Example sentences of "but [adv] [adv] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not as if there was a competition involved , or any tie-breaker , but rather just a sales promotion . |
| 2 | Erm , and so on , so , so , so this was the , this was the , er this is what I was trying to do , try and contrast the use of psychoanalysis in , in biography , from character assassination on one hand , to hagiography at the other , and with Freud 's Woodrow Wilson somewhere in , in between , but perhaps nearer the character assassination end , because erm , neither of them , er neither of the authors were , really had , had much of a brief of Woodrow Wilson . |
| 3 | Plants like these are very likely to have been among the earliest forms to colonise the moist margins of the land , but so far no fossil relics of undoubted mosses have been discovered from this early period . |
| 4 | But so far the work force of 330 white collar staff have shown no sign of militant action . |
| 5 | Rhodes could well become a double international as he is in the South African national hockey squad , but so far the hockey union has n't followed cricket down the integration path and cricket at the moment takes first place on his agenda . |
| 6 | Then , as the rain cleared , the moon shone out to reveal what they had feared : one hundred and thirty tall-masted galleons , in perfect crescent formation , sailed slowly but purposefully up the channel coast . |
| 7 | With great courage she fought her way past Forgive 'N Forget , but halfway up the run-in Wayward Lad was still two lengths up . |
| 8 | The ranch , Ol Ari Nyiro , is run as a commercial livestock enterprise supported by several thousand acres of arable agriculture , but only where the land permits . |
| 9 | The extra keyboard facilities include both Delete and Edit keys and a numeric keypad but once again the Break function is n't labelled . |
| 10 | But what it correlates with is not a gender role but more specifically a child-rearing role . |
| 11 | Oxford could be reached by boats of similar size , but further up the Thames cargoes were taken over by " lightening " boats . |
| 12 | Thus the operation code field is decoded to specify , not only what operation is to be performed , but also how the bit pattern of the remainder of the instruction is to be interpreted . |
| 13 | The statutory weekly bath was usually evaded , but about once a fortnight Mr Sugden grudgingly produced a papier-mâché moon-bath . |
| 14 | But now even the deaths column was exhausted . |
| 15 | Other spellings — Kyese , Keise , Keese — are known to have been recorded in the shires of Gloucester , Worcester and Hereford during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , but today only the style Keyse is found in that area , and Kease appears nowhere except in the author 's own ancestral bloodline . |
| 16 | Belgium is the third highest consumer of beef in the EEC ( nearly 24kg per capita ) but well down the production list at 336,000 tonnes per annum . |
| 17 | The only gloom was on jobs , but even here the Treasury report pointed out that January 's rise in unemployment , which took the toll above three million , was the smallest seasonally-adjusted rise for seven months . |
| 18 | Due to higher utilisation , overheads in the USA should be lower , but even so the profit margins seem thin and leave little room for error . |
| 19 | But even then the East End of London could not have represented the rest of the country ; and even he plays for our pity , opening with a classic portrait of poverty and deprivation . |
| 20 | But here too the garbage professionals are moving in . |
| 21 | The sapiential authority to advise , instruct and direct ; the moral authority that makes its acceptance not just useful but obligatory ; and its charismatic authority that allows the professional to appeal to some supreme interest of his client that not only outranks conscience but sometimes even the raison d'état ( 1977 , pp.17–18 , emphasis added ; see also 1975 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ I loved the song , and I think it should have been a hit , but there again the record company did nothing to promote it . |
| 23 | Meetings of these Anonymous Fellowships can be described but precisely why the process works is not known in scientific terms . |
| 24 | I did n't know , but then suddenly the street lights come on . |
| 25 | Yet at Stamford , thirty miles away , not an industrial town but indeed always a market town for a very rich countryside , the market place has shrunk to a fraction of its original size . |
| 26 | The earliest extensions or additions may be discreetly sited and carefully designed , but very quickly the hut syndrome is underway and the house is rapidly surrounded by one- or two-storey flat-roofed extensions of the very utilitarian kind mercilessly caricatured by Osbert Lancaster . |
| 27 | How To Speak Hooray A language that 's beyond the ken of most people but certainly not the South Ken of the braying buffoon |