Example sentences of "but [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The furnishings did not look new , but elegantly worn and homely . |
| 2 | Pointless , of course , but elegantly done . |
| 3 | Jacques 's flute method , compositions and instrument were not only characteristic of the early Baroque flute but elegantly expressed its aesthetic virtually to perfection . |
| 4 | Redolent of exotic fruit and scented soap , it is almost sweet-and-sour in character — seemingly sweet at the rich bouquet stage , but satisfyingly dry — almost sour — as you come through the pungent taste . |
| 5 | Some children may therefore adopt a black mask which they wear fiercely but weakly . |
| 6 | For I have news of great moment to report , viz. that on Friday last by a night when the moon shone but weakly we had intelligence that our neighbours in this land were embarked upon a most fiendish and treacherous Enterprise , namely to do every man among us fatal harm while we were still sleeping in our beds . |
| 7 | Or they may be thinking about the unthinkable : independence for their tiny — but vastly more successful — China . |
| 8 | We were there not to service the latest release plans of the record companies but to represent a submerged but vastly influential music culture . |
| 9 | There is one other type of microorganism to be found not in general fiction but in science fiction : the colonial organism , individually composed of microscopic bits but vastly intelligent as a collective . |
| 10 | Grom was to prove the exception , a Goblin who was not only as dangerous and ambitious as the best Orc , but vastly bigger as well ! |
| 11 | It is a very simple issue but vastly important for our whole way of life is based upon acceptance of the rule of law . ’ |
| 12 | Thankfully the downward trend stopped at ‘ Cemetery Gates ’ , an absurdly overstated flash of self parody , immensely pretentious but laughably so , hilariously so . |
| 13 | The cottage the gate belonged to had disappeared , but perversely its gate had been left behind . |
| 14 | She had n't wanted another argument , but perversely she was now filled with deep resentment at the way he was hijacking her right to tear him to pieces . |
| 15 | This is an easy way to have a number of gliders wrecked by the wind , but luckily it does not occur very often . |
| 16 | Such studies are rare , but luckily one exists of an area from which emigration to Britain has occurred ( Mamdani : The Myth of Population Control , Monthly Review Press , 1972 ) . |
| 17 | ‘ We burnt out the pto three times last year , but luckily it only takes an hour to change it . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Bits of broken glass showered over me but luckily I was n't injured . ’ |
| 19 | Building societies ' own retail inflows are already modest — a mere £145m in the latest reported month — but luckily , so is demand for mortgages . |
| 20 | This would be an enormous waste management headache if all of this went into ‘ throwaway ’ products , but luckily this is not the case : although packaging is the biggest single consuming sector , accounting for 33 per cent , construction materials take out 20 per cent of the total . |
| 21 | But luckily for golf this was cancelled when the land was ear-marked for a camp site instead . |
| 22 | She was about to kick it aside , but luckily glanced up to see Luch 's watchful eye on her . |
| 23 | The first two men to exit from the following party were killed when their parachutes failed to open , but luckily the RAF dispatcher managed to stop the rest from jumping . |
| 24 | He was knocked unconscious for a brief period but luckily nothing was broken . |
| 25 | Reluctantly they headed away into the darkness and made the rendezvous rather late , but luckily the patrol had waited for them . |
| 26 | Seeing trucks approaching , the latter made ready for battle , but luckily there was mutual recognition before any shooting started . |
| 27 | They fired away with wild abandon , but luckily with little accuracy , and he was able to extricate himself . |
| 28 | Cheque book journalism has been pointed at Madge but luckily she 's weathered the storm or else , ’ Dame Edna paused dramatically , ‘ she 'd be back on the streets . ’ |
| 29 | But luckily help was at hand in the person of Anna-Lisa Hammer , a blonde , Norwegian freelance journalist who was also the Press Officer for the Bislet Games in Oslo . |
| 30 | The tree was so big that , if it had fallen into the clearing , it would have flattened most of the gathering , but luckily it went in the other direction , toppling over the cliffside . |