Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] but [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's it 's been dealt with in Whitemoor , you know about that but also in another pit . |
| 2 | I was n't too happy about that but never mind . |
| 3 | In Manchester , as in Scotland , it was a good night for Labour but overall the result was still devastating . |
| 4 | That any pricing system adopted recognises the budgetary context as indicated both by the size of DSS transfer and placement rates for 1993/94 but also the inflationary pressures inherent in the adoption of explicit ceilings to which prices may converge . |
| 5 | I think his er the best thing to do would be simply to acknowledge at that stage , as Bill did , yeah that is an important area erm say yeah that 's something we can help you on , indeed it 's something many of my clients erm have found that Friends Provident is really very good at organizing , we 've got plans specifically designed for that but rather than look at that now , let's look at the overall picture |
| 6 | I searched for that but never found it . ’ |
| 7 | He said last night : ‘ I was surprised when I heard about this but very pleased . |
| 8 | Most of the time we do not really think about this but sometimes it is interesting to see how our language changes according to the role we play . |
| 9 | The net effect leaves revenue forecasts unchanged for 1993 but sharply increased by 2003 as rail traffic rises on the completion of high speed links . |
| 10 | The MacSharry proposals , if implemented in anything like their current form , would decimate Scottish agriculture because Scottish farms are generally well above the average size of farms in the EC and in the rest of the United Kingdom , for historical but mainly geographical reasons . |
| 11 | This is true not only for ageing but also for the onset of disabilities ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 12 | And would they still get the income support after that but still at a reduced rate or not ? |
| 13 | There are several blank pages after this but perhaps another minute book , now lost , was started . |
| 14 | He did not resume his role as a major lender until after 1689 but meanwhile he had blossomed into a Kentish landowner and re-entered Parliament . |
| 15 | Popular participation in electoral politics began to flag after 1951 but arguably this was because most people felt less urgency as regards political change ; there was no strong and deep-going popular reaction against the government . |
| 16 | Many outside observers saw the events of the 1930s and early 1940s as the logical outcome not only of the policies adopted after 1868 but also of long-standing socio-economic factors . |
| 17 | The party 's ‘ new political thinking ’ , by contrast , recognised the existence of a complex and contradictory world in which there were threats to the survival of humanity as such but also great opportunities for coexistence and cooperation . |
| 18 | Since then home viewing has largely taken over from cinema going but there does not seem to have been much criticism of the format as such but perhaps more so the screen size . |
| 19 | Regan argues , at careful and considerable length , that Rawls is inconsistent here ; that his duty to animals is in reality an indirect one owed not to animals as such but only to self-interested individuals who have purposes that include animals ( 1983 : 163–74 ) . |
| 20 | The emphasis on athleticism , power play , sustained long-ball assaults , blitzkrieg , has bred a proliferation of muscular but blunderingly naive defenders who appear to be alarmingly , untidily vulnerable when required to cope with more subtle forms of attack ; show them dribblers , runners with the ball or an incisive exchange of sharp passes , and panic sets in . |
| 21 | Red shirts clashed with blue , sometimes one of each but occasionally in bunches . |
| 22 | There is a reported reduction both in the number of active sweat glands and in the secretory output of each gland with increasing age , a phenomenon which is not the result of a failure of the autonomic control of sweating but partly to trophic changes which occur with age in human skin . |
| 23 | Made by the Japanese firm of Saga ( the same people who brought us the Lowden-esque Trameleuc acoustics , plus reissues of Maccaferri gypsy jazz guitars and Regal wooden-bodied resophonics ) these new acoustics sell under the name of O.C. Smith and promise an interesting combination of European but strongly American-influenced design , together with Japanese efficiency and affordability . |
| 24 | If , however , a head can not show a personal commitment towards specific but nevertheless broad values , no amount of organizational skill will compensate . |
| 25 | In an act of admirable but ultimately misguided loyalty , the national coach Andy Roxburgh stood by his dispirited keeper . |
| 26 | you know , bits of this and bits of that but there again I think the family service ought to be a lot shorter than it is |
| 27 | In particular , indirect attempts to uncover the phenomenon have been made by Crenson and others , but these have tended to founder on the difficulties of separating the notion of a ‘ latent issue ’ , for which one relies on observation of declared but otherwise undeveloped wishes of significant actors , from that of ‘ real interests ’ , which introduces altogether different problems of method , and of course takes one completely out of the field of behaviourism . |
| 28 | He has the advantage of having devised a series of self-contained but effectively linked novels , full of properly casual back-references , in which he can show his hero changing with circumstances from the exuberance of a young lieutenant , to whom personal courage , seamanlike skills and informed opportunism have brought reputation and wealth , to a middle-aged man still exuberant but oppressed with financial cares and by the continual malice of personal enemies . |
| 29 | This homology is not confined only to the kinking proline residues and the long basic side chain of arginine but also includes the hydrophobic amino terminal valine or alanine . |
| 30 | Below the summit on the west side is Sand Tarn , well known to the millstone workers of old but rarely visited today . |