Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [adj] but [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another less weighted but no less effective criticism is that those areas which most need really effective state intervention are the least likely to produce the conditions in which intervention can work , the most obvious reason for this being that deprived peripheral regions are , as Banfield noted , not locations attractive to administrative and political elites of the kind needed to implement the reforms . |
| 2 | It was all quite sensible but a little nefarious . |
| 3 | When he was told that what he had said was all very well but a bit negative , he fell back on the 13 wasted years that he has been in opposition . |
| 4 | This is all very well but the only men my light was shining upon by the end of last week were Swotty Cyril and a few disgruntled Teachers . |
| 5 | Riley pulled an ear and bit a lip and said this was all very well but the trouble was he had learned the other man was unwilling to move to the Post after all . |
| 6 | An evocation of his previous summer holiday in Pontardulais , it was the first of many papers about the half-fantasy Malory-like character of a knight called Basil of the Woods or the Knight Solitary : ‘ all very sublime but a little uninteresting to everyone but myself . |