Example sentences of "[adv] but [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He clenched his teeth together but the first syllable forced itself around the corner of his mouth . |
| 2 | She talked to friends , not only about the happy times they 'd had together but the inevitable disappointments . |
| 3 | Two-thirds of the ground floor of each house in the terrace was taken up by a garage ; the door to Sybil 's stood open with the car inside but the other three were closed , revealing that the owners had differing and not particularly compatible tastes in colour . |
| 4 | B but until we moved from there to street and we still only had one bedroom and one down but a little tiny back kitchen . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm very much up and down but the past few days I 've amazed myself . |
| 6 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , I did n't know her personally but the other night like , I think it was her that we seen on the Woodham Road . ’ |
| 8 | Now if , if you accept the ten percent owning the eighty percent , there must 've been enough but the poor are not getting it . |
| 9 | The time could not have been worse , defeat by Peru was bad enough but the entire Scottish party had been invited to a reception with the Minister of Sport Denis Howell , a former referee and a declared opponent of drug abuse in sport . |
| 10 | The front seats are comfortable enough but the next row , well . |
| 11 | That had been bad enough but the sleepless night had got her worrying about her work . |
| 12 | The reality may well be that the enterprise is not competitive enough but the military metaphor is a way of bringing about this attitude . |
| 13 | Nick went to the local Primary because he was still young enough but the older children were given lessons by their own teachers in the Chapels . |
| 14 | So er , they had The Big Engine and I , I 've read that so but the small railway engines . |
| 15 | The wild fish grows to 20cm or so but the aquarium-kept specimen is unlikely to reach 15cm . |
| 16 | ‘ I suppose so but the whole set-up is as camp as a field full of tents . |
| 17 | So but the residual element which would carry on south through Harrogate is |
| 18 | Ash is produced when the coal is burnt and has proved to be something for the salvation for many plants and animals the ash is so fine that it has to be turned into a slurry and put into the to settle out these can be up to eight years during which time it becomes none the less but an artificial mud flat quickly colonized by weeds , pioneers crucial to the complex way of life in our natural world But for bird-watchers it is the bird that attracted to these artificial mud flats that are the most exciting development within the boundaries of these power station nature reserves . |
| 19 | And the little'un could n't care less but the middle one thinks a lot of her dad . |
| 20 | Only but a whole ham if you are really going to use it . |
| 21 | There is no difference overall between adenoidectomy only and ventilation tubes alone but a significant benefit of adenoidectomy and tube insertion in combination above any other treatment . |
| 22 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 23 | The close relationship between some of these groups and their Soviet neighbours is immediately apparent from their names alone but the largest group , the Hui , are either descendants of Chinese converts to Islam or of Chinese intermarriages with Muslim immigrants . |
| 24 | They were all in But the tinned stuff , everywhere now is n't it . |
| 25 | You then put new values in — they may be sales targets , interest rates , whatever — and the sheet changes onscreen to show you the way the picture stands with them in but the main sheet remains as it was . |
| 26 | Little Billy climbed onto his back , and as the great swan spread his wings and flew away , the whole forest , not just the tree they were in but the whole forest from end to end , came alive with the cheering of a million Minpins . |
| 27 | Companion technologies such as page description languages and page printers have been developing apace but the real strides seem to be being made in the scanner market with both better grey scale capability and higher resolutions . |
| 28 | I used to pay them straight away but the big companies are n't paying us ! |
| 29 | Most of its soft top simply came away but the whole car seemed to move sideways . |
| 30 | As he grew older , the villages and tents and armies of this world were fading away but the white cities and the armies that lie beyond the senses shone more brightly by day and by night and Hamza hastened to death on roads lined by the army of Prophets . |