Example sentences of "a [adj] but [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | More surprising , and to Paviour more confounding and conciliating at the same time , was the presence of Gus Hambro , busy with a large clip-board , charting on squared paper the patch of ground to be taken up , and sketching a hurried but accurately proportioned elevation of the exposed vault of the flue . |
| 4 | The certificate of divorce was a simple but eventually abused means of effecting the divorce procedure . |
| 5 | She had chosen to wear a simple but beautifully styled full-length dress in pale amber crêpe-de-Chine , and because the evenings were decidedly more chilly now as the ship headed north she slipped the matching jacket over her bare shoulders . |
| 6 | On Fuar Tholl , Wilson and Niall freed the superb Tholl Gate in good condition at V. On Sgurr a'Chaorachian 's north-west buttresses , the chossy summer line Jupiter , a fine but rarely frozen 1200ft I/V , was climbed by Brian Davison and I. We also climbed Eastern Promise , a very steep but co-operative V on the eastern Ramparts of Coire Mhic Fhearchair and made the first ascent of the West-Central Wall by an even steeper line based on Mistral ( VI ) . |
| 7 | A basic but often misunderstood principle is that intelligence= information . |
| 8 | Spector Person ( 1980 ) , for instance , discusses pessimistically how sexuality is a culture-specific but highly determined and largely unconscious basis of identity . |
| 9 | There is a widespread but poorly substantiated belief that hysterectom yis associated with bowel problems , especially constipation and irritable bowel syndrome . |
| 10 | This is a deep but much discussed subject and I shall not go into it here but simply assume it . |
| 11 | For some , the Council was no more than a prudent but much misunderstood attempt to update a few relatively minor matters . |
| 12 | There is clearly a complex but poorly understood interaction between climatic change , vegetation dynamics , machair formation , sea-level rise , and human settlement in the Outer Hebrides that would repay further study ( Whittington and Ritchie , 1988 ) . |
| 13 | Wednesday was a day of interminable meetings , during which the split over unemployment benefit between MacDonald and a substantial but fluctuatingly composed group of his Cabinet began to assume its final form . |
| 14 | Preformationists held that there must be , in the egg , a miniature but perfectly formed adult : ‘ development ’ then consists merely of growth in size . |
| 15 | The three main streets of Penge , Croydon Road , Anerley Road and the High Street are of ample width , and while the two former are lined with Victorian houses , many of which are now , sadly in want of repair , Beckenham Road and the High Street form a compact but well appointed shopping centre , with street markets held in the adjoining Maple Road , and until the war Penge Empire Theatre . |
| 16 | The Group 's largest and longest established operation is in oil-rich Kuwait , a small but strategically placed country at the top of what used to be known as the Persian gulf — now politically just referred to as the gulf . |
| 17 | It has rear access to a small but easily maintained rear sunny garden . |
| 18 | Marlon Brando had a small but perfectly formed part as the detective who leaves town after being beaten up by three upstanding racist citizens . |
| 19 | One example was the development of the Liberty ship , a slow-moving but easily constructed freighter which in 1941 took 355 days to build . |
| 20 | I prefer to use a set of Indian bells — very small cymbals which produce a quiet but high pitched and very pure note which can be heard above all sorts of other noise . |
| 21 | Coming between the poetic neo-romanticism of the war years and the potentially overwhelming influence of American abstraction , theirs was a quiet but genuinely felt and observed art which shows its strength by continuing to flourish in its unsensational way . |
| 22 | Breakfast is served in the gentle atmosphere of the dining room with its panoramic views and an impressive mural by Marcus May , depicting Tresco complete with a naughty but much loved green parrot , until recently owned by the island 's landlord Mr Robert Dorrien Smith . |