Example sentences of "but [adv] [adv] [art] [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are the biggest club in football not to have had any recent success , but right now the city is rocking . |
| 2 | When the losses are recognized for what they are then the healing of the pain can begin , but so often the loss is so deeply buried in people 's minds that it can take a long while for it to come to the surface again . |
| 3 | But so often the challenge is not met and the result is a wishy-washy moral parable . |
| 4 | But so far the reverse is the case . |
| 5 | That may be a wee indictment of the Government , but so far the argument is reasonably incontestable . |
| 6 | But normally either the land was eventually to be divided equally between the children or , more typically where land was scarcer , the land itself would go to a single son and provision be made for the other children in cash — very often advanced earlier in life , on marriage or to set up in a trade . |
| 7 | There is some evidence for this , but once again the situation is not clear-cut . |
| 8 | Straight after the break Varadi was through again , but once more the shot was turned away . |
| 9 | Quite effective , but more importantly the book is good too , a mesmerising children-in-peril tale with escalating fear . |
| 10 | They sometimes take the form of a palace garden seen from above , but more often a garden is simply implied by the juxtaposition of vegetal and foliate forms . |
| 11 | But more specifically the suggestion was made by one respondent that ten minutes in the day be set aside when the bureau is closed , to discuss problems and tie up ends . |
| 12 | But even here the administration was careful to build up formal channels of access that it could control and that would in turn support the regime , as in the case of traditional leadership , which was recruited as a legitimizing instrument of government in the localities . |
| 13 | The result was there was very little money left ‘ in the kitty ’ to meet the bill but even so the payment was just two weeks late . |
| 14 | Their vocabularies are small , but even so the achievement is almost miraculous : how many human beings have learned to speak and understand dolphin-language ? |
| 15 | His brows were drawn together in a frown , his face still ; the reflected light from the brazier made his fairness ruddy that was usually so pale and clear , but even so the likeness was extreme . |
| 16 | There are of course areas of the city that are notorious for their bars and sex shows , but even there the atmosphere is lively and interesting ( ! ) and you can just walk past ! |
| 17 | But here again the knowledge is so practical , so much preconditioned by behaviour , that it can be taught and is taught mainly by doing what they are told to do on particular occasions and by not being allowed to do or to touch certain things that are always within their experience . |
| 18 | Greece remains the remarkably rewarding market it has always been , but here again the growth is in the number of serious players and not in the size of the market itself . |
| 19 | But here too the peasant was tied to the land , taxed ever more heavily , and confronted by the same obstacles to economic self-improvement . |
| 20 | Nobody likes a child who is allowed to do whatever she likes , but then again no child is happy if she is always prevented from exploring . |
| 21 | Dino had broken down , and it had been one of the best races of the whole season , but then maybe the driver was prejudiced , she told herself sourly . |
| 22 | In the early days , both in the United States and in Africa , some even hunted from the railway carriages themselves , but very soon the game was being driven further and further from the railway lines . |
| 23 | Unseasonal weather can encourage a dramatic rise in pest numbers before their natural predators have multiplied in response , but very often an outbreak is the result of poor management , leaving plants susceptible to attack . |