Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [adv] [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't really know her breeding , but she clearly has some Arab in her and has a soft thin coat . |
| 2 | Her long face , with thick eyebrows , is that of a pleasant and ever-so-slightly bored horse , but she also has long legs , and no bottom to speak of , and wears her hair long , straight and black to her shoulders . |
| 3 | hon. Friend the Member for Hexham ( Mr. Amos ) immediately in front of me , I should have welcomed equally the presence of the attractive blonde lady who was sitting in front of me last week , but she obviously has other things to do this week . |
| 4 | She still likes pop music , especially the singers and groups she grew up with , like Neil Diamond , Dire Straits and Duran Duran , and thoroughly enjoys the rock concerts she attends , but she now finds classical music more soothing to read and work to . |
| 5 | Its champion , Countess Araminta , is conceived as a woman of the calibre of Hilda von Einem in Greenmantle but she never fulfils this introduction , while Mastrovin , that ‘ survivor of old black days ’ , is helpless against the common sense of McCunn and the elementary cunning of the diplomat Archie Roylance . |
| 6 | But he also likes this method because it appears that the famine is caused by the Irish themselves as a result of their lack of husbandry ( which confirms their savagery ) and , thus , appears a natural reward of their refusal to accept the civility of English rule . |
| 7 | I do n't know what the financial arrangements are but he has a double role , he attends the classes but he also does spinal manipulation and massage for those of Brand 's clients who need it or say they do . ’ |
| 8 | Not only is he generally responsible for the system but he also receives all appeals from refusals of permission , and has the power to call in any application for decision by himself rather than leave it with the district council . |
| 9 | Mr Komarek may have some influential friends , but he also faces powerful enemies . |
| 10 | But he also includes strophic arias , sometimes with varied strophes ( e.g. ‘ Ard ’ il mio petto ’ ) , and canzonette a ballo in which the singer is to attend only to ‘ la vivezza del canto ’ . |
| 11 | But he hardly dismisses experiential knowledge out of hand . |
| 12 | A Goblin Big Boss may have a leadership of only 6 , but he still has 2 wounds and 3 attacks , can carry two magic items and costs only 33 points . |
| 13 | Coe tells me that he was attracted to writing some kind of thriller because it would help him tighten up his plotting , but he still has some way to go ; the book 's resolution is simply too arbitrary and fanatical . |
| 14 | ‘ David has done a great job over the last few weeks but he still has playing ambitions . |
| 15 | IN THE PINK : Being a snooker star has given Joe a luxury lifestyle , but he still practises six hours a day at his local club |
| 16 | She 's mentioned frequently but he never gives any clue as to who she is or the nature of their relationship . ’ |
| 17 | Maisy was a spinster , and appreciated cider almost as much as Sooty ‘ Silly old bugger , ’ muttered Knocker , ‘ but he never makes any trouble , so what can I do ? ’ |
| 18 | This species grows quite large in the wild at up to 20cm , but it rarely achieves such proportions in the aquarium . |
| 19 | But it rarely happens that way . |
| 20 | Not only does this result in uncertainty about the future of projects funded through Making Belfast Work but it also creates inter-departmental friction and runs counter to the findings of the government scrutiny report of funding of voluntary agencies , which said funding should be tied to departmental objectives . |
| 21 | It does a thorough job of not only testing each part of the hard disk but it also saves any data on the disk while doing so by reading all usable tracks into memory before reformatting the track and then writing it to disk again in the same place — provided it was usable . |
| 22 | We hear thunder when it is close enough for its highest frequencies to reach us , but it also generates infrasonic sounds which travel much further . |
| 23 | This may be home to Mercedes , Bosch , Kodak and Porsche to name but four , but it also offers endless greenery from the banks of the winding Neckar to the baroque palace in the historic heart of the city . |
| 24 | ‘ But it also advocates extreme cruelty against animals as a matter of imperial policy , in order to dismay the enemy . |
| 25 | Theory does point to a clear suspicion that a lack of competition can , most certainly , lead to inefficiencies , but it also identifies possible benefits from the attainment of lower-cost production . |
| 26 | Any one network junction has topological neighbours , that is , junctions connected to it along a common chain , but it also possesses spatial neighbour junctions — junctions which may in fact be nearer to it in the continuum space but which belong to other chains . |
| 27 | Not only does this ignore a whole aspect of local state activity — that which opposes the centre — but it also reduces social relations between active human agents to purely functional operations . |
| 28 | For Sumner , law embodies the appearance of reality produced by social relations , so that , for example , an employment contract appears as a consensual contract between equals ( a point also made by Hunt ) , but it also embodies those appearances as they have been seen and interpreted by classes and groups who make laws . |
| 29 | This is an important aspect of the process of developing a school 's strategy of in-service education but it also enables other parties to share in the awareness of what has been achieved and what needs improvement . |
| 30 | Ice is the greatest worry that a pool owner has during winter months , for not only does it trap noxious gases which are likely to suffocate the fish , but it also exerts tremendous pressure upon the pool structure and can crack the most expertly laid concrete . |