Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] but [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The elfin-faced Irish singer , just 18 but already on the threshold of success , had finally resolved on a reconciliation . |
| 2 | DUP Assemblyman Jim Wells was also present but apart from the DUP politicians , the only other leader who was present was George Seawright ( of whom more later ) . |
| 3 | The offence is committed not just by a trader who supplies consumer goods that are not reasonably safe but also by a trader who agrees or offers to supply them or exposes or possesses them for supply . |
| 4 | Such problems have led Neiss ( 1988 ) to conclude that the inverted-U relationship is probably true but only in the psychologically trivial sense that performance is impaired when the subject is either sleepy or facing an imminent external threat . |
| 5 | The staff are working as normal but only on a week-to-week basis . |
| 6 | But the old Gamoroi , the ‘ land-holders ’ , at Syracuse kept up their Dorian loyalties , occasionally sending numerically small but often in the event significant contributions to Sparta in her struggles at home in the fifth and fourth centuries ( see too p. 187 for the way the favour was returned ) . |
| 7 | the Chi the Chinese empire is , is actually growing but possibly in the sense that within Chinese territory marginal land that has n't previously been used for agriculture is being brought into use . |