Example sentences of "[adv] but [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While he made his way swiftly but lightly across the boggy ground , giving his feet no time to be drawn down , the men higher up the bank were fastening the rest of the horses to the leash . |
| 2 | Official figures for manufacturing show a capital stock that increased gently but persistently throughout the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 3 | Such a formidable enlargement of business and records entailed a corresponding increase not only in the responsible officers listed above but also among the common clerks who wrote and shelved the records . |
| 4 | Lamborghini was still producing the 350GT , an interesting car technically but not in the front line of design innovation . |
| 5 | The number of day hospitals run by health services and day centres provided by local authorities and voluntary organizations has grown slowly but steadily over the last forty years , although there remains a great deal of confusion about the purposes of day care , and professionals from different services have differing expectations and aims . |
| 6 | The following table is a record of all limited-overs internationals since but not including the 1987 World Cup . |
| 7 | However , the extent of the command in the Great Commission is not simply the spread of the gospel outwards territorially but down through the cultural layers . |
| 8 | The German guns then opened up but not to the same extent . |
| 9 | She waddled cautiously across the living-room , glaring imperiously but ineffectively at the slopping water glasses . |
| 10 | Fourthly , this test would mean that there was no remedy under the Act in respect of a transaction with an overseas company , or a foreigner living here but abroad at the crucial moment , even if the subject matter was English land . |
| 11 | And then but also with the poor peasants I mean you , you 've given them a , enough land so that they , they still ca n't meet subsistence , given them some land but not enough , but you know because they 're resourceful and they 've got other things that they , they do n't need to have enough land to give subsistence , they 'd rather go and do something else and make it up . |
| 12 | Or something perhaps … moving through space forwards but back at the same time , as if I consisted of anti-matter for ever cancelled out … as if in all our words and gestures , acts and attitudes we effected some sort of parallel penetration into whatever had originated them , their primeval atom , with built-in unstableness. ( 107–108/303–4 ) |
| 13 | They drove speedily but safely along the main road that headed west through the mountainous inner regions of the island , skirting villages where black-shawled women sat in doorways , past almond groves and fields full of woolly black goats . |