |
| 6 | But we er are welcoming the fact that there is a recognition of the rising population of Wales er in giving us this er this additional seat er primarily the additional population has not come in industrial South Wales which er er which er people think of perhaps as the most typically Welsh area , it 's actually in two counties of Clwyd and Dyfed that are erm growing most rapidly because of lifestyle migration , retirement migration erm into those two areas and that is why the additional seat , if you can put it that way , er takes from all the other four of course , is is the mid and West Wales seat which has been compared by the honourable member for Cornwall er tonight and it has only got a population of four hundred and one thousand but on the other hand of course it is such an extensive seat because the population sparsity in that area is much , much worse than even in Cornwall and therefore it is going to stretch from South of Milford Haven to the Llanrwst area really within probably twenty miles of the North Wales coast , it 's a who it 's the whole of two counties plus one additional very badly populated constituency erm in in the county of Gwynedd , an awkward constituency but one that we are certainly looking forward fighting and winning to give us the five out of five er now that er the boundaries are going through tonight and obviously it 's all in line really er to look at the other , the third order of course , the question of the registration of overseas voters in the nineteen ninety two election overseas voters had their first opportunity to participate in Westminster elections . |
| 7 | The oral shield is rounded pentagonal but with a convex distal edge . |
| 8 | More patients fall into this category than any other but despite the relatively localised extent of disease the long term outcome is unpredictable , 35–40% dying as a result of metastatic spread . |
| 9 | Liberal Democrats know that we have a duty , not only to each other but to the generations which follow us , to protect the environment . |
| 10 | A hyper-sensitive fellow , such things cause him great and needless upset but to the rest of the band , it is largely water off a duck 's back , and they are dutifully protective of their singer , as are many of the people working around the band . |