Example sentences of "[adv] but [adv] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Major keeps his elbows on the table , and claps his fingers together but not the base of his hands , which makes him look rather like a seal . |
| 2 | It was n't said that there were cells that actually corresponded to those features , not but nonetheless the output from the system could be thought of as a feature detection system . |
| 3 | Armstrong replied , in a later number of the same journal , that it is simply an empirical fact about our proprioceptive powers that we are able to perceive the heat of our hand directly but not the roughness of its surface . |
| 4 | Slowly but surely the mass of bodies was yielding … soon it would be forced out into the drawing-room like the cork out of a bottle of champagne . |
| 5 | If he is to be totally unbiased when making his observations , then he will be obliged to record not only the readings on various meters , the presence or absence of sparks at various critical locations in the electrical circuits , the dimensions of the circuit etc. but also the colour of the meters , the dimensions of the laboratory , the state of the weather , the size of his shoes and a whole host of ‘ clearly irrelevant ’ details , irrelevant , that is , to the kind of theory in which Hertz was interested and which he was testing . |
| 6 | Right but definitely the death in service . |
| 7 | Sunny at first tomorrow but then the forecast for the rest of Tuesday , More showers expected . |
| 8 | Sunny spells for tomorrow but still a chance with showers . |