Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] but [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However brilliant our modern technology may seem , the best way to care for the Taj is to monitor its behaviour , try to reduce pollution and develop a team of conservators and craftsmen who can care for the building , carrying out maintenance and repair where necessary but not to do anything that pretends to be final . |
| 2 | So an organisation may work very well if its people are motivated or skilled but suddenly run into bad trouble if the level of motivation or skill should fall . |
| 3 | You run an intersection , looking neither left nor right but simply slapping the gas and driving across . |
| 4 | ( According to the so-called " linking rule " , a spell of employment lasting less than this time is considered an interruption to a single spell of unemployment , whilst a spell of employment lasting longer than this but then coming to an end opens up a new spell of unemployment . ) |
| 5 | They are neither defiant nor challenging but rather seem to invite dialogue and engagement with the viewer . |
| 6 | Adam is intelligent , pious , loving and polite but only shows heroic qualities in sharing Eve 's fate and human ones in his uxoriousness . |
| 7 | Both Laugh Not and Kipling Groove have a move or two at good 5a that are strenuous and technical but well protected by a nut or peg . |
| 8 | It has been said that Gouzenko 's defection was the start of the Cold War in that it convinced people that Russia was not benign and friendly but busily spying on its wartime allies by any means at its disposal . |
| 9 | A world of giving women and strong but equally giving men , a world of Bengali dancing , passionately held ideas and seventeen different kinds of psychoanalysis . |
| 10 | We are interested and associated but not absorbed and should European statesmen address us in the words which were used of old — Shall we speak for thee to the king or captain of the host ? ' — we should reply , Nay sir , for we dwell among our own people' ’ . |
| 11 | tamed and restrained but never understated |
| 12 | For the sauce , heat the oil in a pan and cook onion and garlic over gentle heat until softened but not browned . |
| 13 | PEPIT will follow F&C 's investment philosophy : intelligent use of gearing and cautious but steady buying into quality during turbulent or depressed and gloomy markets . |
| 14 | The head of the figure at the extreme left of the Demoiselles is , like that of her companions in the centre of the picture , expressionless and impassive but now has about it a mask-like quality that recalls a wide variety of African tribal masks in which the component parts of the head and face have about them exactly the same quality of definition , although here the similarities may possibly be simply affinities rather than derivations ; the heads of many of the paintings of late 1906 had also been severe and mask-like although they tend to resemble sculptures in stone , whereas the head of the demoiselle in question looks more wooden in both colour and texture . |
| 15 | Carey was often discouraged and frustrated but stubbornly pressed on with his translation work , realising its vital importance in the foundation of any missionary venture . |
| 16 | ‘ She was tired and sleepy but soon woke up when we came to her side . |
| 17 | Heat the oil in a large pan and fry the onion and garlic until soft but not coloured . |
| 18 | He made only 17 and 18 but so weakened himself that he was forced to pull out of the following three-day fixture in Vishakhapatnam . |
| 19 | The place was clean and tidy but not regimented . |
| 20 | Thus it was that the country which , reflecting the convictions of an invincible alliance of the middle and working classes , chose parliamentary reform , limited and partial but irreversibly directed towards full political democracy , and avoided revolution . |
| 21 | Utility underwear was strong and serviceable but totally lacking in glamour . |
| 22 | In the 1910s and 1920s , some newspaper proprietors seemed willing to continue to subsidize their newspapers on political grounds , but the mounting losses incurred in this process — Pearson spent £¾m keeping the Westminster Gazette going , the TUC had spent £½m on the Daily Herald between 1921 and 1928 but only saw profit once in the early years — increased the reluctance of the politically committed to get involved . |
| 23 | It seemed at first sight to be a chaos of struggling men and horses , a wild mêlée ; but soon it became apparent to the newcomers that it was in fact more like a whirlpool of activity , with the ambushed English , above whom the royal standard wavered uncertainly , in the centre , whilst their more numerous attackers circled round them , smiting and thrusting but apparently making only moderate impact . |
| 24 | In fact , the value ( in real terms ) of commissions received by architects rose by 20 per cent between 1971 and 1973 but then fell very dramatically by 47 per cent between 1973 and 1980 before and equally dramatic recovery . |
| 25 | It can seem an impossible feat to look natural but not bare-faced , and made-up but not overdone in trying temperatures , but it can be achieved . |
| 26 | Conversely those who read left-wing papers were largely agreed that they were anti-Conservative and pro-Labour but more divided on whether they had an anti-Alliance bias . |
| 27 | Methil was only developing between 1875 and 1900 but still shipped 400,000 tons in 1888 and was up to 1.7m by 1900 . |
| 28 | Herds of scrawny little creatures , local life forms — smooth-skinned , pot-bellied , longer hind legs than some of the more level stretches rows of colourless plants drooped in the sun , scraggy and semi-lifeless but obviously tilled crops . |
| 29 | He wants them small and blonde but also to know their mullet from a mallet . |
| 30 | Kinnock improved his image most on being energetic and decisive but actually lost ground on being able to stand up to the USSR , reflecting perhaps the consequences of his ‘ dad 's army ’ interview with David Frost . |