Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [adj] but [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet years on how come that it is Cecil who is regarded mostly as a flawed but well meaning sweety-pie and Miss Keays as someone who has all the charisma of an old battleaxe ? |
| 2 | When the twelfth-century bard , Cynddelw , recalled ‘ the clash of Powys … with Oswald ’ , he was looking back on an episode which had considerable significance not only for the Welsh but also for the Mercians . |
| 3 | Suffice to suggest that the ego -experienced world of the Sonnets , despite the enormous time devoted to the Thou , creates what is essentially a single vision , a self-dedication to the other , which in effect results in an exposure and analysis , not only of the other but also of the self . |
| 4 | As Young ( 1986 ) has pointed out , we seem to be left only with the practical but extremely narrow focus of the new ‘ administrative ’ criminologists , or the unexamined , taken-for-granted ( and contradictory ) explanations of ‘ left idealism ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ Discuss , with reference to at least two plays , how tragedy can be enacted not only upon the individual but also upon a family ’ |
| 6 | It must be regarded as extremely probable that Oswiu was able to seek help in the confrontation with Penda not only from the Scots but also from the Picts , possibly even from the Irish ( see also below , p. 99 ) . |
| 7 | Physical disability makes shopping difficult , and sometimes forces the elderly to rely entirely on the good but fairly limited range of foods that can be delivered to their door by the milkman . |
| 8 | Then , not of a sudden but slowly , there crept through his being the most odd feeling : his stomach began to tremble , as if his bowels had become loose in their casing . |
| 9 | So the first thing you 'd expect on just by the false but enormously appealing principle that the world is simple and elegant , is there is just one level of structure there . |
| 10 | This is not supposed to suggest that events can not be said to occur straightforwardly in the real but rather that when set up in any series , narrative , or history they are constructed as such events retrospectively by the historian . |
| 11 | Minutes later she was being ushered out of the small but clinically precise kitchenette , and invited to take a seat on one of the chesterfields as he placed a tray containing two bone-china coffee-mugs , milk and sugar on the glass-topped table between them . |
| 12 | The car has been through several variations of engine size , but now like an ageing but still beautiful dowager , repeated facelifts can no longer wholly hide the ravages of time and progress . ’ |
| 13 | He had successfully led the School from the dark days of war , through a time of austerity thereafter , and on to the easier but still challenging years of the 1950s . |
| 14 | The breed originated from the Jutland Black Pied , which was known a century ago as a hardier but less productive type of the black pied lowland group and had been bred in Denmark for a very long time . |
| 15 | Sterling issues expanded dramatically in the 1980s but increasingly in the form of eurosterling bonds and Table 3.8 shows the important share that such bonds now have in the total sterling bond market . |
| 16 | To be more accurate , while Norah Docker sought the cameramen Sir Bernard hung about like a good-natured but rather dim St Bernard dog providing the money for her extravagance . |
| 17 | Their small mission accomplished , Tennyson and Hallam sank back to being tourists , and Tennyson never forgot the scenery around Cauterets , which he associated for the rest of his long life with the happiness he had felt when travelling there with the beloved but now dead Hallam . |
| 18 | A third small group is encountered near the beginning , in a Florida town ( along with the alligator ) , moving about in a desultory but slightly menacing way . |
| 19 | I do n't want to speak ill of the dead but as far as the work was concerned I have to say that he wo n't be missed . ’ |