Example sentences of "[adj] but [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paint can be exciting but if the subject matter 's not there it wo n't excite me at all . |
| 2 | Paint can be exciting but if the subject matter 's not there it wo n't excite me at all . |
| 3 | All information available is necessarily historical but as the past is mainly a reliable guide for the future it is useful in helping you decide whether you should or should n't give credit . |
| 4 | Trent was unable to read from the map for what distance the banks remained steep but if a fall had blocked off the riverbed then the banks had to be steep right up to where the new river cut away from it . |
| 5 | Somewhere people are drumming — it must be at the far end of the village , because at times the rhythm is distinct but when the wind takes it it becomes muffled , merging with the roar of the full monsoon river . |
| 6 | If confirmed transport is cancelled , changed or delayed by more than six hours or hotel is changed or if we are unable to provide you with the services as confirmed to you by us at the time of booking due to war , threat of war , riot , civil strife , industrial dispute , terrorist activity , disaster , fire , flood ( including fire or flood in hotels ) or bad weather we can not accept liability or responsibility and compensation is not payable but provided the holiday has not begun we will offer alternative travel routing or alternative travel date or alternative hotel and advise additional cost if any or you may elect to cancel and we will offer a full refund of monies paid . |
| 7 | I saw blank , blank come sailing by question ten blank , blank but once a year |
| 8 | Blank , blank but once a year |
| 9 | It is seen , therefore , that the range of oesophageal adaptive responses to environmental stimuli is diverse but that the identification of these serial events forms a unifying hypothesis which has important clinical and research implications . |
| 10 | By exaggerating these postures the differences were obvious but as the paddle strokes were passed on from instructor to instructor the artificial distortions were slowly adopted into reality . |
| 11 | The weak link in the structure is the Inservice Panel , not because such a committee is unnecessary but because the panel lacked a clarity of purpose , clear terms of reference and appropriate leadership . |
| 12 | At first it was cool and rather pleasant but as the day wore on , the temperature in the room rose . |
| 13 | I just ca n't buy it , I 'm sorry but if the author is going to put elements , a political element into it , he must be steering the audience towards something , because why bother putting all these points up , because everybody realises , what the cold war is |
| 14 | The polls before the 1970 election may have registered broad support for Labour but as the election result itself showed this support was conditional and unreliable . |
| 15 | If the reason was redundancy do not say that you were made redundant but that the job itself became redundant . |
| 16 | If I had been standing I could have put it in my personal manifesto that I was a sabbatarian but when the Party committed itself to that , it was placing itself in the position of a church . ’ |
| 17 | It 's sad to have to be so cynical but if the price of safety is walking around with your eyes lowered and avoiding potentially dangerous situations , such as lifts home with near strangers , it has to be done . |
| 18 | ‘ Kavanagh said the steak was n't great but that the lamb was good , ’ Maggie added but Moran was already on his way out again , muttering that not even simple things were made clear in this house and if simple things could n't be made clear how was a person ever to get from one day to the next in this world . |
| 19 | Well , we have to permit the motion of charges to get any current but if the amount of charge crossing a certain cross-section is always the same then the current at that point is independent of time . |
| 20 | The mathematics required to convert the two voltages back into angles and hence into an actual position on the baseboard are relatively complex but once the relationship has been established the system can be made self-calibrating . |
| 21 | It meant that the moor had in the past few days become known not as somewhere unique and beautiful but as the place where a young girl had been killed . |
| 22 | Simple random sampling can be achieved even when no frame is available but where the population members present themselves one at a time as potential sample members . |
| 23 | A neutron and proton are almost identical but while the proton has positive charge , the neu tron has none — it is neu tral . |
| 24 | On the other hand , it may be suitable in creative writing classes where such activities are common but where an exercise such as that proposed here would have the added advantage of providing an insight into Hemingway 's method . |
| 25 | Supported by four Landrovers and equipped with a few flimsy spares , they sported jeans and shorts rather than jodhpurs , tee-shirts instead of ties and jackets , while on their heads they wore cheches — and definitely not pith-helmets. but if the style was different , the spirit was certainly reminiscent of those pioneer days . |
| 26 | The software may be wonderful but if the dealer does n't know how to make it work properly how is he going to train your staff and provide support for them ? |
| 27 | Is the Prime Minister aware that just over an hour ago I received a letter from British Alcan , which has a factory in my constituency at Falkirk , informing me that 169 of the work force will lose their jobs , not because they are inefficient but because the machinery on which they work is 50 years old ? |
| 28 | ‘ To start with he 's gob-smacked but after a couple of glasses of champagne he … well that would be giving the story away , ’ said producer Kerry Davies . |
| 29 | Another man enjoyed sex with his wife while they were reasonably distant but after the tragedy of their daughter 's death brought them closer together he went right off it . |
| 30 | After reviewing the subpoenaed material Greene ruled on Jan. 30 , 1990 , that much of it was not relevant but that a number of diary entries for dates in 1985 and 1986 should be made available to the defence because they " may show what types of aid President Reagan thought could legally be provided for … the contras " . |