Example sentences of "[adj] but no " in BNC.
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| 1 | This three-quarters works itself to death , generation after generation , at the behest of the female quarter , more sapient but no less savage , which dominates it by an impenetrable social mystification of oestrus . |
| 2 | Soon rumours started that the prisoners in the orphanage would be set free but no one knew where they would go . |
| 3 | Russia 's problem was strategically different but no less daunting , for though she had only one front she faced two enemies : Germany and Austria-Hungary . |
| 4 | Inside there 's a material flap to keep your hands warm but no zipped size pockets . |
| 5 | Detailed neurological examination was impossible but no focal abnormalities or neck rigidity were noted . |
| 6 | Sandy coloured and varying greatly in shade according to the dominant colour of its normal habitat ; has some dark but no white feathers in tail . |
| 7 | Plot similar to The Accused but no less disturbing . |
| 8 | Using a round-ended knife , stir in the milk to make a soft but no sticky dough . |
| 9 | With both Queen and loader in shot , hanging on wires not seen , the number of control crew during the five-day shoot of this sequence alone was obviously large but no accidents occurred . |
| 10 | These examples at least seem clear ; more often , buildings contain ovens or hearths which suggest bread-making but no other characteristic debris has been recognized . |
| 11 | An attempt had been made to set it alight but no damage was caused . |
| 12 | Above the nave arcade is a clerestory but no triforium ( 300 ) . |
| 13 | The Romanesque is of Transitional type , with wide pointed arches and barrel vault , a clerestory but no triforium . |
| 14 | There is the economic risk that the investment will not make electricity any cheaper , and the less quantifiable but no less real political risk to the CEGB and government of introducing a controversial new technology into the UK . |
| 15 | His mountain spellings are very idiosyncratic but no doubt faithful attempts to transcribe local pronunciation . |
| 16 | My horse went down a couple of times when we were riding along a shallow river The hooves must 've turned up the mud at the bottom and I 'm sorry but no amount of expert preparation can help you keep cool when a 500lb horse goes down on you . |
| 17 | Alexander said that everyone wants to be right but no one stops to think whether their idea of right is in fact right . |
| 18 | No plenty of bloody but no or see he forgot to go up and help was busy on Boxing Day they wo n't pay , they give them a free ticket to get in . |
| 19 | Grown near soft-coloured rock roses , such as Helianthemum ‘ Salmon Queen ’ , the contrast is more subtle but no less effective , especially if you plant the prostrate , greeny-grey-leaved E. myrsinites so that it scrambles among them . |
| 20 | It is more likely to be used on the factory floor than in the boardroom ( where the process is often more subtle but no less damaging ) . |
| 21 | In summing up the band and its line-up changes , the new album and his move to California , Lemmy quotes a line from Motorhead 's last ballad : ‘ Everything changes , it all stays the same , everyone guilty but no one to blame … ’ |
| 22 | Reading a lot made me a little odd but no one bothered much what I read . |
| 23 | About twenty injured but no one killed , and the main works are n't damaged . ’ |
| 24 | I 'm sure but no one 's ever heard of it . |
| 25 | The third is a less tangible but no less striking phenomenon , the general feeling for freedom that has come over us all , an understanding heightened by the recent escape of millions of people by 1990 from the miseries of authoritarian rule and command economies . |
| 26 | Certainly they 're re-marriageable and these are societies where every woman is married but no spinsters , so they 're redistributed . |
| 27 | Overall results good but no records broken |
| 28 | So with increased age there is a switching of health rating from good to fairly good but no large increase in the percentage classing themselves as in poor health . |
| 29 | No one knew quite why this did not happen , why he remained good but no better than that , nor why he failed the audition for admission to a county youth orchestra . |
| 30 | They were late but no one had started to worry . |