Example sentences of "[adj] but [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the latter were Scottish but a few were mercenaries from Denmark , Ireland , and as far afield even as Genoa . |
| 2 | The south side of Princes Street with its gardens and the Old Town skyline is changeless but the shopping side of the street is rapidly being transformed . |
| 3 | He brings a world-weariness way beyond his years to his electric portrait of Morrissey-style bedroom star , painfully shy in public but a demon in his own private universe . |
| 4 | Normally I would never have raised the matter in public but the Tories persistently use Points of Order to accuse Opposition members of misdemeanours . ’ |
| 5 | The art work is primitive but the silly little joke is what comics used to be about . |
| 6 | Glancing with irritation at the cocky girl who was n't even properly French but a bourgeoise English snob with no clue about what was what . |
| 7 | I would need to check with the erm er computer manager you know which fields are takeable , you know how , I do n't know if you know computer re how computer records are stored but every piece of information like erm the admission figure , the title , the distributor will be a field and I presume if er any information like the time is in a separate field then you would be able to have a report by fields . |
| 8 | 1357 , was not a Franciscan but a Carmelite of the Whitefriary , and his connection with Stamford is purely related to the university legend . |
| 9 | It was seen as a one-off but the rest of the band recognised Solowka 's zeal . |
| 10 | It was all quite sensible but a little nefarious . |
| 11 | Hence the bigram model is sufficiently non-sparse for full matrix storage to be sensible but the trigram matrix requires some means of sparse storage . |
| 12 | It was exciting but the last match on the Saturday with Clark and James and Strange and Stewart taking five hours and 15 minutes to go round in a fourball was a joke . |
| 13 | all of our paid fors have er , done very well this year in circulation terms all but two of them have increased their circulation in the first half , despite quite high price rises , for instance the York county newspaper , the weekly there , we have a daily but the weekly there went up by five P and the weekly in Bath where again we have a daily that went up by six P . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Midwifery manager Ann Wilson said : ‘ One set of parents were very understanding but the others were more angry about it , although they are calmer now . ’ |
| 16 | It may not be entertaining but the target is a Premier League place . |
| 17 | Knocks it in towards Speedy and got the final ball wrong but a shame he 'd done so well . |
| 18 | They say ‘ I 'm all right ’ or ‘ I 'm fine ’ when we know , as a friend or a partner , that there is something wrong but the opportunity to share the problem is not taken . |
| 19 | Luckily he could find nothing wrong but the disbelief was still in his voice . |
| 20 | The reason for this advice is that , if you go wrong but the examiner can identify the stage at which you have gone wrong , he is able to give you the appropriate credit . |
| 21 | Dobry 's view that ‘ it is not so much the system which is wrong but the way in which it is used ’ was endorsed , and his Final Report was commended to students of our planning system as an invaluable compendium of information about the working of the existing development control process , and to local authorities and developers as a source of advice on the best way to operate within it . |
| 22 | In our case the origin of the myofibroblasts is not clear but the presence of transitional forms of smooth muscle cells strongly suggests an origin from such cells rather than extension of pericrypt cells or infiltration of circulating blood cells . |
| 23 | Whether this lenient approach applies in actions for negligence is not clear but the employer 's personal non-delegable duty to the employee to take into account the possibility of the employee 's carelessness for his own safety is relevant in such a calculation . |
| 24 | A line of 60 characters printed on a typewriter looks OK but a 6″ line of type set at 10pt is virtually unreadable , simply because the eye gets bored and stops short of the end . |
| 25 | The couture world was very sordid backstage then , the salons would look OK but the cabines were filthy . |
| 26 | Tonight winds will be calm inland but a light southerly breeze over the Clyde estuary and the Argyll coast will keep temperatures there around five celsius , that 's forty one fahrenheit . |
| 27 | And they use words like ‘ potto ’ , ‘ cellaro ’ , and ‘ brosha ’ — which are neither Italian nor English but a combination of the two . |
| 28 | [ Liverpool 's ] great stations — Lime Street , the Central and the Exchange — are centres of bustling life , of passengers coming and going ; and scarcely a day passes without the reminder that the city by the Mersey is not only English but the Continental portal to the New World . |
| 29 | ‘ We have thought about developing our own commercial but the cost would be prohibitive so we are looking at repeating the success of the ‘ Nature ’ commercial by taking advertisements from other parts of the world . ’ |
| 30 | The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak … |