Example sentences of "but [adv] at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | This deeper controversy sustains the debate between liberal interpretations of the modern law of contract , but paradoxically at the same time demonstrates its pointlessness . |
2 | She waddled cautiously across the living-room , glaring imperiously but ineffectively at the slopping water glasses . |
3 | I am prepared to argue that doing business involves , even at the lower levels in an organization but especially at the higher levels of management , semantic problem-solving ; for example , agreeing on boundaries , identifying individuals , establishing and maintaining classifications , conjecturing ways of doing things that belong in no existing formal schema . |
4 | The issue of such shares is treated as giving rise to an income tax liability on the recipient shareholder , but only at the higher rate of income tax . |
5 | Nature was given its due , but only at the southern tip of the marsh . |
6 | It was a representation , in effect , as to the future , namely , that payment of the rent would not be enforced at the full rate but only at the reduced rate . |
7 | There have been one or two double-handers but not at the highest level . |
8 | But not at the first interview . |
9 | The tobacco trade has become part of Gibraltar culture and is legal there , but not at the other end . |
10 | Michael Lynagh is still rattling along towards the four-figure mark but not at the same rate . |
11 | The other end of the bridle has to be tied in a similar way at the rear of the spine , but not at the very tip . |
12 | Sometimes a head-on collision with a lorry seems inevitable , but somehow at the last moment we or they swerve out of the way . |
13 | But somehow at the same time I am washing myself — I 'm trying to get the filth off myself . |
14 | Life had caught up with her , her job , her problems , but always at the very back of her mind the dream remained — Andalucía and a brilliant , handsome man on horseback , secret gardens with wrought-iron gates , fierce fighting bulls and beautiful Arab horses . |
15 | The other main formulation is the rule of acting in such a way that you treat humanity , whether in your own person or in the person of any other , never simply as a means , but always at the same time as an end . |
16 | We ought , he said , to ‘ treat humanity whether in your own person , or in the person of any other , never simply as a means , but always at the same time as an end ’ ( Kant , 1948 , para. 429 ) . |
17 | But the instructions were no more effective here than in the Ukraine , and , as we shall see , it was Georgia that came to sum up Lenin 's revulsion not only at the implementation of Party policy in the national field , but also at the general evolution of the Party . |
18 | Disquiet among supporters of the regime was to be found not only in the St Petersburg ministries but also at the imperial court and in the provinces . |
19 | She felt angry inside , not only at her father 's stupid bragging but also at the young man 's attitude towards him . |
20 | It took me some time to put the fantastic story of the Gauguin inheritance behind me — not out of my mind , but to the back of it , not only because I wondered if they might deteriorate , but also at the bizarre irony of a family sitting on a fortune which they refused to touch . |
21 | At its best such a book will not only provide a satisfying solution to the murder puzzle which it still must have , but also at the same time the solution of the mystery should reveal finally what it was the novel had to say . |
22 | He discusses the politeness dimension not only in the relationship between the fictional personae in the textual world , but also at the macroscopic level , i.e. between reader and writer . |
23 | Or something perhaps … moving through space forwards but back at the same time , as if I consisted of anti-matter for ever cancelled out … as if in all our words and gestures , acts and attitudes we effected some sort of parallel penetration into whatever had originated them , their primeval atom , with built-in unstableness. ( 107–108/303–4 ) |
24 | Until recent years the general rule has been to require the consent of a parent or guardian for an operation or an anaesthetic on a person of under 21 , but increasingly at the present time it is becoming customary to accept the consent of minors aged 16 and over . |
25 | But even at the simplest level , the call line identification facility alone will not only improve communications and enhance the functionality of many office telephone systems , it will enable companies to offer a whole new range of personalised services ( see ACCOUNTANCY , April 1992 , pp 70-71 ) . |
26 | Thus , if a trustee of a family trust or a nominee or bare trustee or even an agent receives rent there can be a liability to income tax on him ( normally just at the basic rate but sometimes at the additional rate ) . |
27 | Fourthly , this test would mean that there was no remedy under the Act in respect of a transaction with an overseas company , or a foreigner living here but abroad at the crucial moment , even if the subject matter was English land . |
28 | ‘ We talked about it , but then at the last minute we thought of the Bahamas . |
29 | But then at the last moment I drifted wide . |
30 | I base this theory on having seen the fish both distressed and inflated , but never at the same time . |