Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [adj] [adv] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an idle question ; Melissa 's mind was far away but , for the second time in three days , she recognised Dora 's need to confide . |
| 2 | Gentle exercise is valuable too but needs to be taken most days in order to do us real good . |
| 3 | Saint Phalle 's untheoretical understanding of the female body is problematic today but the work is so upfront that criticism becomes mealy mouthed . |
| 4 | ‘ According to the roster , your husband was due here but never turned up , ’ he said sternly . |
| 5 | The room was pleasant enough but had an unused , lonely feel . |
| 6 | The sight of his old foe was bad enough but Boro 's new boy would happen to choose Hendrie 's peg on which to hang his clothes before his debut training session . |
| 7 | The wooded area is nice enough but the schools have a long history of desegregation problems , and are now 88% black and 10% Hispanic . |
| 8 | My father was friendly enough but too obviously confident of his powers : if other parents complained to him about me or my brother , he always took our side and made it clear that he would roll up his sleeves and take on anyone who laid a finger on us . |
| 9 | The traffic was heavier now but the Germans were disciplined to respect a fast-moving car . |
| 10 | Poor Norm 's passing was bad enough but she then found shocking goings-on at Dunraven , the Twilight Home for the Partially Confused in which her mother had been incarcerated — sorry — hospitalised . |
| 11 | Her hood was well forward but I glimpsed her hair , a reddish chestnut colour , like some beautiful leaf in autumn . |
| 12 | After Palladianism came the Rococo ; examples of the style are rare nationally but Bristol in general and the University in particular are generously endowed . |
| 13 | Aumann , for example , quoted Mark Twain 's account of his visit to the Holy Land in 1867 in which the American writer spoke of ‘ desolate country whose soil is rich enough but is given over wholly to weeds — a silent mournful expanse … |
| 14 | I thought the man was crazy really but in 1966 I did develop an interest and started to attend the services … |
| 15 | She told me of Mrs Bullivant , whose voice was true still but whose weight was such that — really … |
| 16 | The American was pleasant enough but it soon emerged from the conversation that the two women had little , if anything , in common . |
| 17 | Lifting a glass during a meal is important psychologically but too much wine would be a disaster . |
| 18 | Well the heating 's hot enough but Arthur feels the cold . |
| 19 | In the third period , average unemployment is higher still but the rate of inflation is declining . |
| 20 | I stress local : Verkhovensky 's group psychology is plausible enough but it does n't engage with anything wider or further that he proposes to do . |
| 21 | The position was clear enough but she thought she ought to enlarge . |
| 22 | The smell was unpleasant too but she resisted the temptation to remove her scented handkerchief from the cuff of her blouse . |
| 23 | Lonely : The spiritual isolation of the disease is lonely enough but add to this the " Jekyll and Hyde " behaviour ( depending upon whether or not a drink or drug has been taken that day ) causing untold damage to family and other relationships and the loneliness becomes intense . |
| 24 | If its home clock said the time was 12.00 a.m. but the sun at the release site indicated 6.00 a.m. the pigeon would infer it had been moved one quarter of the way round the world to the west . |