Example sentences of "but [adv] [adv] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further extensive tests are still being carried out on other samples but so far no trace of Miss Larkin , 24 , has been found . |
| 2 | Er the majority , but only just the majority of your assignments are complete and they are in six one eight to be picked up . |
| 3 | The exact cost , and hence the viability , of the energy source remains to be determined , though it is projected to be about 10 pence a unit , five times the existing price of coal but only twice the cost of nuclear power . |
| 4 | But only about a quarter of goods are imported , so a ten per cent devaluation would add 2.5 per cent to the cost of living . |
| 5 | It is a very important market in that it is the main link between all other sectors of the money market in London and participants include not just banks , but just about every area of the finance community . |
| 6 | At the outset , this dichotomy looks comparatively promising , but once again the equation of determinism with holism on the one hand , and of non-determinism with individualism on the other , gives rise to difficulties . |
| 7 | No it 's not just straight heads but like quite a lot of the time it is straight heads . |
| 8 | ( An influence on Leonard equal to that of A. M. Klein , also a lawyer , but more importantly a poet-novelist of considerable skill , whose familiarity with literature equalled his Jewish erudition and commitment unlike Leonard he was a ‘ ghetto ’ Jew of Montreal ) . |
| 9 | Not necessarily for what he did on the pitch , although the trickery and goals certainly helped but more importantly the presence of the man , and excitement he inspired amongst his colleagues . |
| 10 | But more generally the shame of not being like Japan has now been reinforced by the shame of not being like Romania . |
| 11 | The next most important feature is a heavy weight ; at least a 1½oz bomb , but more likely a bomb of 2oz , and up to 3oz . |
| 12 | In some instances the researchers accepted that this pattern might be explained by the preponderance of mode B schemes ‘ but more often a process of ‘ guided drift ’ could be detected , based on a stereotyping of both young people and mode delivery ’ ( pp. 38 — 9 ) . |
| 13 | Increasingly however , they will have to look to other institutions , sometimes another school but more often a College of F.E. , to provide specialised courses for their students at set times in the week . |
| 14 | Sometimes the turbine daunted them ; sometimes , I suspect , the stairs but more often the size of the place . |
| 15 | But more often the allocation of billets reflected social relations and deferential attitudes in rural society , as when , according to one MP , at Inverary in Scotland 150 women and children were housed in a cold hall , with bedding of dirty mattresses and sacks of straw ‘ with a broad arrow on them , that had been obtained from the local jail ’ , while near by the Duke of Argyll 's castle was left uninhabited . |
| 16 | To us , St. Joe 's embodies our own history : a history of caring and campaigning for homeless people , but more vitally a history of " Simon " and its ideas , principles and values . |
| 17 | The determination of M is absolute when S and D are known , but more commonly a relation of the form is established , using polymer fractions of known M , for a given solvent + polymer system . |
| 18 | The stage at the end was an alcove in the ballroom , a big one , but still just a part of the whole . |
| 19 | Since this shop has the reputation of being the best for designer clothes , its customers tend to pay more than at other branches — but still only a fraction of the retail price . |
| 20 | jackal deity of Asyut , associated with warfare , but later mainly a guardian of the dead , connected with Osiris at Abydos . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , I think the thrill of being recognized , which is partly an ego boost , but also partly a measure of how well you 're doing in your business , you know . |
| 22 | He summed up the disseminated structure of his novels ( often in his case a necessary result of serial publication , but also probably a matter of personal preference ) , in the same work , when he compared the chapters of a novel to a convoy of vessels and himself , the inventor , as a man-of-war turning attention now to one ship , now to another , in order to bring them all safely to port . |
| 23 | It was simply their headquarters where they came to trade , where they came to er perhaps attend law courts but particularly where the prior of came when he came to do services at the Minster because he was a canon of York as well as being canon or the parish of Bramham which gave him a seat in the Cathedral . |
| 24 | ‘ I know that PCs call them spooks , niggers and sooties , but deep down the majority of PCs are n't really against them , although there are some who really hate them and will go out of their way to get them . |
| 25 | Once a match between Cornwall and Lancashire would have included the cream of English rugby , but tomorrow only a handful of players are from top clubs . |
| 26 | The physical appearance of Chesterfield 's market place was altered by the erection of a huge market hall in 1857 , but even today the shape of the area is that determined upon back in the twelfth century when a decision was taken to found a new market at what was then the edge of the town . |
| 27 | The only possible exception within the major world religions is Theravada Buddhism , but even here the concept of Nirvana is all-pervasive and has more features in common with an understanding of " God " than with a Western secular atheist view . |
| 28 | Only the blessings of a continuing income from North Sea oil kept the balance of payments in reasonable condition , but even here the emergence of the pound as a ‘ petro-currency ’ ( along with high interest rates ) led to its appreciation in value to the cost of British exports . |
| 29 | Giles was a pleasant companion , but even so the thought of Robert 's scorn lingered at the back of her mind . |
| 30 | Cloud-cover problems will diminish the number of useful images from the 20–22 per year that are theoretically possible , but even so the monitoring of surface phenomena that change during the year ( such as agricultural crops and natural vegetation ) or which change over the years ( for example the extent of the built-up areas of cities or the extent of forest cover ) is possible . |