Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] but [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , status may form the basis of political power — Weber saw this as especially relevant in the case of the German Junker aristocracy , who were economically weak but still held the reins of political power . |
| 2 | As they came back into the City , buses had to slow almost to a halt to safely make the turn into Winchester Street ; it was not only steep but also had a tricky camber . |
| 3 | Other communities , less diagnostic but equally representing the tundra , occur in less optimal conditions . |
| 4 | The objection that Foucault neglects history because he does not attempt to give reasons why the epistemic shifts he describes occurred is perhaps inevitable but also begs the question : for conventional historiography has in general done nothing but account for such shifts — which has meant that it has consistently failed to recognize alterity and incommensurability in its insistent search for continuities with the past . |
| 5 | As I 've said , these regulations are apparently complex but merely affect a simple extension of rights to vote and candidacy in conformity with our treaty obligations and I hope that the house will approve these too . |
| 6 | There is concern , however , that providing separate , specially labelled services which only mentally disordered people can use is not only extremely expensive but also encourages a discriminating attitude towards already stigmatized people . |
| 7 | He 's not orthodox but clearly has a good technique because he scores runs on bad pitches . ’ |
| 8 | Marathon leader , Britain 's Francis Tuthill was more cautious but still spun the Porsche twice and was passed once on a stage by second-placed Australian Ian Vaughan ( Ford Falcon ) . |
| 9 | The Milan Congress not only severely retarded the development of generations of deaf children for whom the Oral Method was totally inappropriate but also caused the loss of hundreds of teaching jobs held by deaf people throughout the world in schools for the deaf . |
| 10 | SLIGHTLY tired but spiritually refreshed a group from Middlesbrough area returned at the end of October from a memorable series of visits . |
| 11 | For feminists to see all men as ‘ potential rapists ’ is not only grossly simplistic but also denies the specificity of crime and criminal , as well as women 's own potential ( suppressed into depression , self-hatred , and inertia ) to be aggressive and violent , to abuse , batter , and murder — and to consume pornography . |
| 12 | The PC-based IPA is now available but still needs a PC with an extended working memory of 4 Megabytes . |
| 13 | At the same time as our launching of Youth Leagues , we identified volleyball as a growth sport which was not only visually exciting but also had a good , clean image . |
| 14 | Such people , in his and Val 's world , were not quite real but still walked the earth . |
| 15 | This gives an advantage over conventional 100Hz ripple-smoothing filters used in linear power systems in that the values of both L and C can be relatively small but still provide a high a.c. ripple reduction . |
| 16 | Embalming a monarch allowed for public examination of the corpse , not only to prove to all and sundry that the monarch was indeed dead but also to let the rightful heir be acclaimed and to deter any pretenders . |
| 17 | He was over seventy but still ran the smallholding single-handed . |
| 18 | It is now most fashionable but once housed the poor . |
| 19 | Which would be to make them more dynamic , occasionally broader but always keeping the inner life of each woman as real and as simple as Joyce would herself have wanted . |
| 20 | I will be very brief but just to welcome the fact that in we have been waiting for nearly fifty years |
| 21 | Two Winslow Homers , an oil and a watercolour , were both somewhat problematic : ‘ The unruly calf ’ , from the Pauline Woolworth Trust , showing a boy trying to coax a tethered calf to move ( lot 36 est. $1–1.5 million ) was very flat but still found a private buyer at $1.1 million ( £687,500 ) . |
| 22 | The setting is scenically very beautiful but also provides a very convenient base for those who are keen to explore this region as a whole — the ‘ League of Chianti ’ is all around and we can most particularly recommend Radda , the League 's ancient capital , which is within easy reach . |
| 23 | Right , what made we want to be , I wanted to be a policeman when I was very young but never had the courage to do it . |