Example sentences of "but [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jacques 's flute method , compositions and instrument were not only characteristic of the early Baroque flute but elegantly expressed its aesthetic virtually to perfection . |
| 2 | Pointless , of course , but elegantly done . |
| 3 | The furnishings did not look new , but elegantly worn and homely . |
| 4 | But luckily help was at hand in the person of Anna-Lisa Hammer , a blonde , Norwegian freelance journalist who was also the Press Officer for the Bislet Games in Oslo . |
| 5 | But the famous scene of greedy eating in Tom Jones ( 1963 ) , in which Tom ( Albert Finney ) and Mrs Waters , aka Jenny Jones ( Joyce Redman ) — who may be his mother but luckily turns out not to be — rush through a huge meal in order to get to bed and ‘ devour ’ each other , actually replaces the sex scene which it appears to be prefacing . |
| 6 | It was very warm for Kirkistown and I lost concentration half way through , but luckily got it back together before the end . ’ |
| 7 | It was very warm for Kirkistown and I lost concentration half way through , but luckily got it back together before the end . ’ |
| 8 | She was about to kick it aside , but luckily glanced up to see Luch 's watchful eye on her . |
| 9 | Innocent did not associate Philip with the murder , but relentlessly sought the true murderers who were finally brought to justice in Rome in April 1203 and sent to the Holy Land . |
| 10 | During the American War of Independence ( 1775–82 ) British troops were besieged for three weeks in the autumn of 1779 in Savannah , Georgia , by French and American troops , but successfully repulsed the attack . |
| 11 | At an earlier hearing , defence solicitor Colin Nott failed in a bid to have the ban lifted , but successfully appealed at the High Court the next day to have the bail condition lifted so his client could see the baby under supervision . |
| 12 | In terms of an automatic ‘ welfare consensus ’ , the social contours of British society have been altered irrevocably , partly by the Thatcher revolution , partly by deeper economic trends , which Thatcherism did not create but successfully harnessed to its political project . |
| 13 | The 1969 Children and Young Persons Act had aimed to divert them from custody and care , but paradoxically had managed to draw increased numbers of youngsters into both systems . |
| 14 | Two completely anonymous respondents agreed with this view of overall high-quality work , one confidently but paradoxically remarking that the firm would not have been hired otherwise ! |
| 15 | She willed him to continue , but instinctively needed him to stop . |
| 16 | What the quarto labels ‘ the First SONG ’ runs right through from ‘ Come all ye songsters ’ to ‘ Sing while we trip it ’ Purcell divided this into no fewer than five separate numbers : the countertenor solo ‘ Come all ye songsters ’ ; the trio ‘ May the god of wit inspire ’ — without the chorus repeat specified in the quarto , but duly followed by what it labels ‘ a Composition of Instrumental Musick , in imitation of an Eccho ’ ; a chorus which , instead of repeating ‘ May the god of wit ’ , sets the first line of the second stanza , ‘ Now join your warbling voices all ’ ; and finally a solo , ‘ Sing while we trip it ’ , this time with the specified chorus repeat . |
| 17 | It will be better for the APB to issue a delayed but duly considered SAS , rather than one that meets an early deadline but does not adequately address all the issues involved . |
| 18 | This practice of marking searches , requisitions , etc , should be an invariable one for three reasons : ( 1 ) it compels you to consider each question and reply before marking it ; ( 2 ) it will save your time in selecting answers that require further action , and will avoid your reading through the enquiries again later on to make sure that the replies to them are in order ; and ( 3 ) it is a permanent record that at the time of the transaction you not only made your search , etc , but duly considered and dealt with the replies . |
| 19 | Now , his songs are intended as the real thing , but widely assumed to be some sort of parody . |
| 20 | A curiosity in Enescu 's output is the way that he sometimes bracketed under the same opus number works of the same genre but widely separated in time : the two Op. 24 piano sonatas of 1924 and 1935 , for example ( the latter in fact called No. 3 , since the composer confessed that No. 2 existed only in his head and was never written down ) , or the more extreme case of the two Op. 26 cello sonatas of 1898 and 1935 . |
| 21 | The ventral arm plates are longer than wide with concave lateral edges and an indented distal edge , they are almost contiguous proximally but widely separated distally . |
| 22 | Another of his treasures , the seventh volume of Gaud Maybellome 's Encyclopaedia of Heavenly Signs , originally written in the language of Third Dominion academics but widely translated for the delectation of the proletariat , he 'd bought from a woman in the city of Jassick , who 'd approached him in a gaming room where he was attempting to explain cricket to a group of the locals , and said she recognized him from stories her husband ( who was in the Autarch 's army in Yzordderrex ) had told . |
| 23 | However , they know that your Company is not a lame duck , but widely described as one of the best managed in the industry . |
| 24 | An unpublished but widely quoted UN International Civil Aviation Organization report of May 1989 referred to the involvement of the Vincennes in a series of provocative incidents in the Gulf before and after the Iranian incident . |
| 25 | First , those who have a political interest to pursue will not in fact always do so , for example consumers , who are numerous but widely distributed , generally have never organized themselves as effectively or as efficiently as producers , who are much fewer in number but already have a business organization able to be adapted for political purposes . |
| 26 | This depressing but widely held view of life in old age is the foundation upon which judgements are made about individual worth . |
| 27 | Again Yorkshire and Humberside er Scotland and Wales tending to lead that erm all of them as I said have got strong output trends erm in terms of Yorkshire and Humberside the orders er seem to be very much domestic rather than export but widely spread between sectors which gives |
| 28 | This reinforced findings reported elsewhere that Motorways are wrongly but widely thought to be the most dangerous type of road . |
| 29 | He shook his head , but gamely decided to make a stab at it . |
| 30 | Maybe this is all that is needed to re-ignite calls for a review of the welfare benefits which single parents receive — a review actually under way earlier this year , but thankfully kicked into touch by Tony Newton when he took over from the hapless John Moore as Social Security Secretary last Summer . |