Example sentences of "[adv] but at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The survey by Hay Management Consultants found the rate of pay increase was slowing down but at an average of 7% rises were still comfortably above inflation . |
| 2 | It seemed as though he was going straight through but at the entrance he stopped peeped into the passage and broke away . |
| 3 | Nadim Bashir , defending , said Fulcher , of Spencerfield Crescent , Thorntree , Middlesbrough , now accepted his marriage was over but at the time of the incident there were problems over access to their children . |
| 4 | I am going to say that at the deep level there is not but at the ordinary , everyday level there often is and we need to take it quite seriously . |
| 5 | She suspected that some aspects of rural life would be lost for ever but at the same time she could see that much was gained . |
| 6 | I settled in pretty quickly , though suffering a bit from culture shock and more from the realisation that I was semi-illiterate in the Thai language : I had the ability to communicate verbally but at a child 's level and almost no ability to read . |
| 7 | I think he could cope all right but at the back of his mind will always be the fact that possibly he let the party down . |
| 8 | Owen Rowlands had slipped a little but at the end of this second day still maintained the lead on 132 . |
| 9 | Mark Flatts , a 20-year-old midfielder making an impressive full debut , robbed Sutton as he dribbled out of the penalty area and the ball fell to Wright 20 yards out but at the most acute of angles . |
| 10 | Also Goblander had needed a new exhaust system and they had that done immediately , not in the local Nunes garage though but at a big , impersonal place in Colchester . |
| 11 | sober he can do more than they do I mean i that ai n't the sort bloke you wan na lose , and I 'm , when he balls and shouts at them well he gets on your nerves really but at the end of the day I 'll you know , I 'll put up with it . |
| 12 | I say that now but at the time I took my task extremely seriously and I swelled with pride when Mr Broadhurst took me back to Churchill Square to buy my second book . |
| 13 | Actually I 've I I I 'm I ca n't do it now but at the next the next traffic I 'm going to liven it up a bit for you . |
| 14 | And I do n't know how , what 's happened about it now but at the time he was still having to pay for it |
| 15 | The specific volume changes linearly with temperature up to a transition region where a change of slope occurs , after which the curve continues linearly but at a steeper gradient ; Tg is usually defined s the point at which the tangents to the two curves intersect . |
| 16 | I was taken here but at the time I mean I was n't one of the really seriously burnt , I mean I was still conscious and I was still walking around . |
| 17 | ‘ Mixed marriage ’ seems such an outdated expression nowadays but at the turn of the century it must have been quite a sacrifice for both of them to make . |
| 18 | But I do n't , I do n't but at the moment there so , the games they 've sold , there 's no games before , before there is gon na be really good games for the twelve hundred , yeah , before they start coming out . |
| 19 | And then after I had my daughter I was going to go back in there but at the time it was just like a junior 's position , |
| 20 | Not really , I mean well I know , German I mean I 'm gon na be worried about it when I get there but at the moment German and French are just gon na be translating something , there 'll be , give me an extract and a translation and I 'll have to do them , you know |
| 21 | Were NASA to adopt a more open-minded policy towards this ancient , spiritual and very logical language , it would not change the world overnight but at the least it would be a start . |
| 22 | I certainly do n't mind but I 'm completely but at the prospect of having to face them tomorrow morning . |
| 23 | But it will happen … not quite yet but at the point where he will no longer hinder me with the pretence that he would have me stay . |
| 24 | Many firms — when else but at the peak of the property rush ? — then signed up for plush , atriumed premises to house their new recruits . |
| 25 | Where else but at the Hotel Okura ? |
| 26 | The lines seem to shift and shimmer as you look at them and before long you have a powerful desire to look away , anywhere but at the painfully dazzling pattern in front of you . |