Example sentences of "a [adj] but [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had heard that Newgate was a hell-hole but now he experienced it first hand and understood why some prisoners went quickly insane . |
| 2 | Within a period of about 20Myr ( taking the Ediacaran faunas as 560Myr old and the base of the Cambrian as 540Myr old ) , the oceans changed from habitats housing a rich but effectively microscopic biota , to one teeming with macroscopic animals engaged in a wide range of ecologies and presumably showing a degree of behavioural sophistication . |
| 3 | Hodgson had already used this trick for a radio play , Sword from the Stars , to give a robot named Jones a haughty but very mechanical voice . |
| 4 | One possible answer to this is that such a person is felt to be not only a representative but also representative as a person of those who chose her/him . |
| 5 | The weather for the Fox F M area : a dry but mainly cloudy evening and night , the minimum temperature eight degrees celsius , forty-six degrees fahrenheit , and the wind could pick up to become moderate south-westerly during the evening . . |
| 6 | On a dry but extremely windy day I never once felt cold as I sat on top of Red Screes for half an hour munching through my packed lunch . |
| 7 | There is a subtle but very real difference in where you place the emphasis , and the interviewer will not then automatically make the assumption that there was something lacking in you which caused you to be made redundant . |
| 8 | Characteristically , the internal organization of Bloomsbury , beyond its status as a group of friends and neighbours , and its meetings to read memoirs , was a private but eventually general publishing house ( the Hogarth Press ) which published over its whole range . |
| 9 | Apart from becoming highly energetic and making the body burn up many more calories daily — a possible but usually very slow method of shedding weight — there is no other way of losing weight than by depriving the body of calories . |
| 10 | This I regard as a possible but less natural meaning of the section . |
| 11 | By the spring of 1956 Devon Loch , now a ten-year-old but lightly raced , was clearly a serious candidate for the Grand National : he had won two good chases the previous autumn and finished fifth in the King George VI Chase to Limber Hill . |
| 12 | The game should have been a classic but clearly was n't . |
| 13 | It was what she had been hoping and longing for but there was no surge of delight , only a strong but strangely detached sense of relief that the worst of his ordeal was over . |
| 14 | Dayan determined to retain a strong but relatively invisible grip on the territories while also creating an impression of normality for the residents . |
| 15 | This anomaly can be explained by a strong but short telemagmatic heating event , with coalification having preceded porosity loss of the reservoir rocks , and/or by fracture porosity gained through tectonic disturbance of the rocks . |
| 16 | As the crest passes there is a strong but short forward movement , while during the passage of the long flat trough little movement takes place . |
| 17 | A strong but politically excluded opposition is largely composed of the broadly socialist alliance led by the Awami League and the right-of-centre grouping led by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party ( BNP ) . |
| 18 | No he 's not a spastic but like he does talk some serious shit . |
| 19 | The move up to verse can be made for the exit of a person from a lower but also for the entrance of one from a higher rank . |
| 20 | It is therefore a tall but also slender building , all in brick , with a high , elegant south tower and spire . |
| 21 | This band sounds like an ulcer , a festering sore , a self-consuming but nonetheless exhilarating secretion of bile . |
| 22 | Interleukin-2 is a controversial but increasingly accepted treatment for malignant melanoma and renal cell carcinoma and , used in combination with cytotoxic therapies , is becoming recognised as a treatment for other solid tumours , such as colorectal carcinoma . |
| 23 | In 1983 , The Illusionist , a novel by Anita Mason , offered a controversial but historically valid perspective on the coalescence of the early Church ; it was short-listed for the Booker Prize , Britain 's most prestigious literary award . |
| 24 | They also have a slim but slightly better chance of winning a vote for a referendum . |
| 25 | Nicholas was only one in a long line of young Scots including the 16 year old Spurs player Graeme Souness who found London to be a lively but ultimately lonely city . |
| 26 | A favourite but much over-worked vehicle for public relations is the information service or bureau for a manufacturer . |
| 27 | Porfiry 's bait for Raskolnikov ( ‘ a precious question ’ Dostoevsky calls this dangled interrogative hook in his notebooks ) holds a different but equally potent fascination for the reader , instancing the story 's inexorable grip and the virtuosity of the examining magistrate at work . |
| 28 | Now the opportunity arises for the area to develop a different but equally valuable reputation . |
| 29 | Yet , long before we clashed , the Bugis had possessed a highly complex written language , in which every letter looks rather like the cross-section of a different but closely related spiral seashell . |
| 30 | Potentially more poignant and serious is the rhyme lef/gref , " desired , loved " / " grief " ; a linkage of glee , licence and distress that we find again shortly afterwards , with a different but phonetically similar word , " " leve " " , " leave " , " licence " , and the verb " " greve " " , " grieve " , where Wilekin takes the risk of declaring himself : ( " Now that I have won leave for me to cause myself grief would be wrong . " ) |