Example sentences of "[adj] but [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1987 he returned to the UK not only with fluency in Japanese but also with a Japanese wife , Nako . |
| 2 | ‘ Discuss , with reference to at least two plays , how tragedy can be enacted not only upon the individual but also upon a family ’ |
| 3 | The oral shield is rounded , rhombic but sometimes with a slight distal projection ; the proximal edge is often complete rounded and not angular . |
| 4 | DBG Acquired by RBG in 1979 but still without a guidebook . |
| 5 | That because I 've used those before not for golfing or anything like that but just as a general map of reference or |
| 6 | And would they still get the income support after that but still at a reduced rate or not ? |
| 7 | The staff are working as normal but only on a week-to-week basis . |
| 8 | She seemed to be eased by talking of her daughter , and by the time she stopped , apologetically , and drank some tea poured for her by Catherine , she looked exhausted but less like a wraith . |
| 9 | Whether or not he was altogether comfortable in such a role is another matter ; when Lawrence Durrell once suggested to him that he was not a Christian at all but more like a Buddhist or a primitive he replied only with a question , " Perhaps they have n't found me out yet ? " |
| 10 | The offence is committed not just by a trader who supplies consumer goods that are not reasonably safe but also by a trader who agrees or offers to supply them or exposes or possesses them for supply . |
| 11 | A range of studies have demonstrated the vitality of the parent-child tie , sustained not only by visiting but also by a flow of assistance of various kinds in both directions . |
| 12 | They emerged dry-eyed but also with a dry heart . |
| 13 | The effect of NO synthase inhibition was not only indicated by an increase in the maximal response induced by CCK-8 but also by a prolonged duration of the response . |
| 14 | So important is this factor in shaping the evolution of man that Freud , in a number of places in his works , 9 but principally in a footnote to Civilization and its Discontents , comments at length on the way in which the adoption of an erect posture in man produced what he termed an ‘ organic repression ’ which paved the way for civilization . |
| 15 | As you know I 've er been holding a number of er small meetings with staff er and one of the questions I 've been asking is whether or not there has been a need for the building presentation that we 've done for a couple of years er and generally there was the view expressed that yes it was desirable but perhaps in a different format . |