Example sentences of "[verb] but [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the novel moves on , the humour is modified but often the comedy scenes intensify the serious ones . |
| 2 | For example , given the heterogeneous nature of cereal production in the UK , a uniform response is not expected but rather a range of opinion amongst producers , largely dependent on the degree to which producers are committed to intensive cereal production . |
| 3 | you see and they 're asking for people who could ref who could , you know , give references to cos like put all these , all , down on these different things that you want like you know , say you want but then a lot of people just put down small business and management , something like that . |
| 4 | Not only was the traditional ideal of union between church and state relinquished but also the Council stressed the responsibility of the church to pass moral judgements , even on matters touching the political order , whenever basic personal rights or the salvation of souls make such judgements necessary . |
| 5 | Under s.26(2) , a plan of the premises need not be lodged but only a site plan is required until the provisional grant is affirmed . |
| 6 | Long — well , perhaps not that long-ago , in a drowsy Melbourne suburb called Surrey Hills , where Christmas came but once a year and the rest of the time there was the telly , you could say life was dull . |
| 7 | It 's still not clear exactly what happened but somehow the electricity surged into the ground around the pole . |
| 8 | Rooms must be allocated and charted on the reservation and room status charts so that not only the clients get the type of accommodation they have requested but also the hotel achieves the maximum occupancy of the rooms . |
| 9 | Bill goes behind Doug to help but suddenly the line slackens , and flutters in the wind . |
| 10 | ‘ I would like to help but then the business is not entirely in my hands . |
| 11 | Saturday arrived but still no luggage . |
| 12 | One result of this difference of reference is that it is possible to construct sentences which will be analytic or contradictory on the one interpretation but not on the other : ( 11 ) Nikolai offered us the message decoded but it was not decoded when he offered it to us 4.2 One curious feature about these adjectives is that they somehow seem to modify not only the noun which they accompany but simultaneously the verb as well ; if this is a genuine observation it will be surprising on general grounds , since it would be decidedly abnormal in syntax for one element to simultaneously qualify two different items . |
| 13 | A reply was received but again no luck . |
| 14 | Experts in international law agreed that , should Noriega succeed in establishing his claim for POW status , not only would the terms of his current imprisonment be radically altered but also the scope of any possible sentence . |
| 15 | She entertained but fleetingly the notion of ringing the Bishop . |
| 16 | By ‘ crisis ’ , the head of cultural affairs means not only the need to economise but also the fragility of the administrative structure . |
| 17 | In many cases , identification of workers with the enterprise which employs them may be only weakly formed but again a community of interest may be established at this level , depending perhaps on the degree of ‘ paternalism ’ of the management , the character of employment conditions in the enterprise , and the degree of craft skill or other interesting aspect of work within the enterprise . |
| 18 | The family member also progressively adapts so that the effects of the disease are largely the progressive effects of that adaptation — The disease always gets worse if it is not treated but nonetheless the family member develops ways in which he or she can somehow live with the disease . |
| 19 | It is not only the wildlife and the plants that will be affected but also the public who do not ski . |
| 20 | Trent reached the point which he had marked but now the current was that much stronger and he needed to be at the bridge . |
| 21 | There was approximately thirty pupils attended the school when I first started but now the number has dropped to twenty three children . |
| 22 | Similarly , with the various aspects of stock work , careful and skilful handling not only reduced the time and effort of the person involved but also the stress to the stock . |
| 23 | The champagne corks popped but then the reporter told us the house had been repossessed . |
| 24 | He continued to look her up and down , with no evidence of warmth at what he saw but just a tightening of the hard lips and that aloof dark stare she had already witnessed . |
| 25 | With the new machinery in operation , it is not only flexibility that has increased but also the ability to accommodate an increased diversity of product range . |
| 26 | You know they do But anyway the point I was making was that they call it distant intimacy . |
| 27 | When the child takes the occasional mouthful she can smile and praise but otherwise no attention should be given to the food refusal . |
| 28 | They enclose all pastures ; they throw down houses ; they pluck down towns , and leaving nothing standing but only the church to be made into a sheep-house … the husbandmen be thrust out of their own , or else by covin and fraud or by violent oppression they be put besides it , or by wrongs and injuries they be so wearied , that they be compelled to sell all . |
| 29 | Part-timers or job-sharers are increasing but still a rarity in the middle or higher levels of management . |
| 30 | Well you must have left but then the bet was if Charlie could do it and do something like splits in the middle or something , ca n't remember what it was , then I w |