Example sentences of "but [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ingredients were just right : three highly intelligent soloists ( Lynne Dawson , Anthony Rolfe Johnson and David Wilson-Johnson ) ; a small but alert choir ( excellently trained by Julian Clarkson ) ; a top-name period-instrument orchestra ; and a conductor not afraid to cherish every aspect of Haydn 's extraordinary score . |
| 2 | But alert neighbours Alan and Beatrice Eales heard the noises and called the police . |
| 3 | More of his scholarship should have found its way into print , but persistent illness , latterly reinforced by family tragedy , cruelly intervened and compelled his early retirement . |
| 4 | But persistent exposure to the same paper-type at least three times a week for a whole year may well have some effect , particularly if it is a preelection year when the political temperature usually rises . |
| 5 | She coughed , Wilson noticed , all the time , not the hacking , tearing deep coughs of a bad attack but persistent little coughs , as though trying and failing to clear her throat . |
| 6 | It is like living in a low-level but persistent depression . |
| 7 | We are concerned about the small but persistent minority , particularly of young people , who re-offend while already on bail . |
| 8 | You must be satisfied that the patient is progressing towards cure according to homœopathic principles : some repetition of an ill chosen remedy may do no harm , because of the brief action of each dose , but persistent use of a superficial remedy may cause harm . |
| 9 | These ranged from the high-profile national bodies like Friends of the Earth , Greenpeace and the Council for the Protection of Rural England , who all had professional advocates to put their case , through to smaller but persistent participants like the South Wales Women 's Support Groups ( defending the interests of mining communities ) and the Irish Sea Project ( concerned about marine pollution ) . |
| 10 | The ‘ silent spring ’ predicted by Rachel Carson some 20 years ago has not arrived , even though global sales of pesticides last year totalled £7 billion ; but persistent organochlorine insecticides , such as DDT , are damaging some populations of birds , and chemicals sometimes destroy beneficial natural enemies and thereby actually create pests . |
| 11 | But still , faint now but persistent , came that crooning subterraneous song . |
| 12 | Now a small but persistent band argues that the risk-free returns on Mexican paper could prove illusory too . |
| 13 | According to them the random pontine activity stimulating the cortex during REM sleep therefore has the function of erasing memories , which , in their terms , have become " parasitic " — interpretations which , whatever their origin , have no place in our latest view of the world and are redundant but persistent . |
| 14 | The wobbling but persistent angle between earth 's axis and ecliptic ( Figure 1.2 ) has ensured that , though not always icy , polar regions have always been strongly seasonal . |
| 15 | Wycliffe was gentle but persistent . |
| 16 | It judged the main discipline problem facing teachers to be not the rare serious incidents of physical aggression , but the cumulative disruptive effects of relatively trivial but persistent misbehaviour . |
| 17 | It would have been amusing to watch Rainbow striving to loosen Riva 's rigidities , unbutton her inhibitions , slip off her certainties , rub away her prejudices with a gentle but persistent thumb . |
| 18 | The essence of the allegation was the unsubstantiated but persistent claim that the 1980 presidential election campaign team of Ronald Reagan and Bush conspired with representatives of the government of Iran in order to reap electoral advantage by delaying the release of the 52 US hostages being held in the US embassy in Tehran , in return for which the Reagan team promised , when he gained office , to supply arms to Iran . |
| 19 | There were sketchy but persistent reports of a crackdown on fundamentalist dissent during December and January . |
| 20 | Erm completely disabling anxiety and depression that is moderate but persistent . |
| 21 | Single bells are fascinating , but triple bells from a single unit are quite remarkable . |
| 22 | Barbara Castle would find it difficult to believe the vehemence of my protests at this foolishly obdurate attitude , but obdurate it remained . |
| 23 | In these passages there is a feeling of necessary novocaine ; morally we are like the refrigerated tongue on the dentist 's chair , mouth open as wide as it ever goes to the instruments of pain , but speechless . |
| 24 | One or two of the surrounding faces expressed alarm but loud laughter was the general response . |
| 25 | And ‘ Glittering Prize ’ is a timely resumé , a collection of singles that shows their gradual but assured effect on the global mainstream . |
| 26 | It may be relatively easy to buy organically grown flour , but unsprayed organically grown fruit and vegetables are a rarity — unless you are able to grow them yourself . |
| 27 | Tickets are often available on the door but advance booking is recommended . |
| 28 | It remains open to claimants and the adjudication officer to cite unreported cases , but advance notice of their intention to do so is required . |
| 29 | Many of the early experimenters spent a lot of time trying to improve the tiny transparent crystals they had made — crystals which they erroneously believed were only silica or other hard but non-diamond crystals . |
| 30 | The intention is not actual but hypothetical . |