Example sentences of "[adj] but [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any event , additional land has been identified since which not only covers this but also the scale of shortfall reflected in the SEELPI Reporter 's recommendations . |
| 2 | The restrictions on newspaper advertising had no doubt contributed to this but perhaps the layout and phraseology of many of the Board 's own publications had made them unattractive to readers . |
| 3 | The world would remain unshaken over this but maybe the constable would have a gentle word with the unthinking reverser . |
| 4 | Shearman recalled that , at first , discussion with Hickson was unpromising but eventually the appointment of Pateman to the post , vacant from 1928 , was confirmed . |
| 5 | On Jan. 2 units of the OMON or " Black Berets " , a paramilitary police force formed by the USSR Interior Ministry in 1987 , seized Riga 's main press building , recently nationalized but previously the property of the pro-Moscow Latvian Communist Party ( CP ) . |
| 6 | In the case of a patient with a very high level , say 9 , that would bring it down to 7 but then the level will probably remain static . |
| 7 | The disk is round , to slightly pentagonal , diameter up to 13 mm ; covered by trifid spinelets , rarely the spinelets may be more elaborate but often the crown is indistinct and the spinelets appear to be rugose . |
| 8 | If nothing is done , the regulations already passed will continue improving air quality until the mid-1990s but then the growth in population , and car numbers , will send pollution rising again , indefinitely . ’ |
| 9 | Begbroke seemed ideal but then the vicar started laying down the law . |
| 10 | In Manchester , as in Scotland , it was a good night for Labour but overall the result was still devastating . |
| 11 | He seemed to have kicked his heroin addiction and given up his unorthodox lifestyle three years ago when he married Becky Few-Brown but soon the marriage broke down . |
| 12 | Vigorously opposed by a number of clubs the IRFU has stood firm but ironically the flow of foreigners has continued , albeit in a different direction . |
| 13 | Its personal computer network protocol support is good but not the equal of Unix at its best . |
| 14 | The trade could do more but essentially the sport needs money put in to the get the necessary kit , accommodation and instruction . |
| 15 | Eventually in 1858 Earl Stanhope moved in the House of Lords that the Queen should be petitioned by Parliament to remove from the Prayer Book the services which commemorated not only the death of Charles I but also the accession of Charles II in 1660 , the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 , and the landing of William of Orange in 1688 . |
| 16 | The central development of courses and units will assist this process , as not only will HN unit exemplars be made widely available but also the experience and staff development received by NDOs and Unit Writers at SCOTVEC will be extremely valuable and will be put to good use by their respective colleges . |
| 17 | They are not inaccessible but quite the reverse , and they have their original working use still . ’ |
| 18 | An oval orbit would falsify the first but not the second , whereas any orbit that falsifies the second will also falsify the first . |
| 19 | Some MPs and peers were in favour of one but not the other . |
| 20 | IT IS not irrational for a jury to decide that the first of two co-accused acted in concert with the second but that the second co-accused did not act in concert with the first , because the case against each accused must be considered separately and there may be evidence which is admissible against one but not the other . |
| 21 | The shift in winds as the international economy moved from the extravagant eighties to the uncharted nineties has been evident for sometime but only the master helmsman could have kept afloat until now . |
| 22 | In other words , at the factor prices ruling , the demand for factors is such that the constraint on capital is binding but not the constraint on labour ( we do not go into the dynamic adjustment process by which this rationed equilibrium has been reached ) . |
| 23 | Information obtained retrospectively from case notes is unreliable but generally the correspondence to be found in case notes showed the clinician 's reason for referring a patient and gave reliable clues to the prediction of the result . |
| 24 | They were er a grade five , that was the lowest inspector , grade four But eventually the grade er five and four were done away with . |
| 25 | The term ‘ an efficient farm ’ has defied description from many authorities but from this survey it appeared that it was not a farm or a system or an enterprise that was efficient but rather the man who ran it . |
| 26 | These things have always been expensive but now the cost is terrifying . |
| 27 | Charles Dudgeon , operations director at the Stevenage plant said : ‘ Following the acquisition many changes were introduced and performance suffered as the market reacted with apprehension to the unknown but now the wisdom of the shake-up is evident . ’ |
| 28 | Comparing Figs. 3.4(a) and 3.4(b) it is apparent that not only are the characteristics still sinusoidal but also the value of peak static torque is unchanged . |
| 29 | That he knew of death 's approach and had time to prepare for it , and that others knew and were preparing too , is implied not only by S 975 but also the rapidity of the ætheling Alfred 's actions late in the year . |
| 30 | But you see the thing is , that 's true but sometimes the way they deal with it , they deal with it say eight weeks , so which makes it what ? |