Example sentences of "[adj] but [adv] [art] [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 | Underlining this was not only a sense of what was proper but also a sense of what was politically and socially wise . |
| 6 | Yet , at the same time , there has not , in most cases , been a sharp break between one way of life and another but rather a process involving subtle shifts in emphasis , whereby one set of relationships — kin , friends and neighbours — take on new significances in place of or in addition to older or earlier established relationships . |
| 7 | Denys Zacharopoulos , one of its three curators , says : ‘ The museum is like a voodoo fetish , the artist a sorcerer but also a prisoner ’ |
| 8 | Alright then , maybe not that much but quite a lot . |
| 9 | The following four German folktales relating to this theme , as collected by the Grimm brothers in the nineteenth century , are typical but only a fraction of the many variants known . |
| 10 | In no manner does the birth of this child put the other out of my mind nor can I accept he is a substitute but rather a reminder as if God wished to show me what I have lost and reprimand me for my carelessness . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | Alternatively there may be no marks as such but simply a set of grades to which the quality of pupils ' work may be assigned directly . |
| 13 | Sometimes the plug is easily visible but normally a probe is used to detect its presence in the vagina . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The Tsar 's authority remained unlimited but almost every area of public life was affected , and in preparing the reforms the government slackened censorship and gave unprecedented opportunity for different sections of society to air their grievances . |
| 16 | ‘ The manager must be flexible but consistent , culturally diverse but recognisably an individual with his own identity . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | Begbroke seemed ideal but then the vicar started laying down the law . |
| 20 | In Manchester , as in Scotland , it was a good night for Labour but overall the result was still devastating . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Indeed , we suspect that a rule which was never broken would not be a rule in our sense at all but rather an inevitability with the logical status of a law . |
| 24 | All the other players you hear about from time to time , Charlton , Giles , Hunter et all but never a word about Harvey . |
| 25 | If you are going to take notes , let the candidate know at this stage , explain that you do it for all the candidates , and that they are nothing sinister but simply a memory aid . |
| 26 | The law relating to covenants is quite complex but basically a covenant is a legally-binding document by which you transfer some of your income to a charity for a stated period . |
| 27 | The trade could do more but essentially the sport needs money put in to the get the necessary kit , accommodation and instruction . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | They are not inaccessible but quite the reverse , and they have their original working use still . ’ |