Example sentences of "[adv] but [adv] [art] [noun sg] " 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 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 .
3 And I said more or less we stayed in but not a word .
4 Colour the remaining fondant a pale cream colour ( use a tiny amount of diluted yellow food colouring ) and knead in a tiny amount of brown until almost mixed in but still a bit ‘ muddy ’ .
5 He added : ‘ There is a mountain of work to go through but hopefully the answer lies in the mountain . ’
6 It was n't said that there were cells that actually corresponded to those features , not but nonetheless the output from the system could be thought of as a feature detection system .
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 In a Library-College ( if one existed ) the library contains rooms which may be used by teachers for small or large group sessions , and there are laboratories , gymnasia , music rooms and so forth leading off but essentially the library is the dominant body .
9 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 .
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 Sheer tiredness relaxed her limbs , and slowly but surely the warmth sent her off to sleep .
13 Slowly but inexorably the band draws nearer .
14 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 .
15 Right but definitely the death in service .
16 The invention of pumps to draw the water up helped a little but not a lot .
17 Thus there is a set of channels ( the complement of those represented by X ) that the environment can offer which one process can deadlock on but not the other .
18 Today they would probably be snapped up but sadly the collection , bought by a London gallery , was lost last year in a warehouse fire at Heathrow .
19 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 .
20 ‘ Neither worked out but now the time is right and , by the end of the decade , cable and satellite should be in half the homes in Britain .
21 Sunny at first tomorrow but then the forecast for the rest of Tuesday , More showers expected .
22 Sunny spells for tomorrow but still a chance with showers .
23 There are of course some positive signs around but also a danger that I want to alert you to : a growth in what I will call ‘ designer caring ’ .
24 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 .
25 Water , water everywhere but not a drop to drink — because it 's all gone down the sink !
26 Halcyon days indeed but now the trio have broken up and McWilliams after another brief spell in England is back searching around for mounts .
27 It had rained overnight but now the sun was breaking through and the scene had a certain gaiety .
28 A Land Rover mechanic replaced the stabiliser unit behind the dash — the fuel gauge worked again but not the temperature gauge .
29 This is of course , symptomatic of the dealers worldwide but somehow the club here in Britain is so much smaller .
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