Example sentences of "[adv] but [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , in concert with other friends , he worked patiently but assiduously for Pound 's eventual release . |
| 2 | The three buttons slope steeply but comfortably from right to left as viewed from the user . |
| 3 | CPRW contends that it illustrates all too clearly how a development which would never obtain consent in the enlightened planning world of today , can creep incrementally but inexorably towards permanence through stealth and dogged persistence . |
| 4 | There was , he added , a danger that exclusions might come about not deliberately but simply through inertia or administrative error . |
| 5 | Held , granting the declarations , that it was the moment of adjudication of bankruptcy that caused the property of a bankrupt to vest in his trustee thereby causing an involuntary alienation of his property which resulted in the severance of any joint tenancy he might then be beneficially entitled to ; that the combined effect of sections 37(1) and 38 ( a ) of the Bankruptcy Act 1914 was not to vest title in the trustee retrospectively but rather to vest in the trustee when adjudication occurred title to property which was identified by reference to the property which belonged to the bankrupt at the commencement of the bankruptcy ; and that , accordingly , since the joint tenancy had not been severed before the wife 's death , on her death the husband , as survivor , became entitled to the whole beneficial interest in the properties , which on his adjudication as bankrupt vested in his trustee in bankruptcy ( post , pp. 206A , F–H , 207C ) . |
| 6 | The Report observes : ‘ It is now 25 years since Mitbestimmung ( Co-determination ) was introduced in the Federal Republic of Germany ’ ; and again : ‘ As long ago as 1972 the EEC published draft proposals for a Fifth Directive on Company law , proposing employee representation on the supervisory boards of all companies in the Community with over 500 employees ’ — a rhetorical presentation that pictures the United Kingdom as dragging its reluctant feet well in the rear of a party marching briskly along the path towards a bright new future entrusted not wholly but largely to trade unions . |
| 7 | It may be difficult to identify a precise boundary and it is essential that they are defined not only legally but practically on site in the presence , and with the agreement , of adjoining owners . |
| 8 | Currently left back but equally at home in midfield . |
| 9 | They have increasingly uncomfortable decisions to make , sometimes consciously but frequently by default , about priorities . |
| 10 | A Callanish eagle can never die here but only within sight of that great place from which she comes ! ’ |
| 11 | I think these proposals not only are a way forward but also in light of what is actually happening in the area of Highfields with er the high numbers of unemployment , with the high rate of people underachieving in education I think for the last two and a half years there has been no clear guidelines or structure that has systematically brought about any results in the two centres to move forward where people have lost out by this issue being bureaucratic and a political football that 's being kicked about and I think it 's about time where we now have cross party consensus that we move positively forward and work towards these proposals . |
| 12 | From the age of nine Proust suffered spasmodically but severely from asthma . |
| 13 | After that the Koreans took the lead again but just before half-time the battling Britons got level with a Cathy Johnson goal . |
| 14 | It was as if the estate and the valley people were opposing armies under truce , mixing freely but still in uniform . |