Example sentences of "but also [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Smyth said Williams worked as a leisure professional but also served as a Special Constable and was hoping to become a police officer in the future . |
| 2 | Jean Bevan , the second of these two , had a middle-class previous occupation nursing — but also lived in a working-class area . |
| 3 | During waking life primary process thinking is displaced during the child 's development by secondary process thinking , and in the adult it remains as a neurotic symptom , most clearly during dreaming , but also operating at a subconscious level to influence waking behaviour . |
| 4 | Alternatively , the speaker can use a summarising phrase , often repeating the introductory expression , not necessarily low in pitch , but also followed by a lengthy pause . |
| 5 | The syntax defined by the Guidelines not only formalizes the way in which such features are encoded , but also provides for a detailed specification of legal feature value/pair combinations and rules determining , for example , the implication of under-specified or defaulted features . |
| 6 | He was not only able to make most of his subjects feel proud of being Italians but also succeeded to a great extent in making them believe that his great dream of giving Italy an important place in the world , as important as that of Britain and France , could become a reality . |
| 7 | Practolol and benoxaprofen show , however , that such a cosy partnership not only can not stand the strain of a disaster , but also leads to a complete paralysis of action in the resultant crisis . |
| 8 | The other two teams were line managed by their local Area Directors , but also worked through a Senior Professional Officer for some purposes . |
| 9 | Culpeper was famous for his optical instruments , especially microscopes , but also known for a wide variety of mathematical instruments in silver , brass , ivory , and wood , although it is difficult to determine at what point he moved from being a maker to a retailer . |
| 10 | In the second appeal , counsel thought it might have been relevant that the accused was shown not only to be the possessor of a deep , gruff voice , but also to hail from a working-class area of Dublin . |
| 11 | First , a significant element of research is not only funded by the government , or quasi-governmental agencies , but also organized on a customer-contract basis . |