Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | The time can be shortened , however , if those members who were supposed to make some enquiry or obtain some information , or to write a short factual statement , have not only done so but have informed the Hon. |
| 2 | Most of the signals are only noted subconsciously but , with a little effort , it is quite easy to become more aware of them so that , should a warning bell ring at the back of your head , you will know it is time to be careful . |
| 3 | The AR.III was not only demonstrated successfully but in February 1938 Raoul Hafner gave a paper to the Royal Aeronautical Society describing the design . |
| 4 | Sally quite enjoyed the visits but Paula had no patience for making conversation with Gran , who tended to have very old-fashioned , dyed-in-the-wool ideas and was easily shocked , and she hated having to eat her way through the ham salad and bread and butter , Victoria sponge and tinned fruit and cream which Gran not only laid on but also piled high on her plate because she thought Paula much too thin . |
| 5 | Sometimes he would even say that Tom had not only gone home but had subsequently died of cancer . |
| 6 | ‘ R ’ s were always rolled , for example , and ‘ S ’ s were not only delivered forcefully but with a quality more like the ‘ Sh ’ sound , to which the diaphragm responded better . |
| 7 | The next half-hour or so passed quietly but for the sound of happy munching and quaffing . |
| 8 | Sometime later he did turn up , also very much put out but for a different reason . |
| 9 | This connection is normally secured theoretically and depends upon well- established law-like relationships which are not only expressed mathematically but also indicate measurement units , as in the case of the thermometer . |
| 10 | Some of them are on N two , that erm , not necessarily , in fact the majority of the forms in the supporting guidelines on manuals are not versioned yet but they , we followed the advice of Roy there and we have listed them in each of the guidelines with a statement of erm , we 've just , I mean , a clear listing there of each form and when we actually go to introduce the next time , reprint , we will then put version codes on them . |
| 11 | It applies also to someone signing a document with the blanks for the particular transaction not filled in but agreeing to , or authorising , another to fill in those blanks later , United Dominions Trust v. Western ( 1975 C.A. ) . |
| 12 | Biliary lipid composition was not altered significantly but bicarbonate output was increased at all doses tested . |
| 13 | It 's one of m it 's one of my me memories I 've erm hidden , well not hidden away but tucked away to look at in |
| 14 | Manager Lennie Lawrence said : ‘ Slaven was not picked tonight but he has as much chance as any other player of playing at Tranmere on Friday night . |
| 15 | On the other hand , in countries where fetal deaths for the maternal age group under 15 are not reported separately but are included in the under 20 age group , the relationship takes a " J " shape , since the chances for giving birth a viable child are poorer at the oldest childbearing ages than at the late teens . |
| 16 | However , the coach-driver case was an example of a case not reported directly but taken up in Paul Foot 's column , after the relatives of the victims had made a protest to him about the sentences and the lack of publicity of the case . |
| 17 | A cartridge pleat heading is made up in the same way as pinch pleats ( page 22 ) , but the bases of the small tubes ( pleats ) are not pinched up but left rounded by filling with a soft stuffing such as wadding . |
| 18 | It was a complex language : not written down but handed down . |
| 19 | The High Court of Australia ( McTiernan J. dissenting ) held that the payments were not made voluntarily but under duress and were therefore recoverable . |
| 20 | If undue influence in the full sense is not made out but the element of pressure , surprise , misrepresentation or some or one of them combine with or cause a misunderstanding or failure to understand the documents or transaction , the final question must be whether the grounds upon which the creditor believed that the document was fairly obtained and executed by a woman sufficiently understanding its purport and effect were such that it would be inequitable to fix the creditor with the consequences of the husband 's improper or unfair dealing with his wife . |
| 21 | Well not fed up but |
| 22 | Regulation and rationing were not adopted reluctantly but as measures essential to the war effort . |
| 23 | In this series , the histological diagnosis was based on biopsy specimens , staging procedures systematically included abdominal and chest computed tomography and bone marrow biopsy , and most patients were not operated on but were successfully treated with monochemotherapy . |
| 24 | That old smarty pants Dr Samuel Johnson was fond of saying that a woman preaching was like a dog standing on hind legs — it was not done well but it was surprising to find it done at all . |
| 25 | They both rejected the practice which had grown up since the decision of Slade J. in In re Castle New Homes Ltd. [ 1979 ] 1 W.L.R. 1075 , whereby if the liquidator had sued or decided to sue he was refused that order ; if he had not done so but was seeking information to enable him to sue he was granted an order . |
| 26 | There is no need for the history department to teach the skill before using census materials if the mathematics department has already done so but even more importantly if the historians need to know how to do this at an earlier stage than the mathematics department would teach this skill in their programme of study then the historians must negotiate this with their colleagues in the best interests of the children . |
| 27 | You can get I mean , it 's not connected up but you can have er you can have it connected it up to the ra , to the radio and get concerts through the stere |
| 28 | Thse observations suggest that HCO 3 - is not absorbed directly but rather as a result of H + secretion via apical Na + /H + exchange . |
| 29 | In other words , commands are not obeyed immediately but stored so that you can run the program , which is a list of commands , at a later date . |
| 30 | Thus , the child 's language is not sampled directly but , as it were , by proxy in terms of what the teacher or therapist is able to recall of the child 's performance under everyday conditions . |