Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] but [adv] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He recycled the wheels a few times but still the lights remained on . |
| 2 | However , that is exactly what happened on the 7th of September this year when Christy , 65 , from Kelburne Drive , was reunited not only with his British comrades but also the Germans he bravely fought against . |
| 3 | We could have chosen the three least vascular areas but then the counts would n't have been , would have been much more difficult . . |
| 4 | To this end they have collectively built up an enormous fund of local knowledge and experience , not just of the water and its peculiar hydrodynamics but also the sides of the gorge as well , things like the best portage routes , where to escape out of the gorge in an emergency , where and how close you can get with transport , nearest telephone , helicopter landing sites , etc , a sad spinoff of being on call for river search duties in the event of tragic emergency . |
| 5 | They all say there were no passionate affairs but occasionally the tempters must have been successful . |
| 6 | Newsflash — maximum ten lines but otherwise no rules . |
| 7 | It is helpful for the indexer to have an understanding not only of important concepts but also the relationships between concepts within the structure of a topic . |
| 8 | At a more abstract level the mathematician or scientist will perform manipulations within a set of symbols which follow certain rules but neither the symbols nor the rules need have direct representation in reality . |
| 9 | It is not only the Indians that divide life into two compartments but also the Buddhists . |