Example sentences of "but [adv] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | West Venture was acquired in March 1988 but only began to make significant sales this year . |
| 2 | Below right : ATS of 1963 was born out of a Ferrari breakaway group but only managed to finish one race |
| 3 | Schools in Lothian have been asked to commence Testing in the summer term but only have to test one group in each class in either Language or Mathematics , if that class has a group which is deemed to be moving from one stage to the next . |
| 4 | After Wilfrid 's eventual return north , although Christianity stayed in Sussex it seems to have formed one of the less distinguished and lively dioceses of the English church , closely tied to the features and experience of the county generally but not emerging to direct secular life . |
| 5 | It may be Africa , and life may be cheap by comparison with that in the Western world , but just try to imagine this happening at Twickenham or Cardiff Arms Park : as the car park revelry goes on late into the night a youth slips into an official marquee and steals some equipment from it . |
| 6 | It is an old but still neglected adage that doubt is not the opposite of faith but of certainty . |
| 7 | If you do not have much dressmaking ability but still want to make this type of use of the woven material produced by your knitting machine , you could well turn to the diagrams that most machine knitting patterns supply . |
| 8 | They are said to be generally positive to the takeover but still need to achieve certain comfort levels . |
| 9 | Equity markets recoiled from these gloomy indicators by falling sharply at the beginning of the week , pausing only for the Chancellor 's speech at the Tory Party conference , but still failing to recover lost ground by the close . |
| 10 | This case merited only a six-inch column in one newspaper , but probably failed to get widespread coverage on several grounds : the case was held outside London ( in Manchester ) and the case was not contested . |
| 11 | Wilson felt only dimly aware of Miss Blagden 's kindness but later came to realise this sign and evidence of human concern had most probably saved her that time from real madness . |
| 12 | They were based on textbook questions , some almost as printed , but slightly altered to make political points . |
| 13 | In the first months of Kennedy 's presidency the United States not only undertook a substantial arms build up , but also began to float new ideas in strategic doctrine , most notably Maxwell Taylor 's theory of flexible response . |
| 14 | In the 1920s Pearson resumed his acting career but also began publishing short stories , essays , and journalism . |
| 15 | I ONCE asked Ross Clarke-Jones — a laconic Australian who was on the Tour but also liked to surf big Waimea — which would be his ultimate experience : a big wave or a tube ? |
| 16 | If the proposed partition led to fighting , the Arabs who were bereft of any coherent leadership ( the Mufti and other Palestinian leaders had been exiled since 1939 ) , would depend wholly on the armies of their Arab neighbours , of which Abdallah 's was not only unquestionably the best but also stood to capture most territory . |
| 17 | He plays central defender at Lyn but also have played some games up front — he has played wide back , midfielder and attacker on our national team . |
| 18 | Many church buildings are so austere and fortress-like from the exterior that the visitor not only has to pluck up a great deal of courage , but also has to exert considerable effort to force open the creaking , heavy door . |
| 19 | To be a bourgeois was not merely to be superior , but also to have demonstrated moral qualities equivalent to the old puritan ones . |
| 20 | Trade ministers from the EC , Canada , Japan and the USA , at an informal meeting in Urabandai , Japan , on April 25 , were said by Japan 's International Trade and Industry Minister , Kozo Watanabe , to have agreed on the urgency of resolving the impasse , but also failed to announce any breakthrough . |
| 21 | Morton 's controversial final chapter is only a few thousand words long and attempts to sum up the marriage now but TODAY has discovered new revelations showing how close Diana came to walking out — and still might . |
| 22 | However , the effect of ss 6 and 7 goes further because their wording is also wide enough to regulate contracts which permit the inclusion of such warranties , but then seek to nullify that inclusion by excluding liability for breach of the warranties so included . |
| 23 | Ethernet networking comes from Xerox , a company which is famous for developing significant advances in personal computing , but then failing to take commercial advantage of them . |
| 24 | He admits to being surprised at the split attitudes of middle-aged men — and even some of the younger ones — who want their daughters to have a proper career structure but then fail to apply that belief at work . |
| 25 | The three climbers who originally passed the message to them were eventually traced , and confirmed that not only had they informed the Guardia Civil in person on the 21st , but afterwards had phoned each day to see if Jeremy had been found . |
| 26 | , using the word ‘ honourable ’ with a hint of irony , but hurriedly appears to correct any impression that he is opposing Brutus in case he had gone too far . |
| 27 | At the south-western corner of the city walls two smaller castles were built , Baynard 's and Mountfichet , but never allowed to become great fortresses ; and they were finally removed from this strategic place by Edward I in the late thirteenth century : by a king whose mighty works at the Tower mirrored his determination to keep the Londoners under firm control ; but who greatly expanded the western end and formed a large new enclosure there for the Dominican friars , who could help him to ensure that no hostile presence met him when he came from Westminster to the City . |
| 28 | But half agreed to tolerate split infinitives — as in Startrek 's ‘ to boldly go ’ . |