Example sentences of "an [adj] [noun] but [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An involuntary shudder but a shudder nonetheless . |
| 2 | An understandable emotion but an unnecessary one . |
| 3 | A trip to North London in the middle of the week is hardly an inviting prospect but the Cube Club at the Bull And Gate in Kentish Town on Tuesday , Wednesday and Thursday nights has made the nearby tube station seem like a home from home for the discerning music lover . |
| 4 | A trip to North London in the middle of the week is hardly an inviting prospect but the Cube Club at the Bull And Gate in Kentish Town on Tuesday , Wednesday and Thursday nights has made the nearby tube station seem like a home from home for the discerning music lover . |
| 5 | However , I could see his logic , which was that not only did it burn about three times as much wood as an enclosed stove but the draught from the chimney sucked up a considerable amount of the underfloor heating , and even though it cost us nothing , it was poor economics . |
| 6 | The present line-item budgeting system is not an economic system but a political one biased towards the government of the day . |
| 7 | Centuries after their creation , we intervene to limit the deterioration of frescoes , painted panels , canvases or marbles , and to preserve for posterity not just an empty shell but the enduring substance of a work of art . |
| 8 | An Indian poet once wrote that the tiger stalks the jungle like the lowering clouds of an approaching storm but the leopard moves as silently as mist drifting on a dawn wind . |
| 9 | Geographic , demographic , social and financial factors combine in many areas of the country , to ensure that institutions of 150+ represent not only an unrealistic goal but an unattainable one too . |
| 10 | There is an accompanying brochure but no catalogue . |
| 11 | All this made Zeinab an interesting woman but a rather unusual one . |
| 12 | It was an unmistakable pass but the sergeant had no desire to respond : the man was too camp for his taste . |
| 13 | The western section is already at an acceptable standard but the east section is in poor condition , virtually unusable when wet . |
| 14 | To state the identity of a free person made clear that he was not an asocial person but a member of a group of free men . |
| 15 | Drachenfels enjoyed watching his magically created puppets humiliate and denigrate his ‘ guests ’ , an immature pleasure but a pleasure nonetheless , and the puppets are very eager to put on another performance after so long inactive . |
| 16 | The original motion was proposed by Frank Jacques as an Individual Member but the various amendments from the floor were sufficiently substantial to make the final version a fair representation of majority opinion among the voluntary members . |
| 17 | A. vole molar from barn owl assemblage with no evidence of digestion ( ×14 ) ; B. enlargement of another specimen from the same barn owl assemblage with slight surface digestion of the salient angles ( ×38 ) ; C. vole molar from long-eared owl assemblage showing rounding of the occlusal edges of the salient angles but no penetration of the enamel ( ×38 ) ; D. enlargement of same ( ×150 ) ; E. murid molar from barn owl assemblage showing slight surface digestion of the enamel ( ×22 ) ; F. vole molar from short-eared owl assemblage showing extensive superficial digestion along all the salient angles , producing an uneven surface but no penetration of the enamel ( ×25 ) ; G. enlargement of same ( ×110 ) ; H. shrew molar from barn owl assemblage , undigested ( ×36 ) . |
| 18 | The training means people can relate quality to their work so it 's no longer just an airy-fairy philosophy but a practical tool kit . |
| 19 | First , it was not an annual report but a one-off ; secondly , it did not call for more funding — |
| 20 | The tomb was robbed of its treasures at an early date but the paintings survived intact until their re-discovery in 1904 by Ernesto Schiaparelli . |
| 21 | Some of the interior mosaics are of an early date but the majority , especially those in the narthex and domes , are of thirteenth century work and are very fine and rich . |
| 22 | He said that that is not just an early priority but an immediate one . |
| 23 | It was an envied privilege but a hanging offence to forge or frank falsely . |
| 24 | It was obviously an unusual request but the young gentleman did n't see why not . |
| 25 | At that same moment the Cubist painters , other than Picasso and Braque , were making contact with each other on the basis of common pictorial interests , while the Italians were banded together with an elaborate programme but no adequate means of expressing it . |
| 26 | It makes for an extraordinary mixture but an entertaining one , as eclectic as the individual pieces he describes . |
| 27 | Today claimed malicious falsehood was n't an applicable action but the country 's number two judge vice chancellor Sir Donald Nicholls this morning said that it was . |
| 28 | Mr Skinner 's real concern is not United 's loyalties in the event of an Anglo-American war but the bargaining strength of the US industry in international negotiations . |
| 29 | The references to Morgan v. Palmer and the other two cases and to the compulsion on the importer to adopt one of two courses suggest that O'Connor J. was referring to a situation where there was not only an unlawful demand but a means of enforcing it without recourse to litigation . |
| 30 | If he could adopt that standpoint , he might describe himself as an empirical realist but a transcendental idealist ; but , since he can not adopt that standpoint , he is just a ‘ realist ’ . |