Example sentences of "but only [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I protested , but only weakly ; I was hysterical , and , I suppose , rather excited too : even when he had me down on the floor , jammed in an uncomfortable position with my head stuck between the pedestal of the wash basin and a slimy floor cloth someone had left lying against the wall , I could still do nothing but laugh . |
| 2 | In a fifth , B antigen was expressed strongly in the descending colon , but only weakly in the splenic flexure and the sigmoid colon which suggests that it might have been artefactual . |
| 3 | There 's a lot of bourgeois about him , she was thinking , but only mildly critical because of her now established respect for him . |
| 4 | Scott , a 45-year-old theatrical impresario , is the sort of man who does not ask why , but only why not . |
| 5 | But only over here — not over there . |
| 6 | But only temporarily : once he has displaced the other vis-à-vis the desired object , he loses interest . |
| 7 | To be sure , the general inconvenience of such a flight disrupts you and makes you tired , but only temporarily , so that there are no symptoms of jet-lag by the second day at your destination . |
| 8 | Ardeshir Zahedi also went , but only temporarily , to Switzerland . |
| 9 | CITY Of Derry are to lose the services of their star player Stephen Smyth — but only temporarily . |
| 10 | First , it is not always possible to test rational expectations per se , but only jointly with other , supplementary assumptions . |
| 11 | Unfortunately these constants could not be determined theoretically but only empirically , and eventually this proved to be an unsound basis . |
| 12 | This has effectively banished explicit work on religious concepts in most primary schools , because children in those age-groups are deemed unable to think in abstract terms , but only concretely . |
| 13 | It can still be said , he suggests , ‘ that there are some things capable of being known , though they are still not ones that can be known with an Aristotelian knowledge , but only experientially , or according to appearances ’ . |
| 14 | The WYSIWYG add-in goes a long way to helping you see how your masterpiece will eventually print out — but only approximately ( it 's pretty much like Windows 1-2-3 in that respect ! ) . |
| 15 | Consider as an example cases where a person ( but only exceptionally an institution ) is said to be an authority on a certain matter , as in ‘ John is an authority on Chinese cooking ’ or ‘ Ruth is an authority on the stock exchange ’ . |
| 16 | Sometimes people have reason to undertake them , but only exceptionally does one do wrong in not undertaking them . |
| 17 | But only internally do we know that . |
| 18 | His music often appears to be that of gesture rather than thought , he says , but only superficially . |
| 19 | The priest frowned and sighed , and then tried reasoning with the child , but only half-heartedly , his enthusiasm for this particular subject having long gone , so often had he had to cover this ground . |
| 20 | But only probably . |
| 21 | They must be fanned sometimes but only slowly . |
| 22 | This department was responsible for the eventual establishment of school clinics throughout the country , but only slowly and after considerable controversy . |
| 23 | She can hold a spoon and feed herself but only slowly and with spillage . |
| 24 | But only well we would get it buy it in bulk ourselves supplied by er Hamiltons of Glasgow |
| 25 | Again basically plastic and glass , with painted and sculpted detail , the full ( actually only three-sided ) model was 9 feet ( 2.75m ) at the base and 2 feet ( 75cm ) high , to represent a building some 1.7 miles ( 2.75km ) wide and 2500 feet ( 750m ) high , approaching 200 storeys in the middle ( this compares with the 110-storey twin blocks of the World Trade Centre in lower Manhattan ) — the Tyrell HQ is also doubled but only optically . |
| 26 | The English fyrd was used in the Danish wars , but only later , so far as we can tell , as a local militia in emergencies . |
| 27 | Emma Watt did not look shocked , but only tremendously sad . |
| 28 | The mainframe business has been affected , too , but only indirectly … so far . |
| 29 | We shall show this in an uncomplicated way in a diagram which illustrates the classification of words : In terms of this diagram , nouns , for example , contrast directly with adjectives , but only indirectly with prepositions . |
| 30 | Similarly , transitive verbs contrast directly with intransitive verbs , but only indirectly with adjectives . |