Example sentences of "but [adv] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And your , your whole face is a bit puffed , but mostly round about there . |
| 2 | Lyon will be alright then the might be all right but right over on the Italian branch it might be all right mmm yes |
| 3 | The novelist is now of course in middle age , but right back in his teens he wrote to his brother ‘ Man is a mystery ’ , adding that a lifetime spent trying to unravel the mystery would not be wasted . |
| 4 | But right out of his real self . |
| 5 | Surface states are neither in the conduction band ( i.e. free , and able to conduct electricity ) nor in the valence band ( busy keeping the crystal structure together ) , but somewhere in between . |
| 6 | Claud Lorrain sometimes painted that celestial luminary in his pictures , but , if not , the sun was but little out of it — a choice generally to be preferred to all others . ’ |
| 7 | It was slightly damp not in patches but all over as if it had been soaked in water then wrung out and left to dry through the night . |
| 8 | The arts and culture of Renaissance Florence , are undoubtedly the region 's chief attractions , and the city is less than 10 miles away , but all around , the rolling countryside is quite superb , offering some wonderful rural drives amidst olive groves and vineyards . |
| 9 | ( ii ) Second reading In his discussions with the Leader of the House relating to the Bill , the Minister will have arranged for certain times ( usually a day or two , but perhaps up to eight days ) to have been set aside for the second reading debate . |
| 10 | Despite the striving for the autonomy or consumption activities , resulting in an exaggerated separation from business interests , in some respects Bourdieu 's major source of analogy tends to fall back , not on to an economic , but perhaps on to an economistic model . |
| 11 | At the surface these cracks may remain open and empty , forming deep clefts , but deeper down , magma forces its way up into the crack , widening it considerably by hydraulically wedging the walls apart . |
| 12 | Also in residence , but apparently out when the police arrived , was Mrs Dyer 's daughter , Polly , and her daughter , only a baby . |
| 13 | One of them , drawn from metropolitan Dublin , laced the scandal with a smile and simply blamed the Svengalian influence of Dr Kavanagh ; the other , more parochial , gives the impression of a little country funeral spinning quietly but inexorably out of control . |
| 14 | Then , as the rain cleared , the moon shone out to reveal what they had feared : one hundred and thirty tall-masted galleons , in perfect crescent formation , sailed slowly but purposefully up the channel coast . |
| 15 | With great courage she fought her way past Forgive 'N Forget , but halfway up the run-in Wayward Lad was still two lengths up . |
| 16 | But halfway through , in a confusing volte-face , Sarastro turns out to represent the forces of good , and the Queen of the Night those of darkness and evil . |
| 17 | But only over here — not over there . |
| 18 | But only up to a point , you see . |
| 19 | There they were brought up by angels , but only up to the ideal age : |
| 20 | McFarlane took it to heart also , but only up to a point . |
| 21 | Burton 's local fame grew in contradicting this up to a point — but only up to a point . |
| 22 | the person named can then write in the figures , but only up to the amount stated . |
| 23 | The three businessmen-politicians can be lumped together , but only up to a point . |
| 24 | Productivity increases as we spend more time and energy , but only up to a critical point . |
| 25 | The answer is , yes it is , but only up to a point . |
| 26 | It is possible to assemble total estimates of public-sector employment by region and county , but only up to 1987 . |
| 27 | But only up to a point . |
| 28 | He put it best , perhaps , when he said that the writer must wade into life as into the sea , but only up to the navel . |
| 29 | The new Arrangements are very similar to the 1988 Scheme , the main , and welcome , change being the removal of the lower tier in what had previously been a two-tier system for remuneration for advice at police stations : a solicitor could undertake up to £90 of work , extendable retrospectively , where the client was in custody for an arrestable offence , but only up to £50 ( non-extendable ) otherwise . |
| 30 | That is true , but only up to a point ; I have found the procedures laborious at times but usually vital , and SCOTVEC 's full-time officers invariably helpful and cheery . |