Example sentences of "[adj] but [not/n't] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bishop and the Archdeacon were old and wily but not too well-informed ; Spruce , on the other hand , looked to her like an intelligent adversary . |
| 2 | The day before we were due to leave , he came up to our room after lunch and began by saying that perhaps it was n't so sensible for Flora to continue her journey by herself , travelling by local buses across the Atlas , and not only not sensible but not altogether safe , even though she was tough and independent and used to looking after herself . |
| 3 | p/b £7.95 Reliable but not very inspiring trot through the architecture of the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | In conclusion , it may be remarked that , besides chance effects , the greatest diversity is found where there is an unseasonal climate , topographic and edaphic heterogeneity , and where the nutrient levels are lo– , but not too low , and where predation and other disturbance is high but not too high . |
| 5 | Add to the cranberries and simmer for about 8 minutes until the pears are translucent but not too squashy . |
| 6 | And if we draw a line it 's the analogy of someone pedalling on a bicycle , if you reach thirty five and you 're going up on a bicycle like that it 's reasonably steep but not too steep , you can cope with that on a regular basis . |
| 7 | In general , what people find most stimulating and most attractive is a bit different but not too different from what they know already . |
| 8 | Even in those species that choose a mate that is a bit different but not too different from close kin , other factors are also important . |
| 9 | In my own work with Japanese quail I have found that this process may lead to a preference for a partner that is slightly novel — just a bit different but not too different from the members of the opposite sex it knew when it was young ( Bateson , Mate Choice ) . |
| 10 | If B is to avoid his application to Strasbourg being declared inadmissible for failure to exhaust domestic remedies he will have to show that he is absolved from having had to raise the issue of the reach of the Gallagher jurisdiction before the House of Lords because legal advice , erroneous but not wholly unreasonable , suggested either that the House would not hear his arguments or that the relisting option remained open . |
| 11 | It should be interesting but not too interesting , fit in thematically and colour-wise but give a ‘ clean ’ backdrop to speakers . |
| 12 | Pamela Walford ( Mrs Vandyke-Prince ) has had an interesting but not always easy life . |
| 13 | Intellectual sharing is interesting but not very romantic . |
| 14 | Unlike Japanese , Chinese , and Vietnamese , most languages have a grammatical category of number , similar but not necessarily identical to that of English . |
| 15 | They are similar in many respects , with a shared language ; advanced industrial economies ; similar but not always identical political , social , and economic values ; and some mutual needs . |
| 16 | Y yes chair it 's all about relative accessibility and simply improving roads more distant from Leeds will make them relatively more accessible but not more accessible than locations closer to Leeds . |
| 17 | The duty of loyalty has generally been invoked to prevent directors from having a personal financial interest in a decision , whilst the duty to act not for any improper purpose has sometimes been invoked to rule out decisions where directors have some other sort of personal but not directly financial interest in the decision . |
| 18 | The madrigal was polyphonic but not purely polyphonic . |
| 19 | In fact , in so far as one can detect a firm line in his early Algerian policy , it was a policy which aimed to achieve association — i.e. cooperation between France and a more autonomous but not fully independent Algeria . |
| 20 | Some of the stories and images of the gospel are literally true ( the incarnation and the resurrection , for example ) while other stories are real but not necessarily–literally true . |
| 21 | Arguments for controlling or reducing the size of public expenditure are wide-ranging but not always convincing . |
| 22 | This passed and on 6 August the first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima , killing outright some 80 000 people and exposing many thousands more to the longer-term but not less deadly effects of radiation . |
| 23 | Pickup selection is via a toggle switch mounted on the upper wing' , towards the neck of the guitar , which is an unusual but not wholly impractical place for it . |
| 24 | The course of events was often confused but not essentially dissimilar on most of these occasions . |
| 25 | Elsie was amiable but not very bright , and now her brother was in prison , she was in a bad way financially . |
| 26 | Relations with the army are tense but not openly violent . |
| 27 | The southern aspect is dominated by Pegasus , which is large but not so bright as might be thought from its aspect on the maps . |
| 28 | Erm it 's valuable but not that valuable . |
| 29 | In part this dramatic result reflected a widespread but not necessarily dependable willingness to give the Republic a chance , in part the temporary demoralization and organizational unpreparedness of the anti- and non-republican right , whose fifty or so deputies seriously under-represented its true strength and potential . |
| 30 | The obvious but not very informative reply is : because we want to subject activities of governmental agencies to a different legal regime from that which regulates the activities of private individuals . |