Example sentences of "[adv] but [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Major keeps his elbows on the table , and claps his fingers together but not the base of his hands , which makes him look rather like a seal . |
| 2 | A young couple and the wife 's parents bought a house together but only the younger couple were registered as owners . |
| 3 | The political weakness of the liberals reflected not only their fear of the threat from below but also the profound divisions within the middle classes . |
| 4 | Oh it could be stormy right enough but well the steamer might call at Rousay at that time and they would land the goods in Rousay the perishables for Wyre and when the weather abated we would get it from there . |
| 5 | Thus But Hence a useful alternative expression for the partial fraction coefficients is in terms of which and The final result here is referred to as the Heavyside expansion theorem . |
| 6 | Better watch TV HELL which probably charts the history of bad TV decently but doubtless the BBC will bollocks it up as they always do . |
| 7 | The Magistrate , standing in hesitation on the verandah , was illuminated by a rare shaft of watery sunlight for a moment and his whiskers flared more brilliantly than ever but then the sun moved on , extinguishing them . |
| 8 | Armstrong replied , in a later number of the same journal , that it is simply an empirical fact about our proprioceptive powers that we are able to perceive the heat of our hand directly but not the roughness of its surface . |
| 9 | Well , by the 9th we still held our two-stroke lead , and slowly but surely the galleries got bigger and bigger . |
| 10 | French and Jewish ‘ influence ’ went hand in hand for many Germans and allowed Völkisch opinion on the matter to flourish : slowly but surely the word Völk came to mean not simply ‘ people ’ , but also ‘ populist ’ , and to imply a sense of common identity and of racial superiority over those peoples who needed the French to emancipate them . |
| 11 | Slowly but surely the mass of bodies was yielding … soon it would be forced out into the drawing-room like the cork out of a bottle of champagne . |
| 12 | Slowly but surely the rights of trade union reps are being eroded . |
| 13 | Sheer tiredness relaxed her limbs , and slowly but surely the warmth sent her off to sleep . |
| 14 | Slowly but surely the strange shapes begin to form . |
| 15 | Imperceptibly , slowly but definitely the eyes of my mind focussed more and more on that eye in the desert , Al Ain . |
| 16 | Slowly but inexorably the band draws nearer . |
| 17 | If he is to be totally unbiased when making his observations , then he will be obliged to record not only the readings on various meters , the presence or absence of sparks at various critical locations in the electrical circuits , the dimensions of the circuit etc. but also the colour of the meters , the dimensions of the laboratory , the state of the weather , the size of his shoes and a whole host of ‘ clearly irrelevant ’ details , irrelevant , that is , to the kind of theory in which Hertz was interested and which he was testing . |
| 18 | Right but definitely the death in service . |
| 19 | The invention of pumps to draw the water up helped a little but not a lot . |
| 20 | From the early days of the Spanish invasion , the ridge had been logged commercially but now the major part of the pine forest had been declared a nature reserve . |
| 21 | These rights included not only an ability to continue using the property as before but also the right to rebuild or extend it , provided the original building was not exceeded by more than ten per cent . |
| 22 | And my coat , my big army coat , which is forty years old now but still a good friend , and as strong as ever , became a remarkable sight . |
| 23 | Sunny at first tomorrow but then the forecast for the rest of Tuesday , More showers expected . |
| 24 | Sunny spells for tomorrow but still a chance with showers . |
| 25 | We managed to breed some about ten years ago but unfortunately the young died so we are ver pleased with this success . |
| 26 | It was a repeat of the result of the first Fourball series at Muirfield village two years ago but only the second time that the Americans had been shut out since the fourball format was introduced at Atlanta in 1963 . |
| 27 | not here but elsewhere the settled |
| 28 | I mean , there are parish organizations represented here but not a very large number |
| 29 | See if I can find you a picture of a of a , I 've got a picture of a Roman legionnaire here but not the standard bearer . |
| 30 | Water , water everywhere but not a drop to drink — because it 's all gone down the sink ! |