Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] but [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Wilson did put some flesh on the bones in a television interview with Norman Hunt , only to have it torn off in strips by the venerable Bridges , long since retired but still a determined advocate of a unitary Treasury dominating economic policy from the centre .
2 erm , and they did remarkably well , you know , taking it over , they were really very acceptable at the end , but the whole programme had this sub-plot of how antagonistic most of the prison officers were , not all of them , cos they obviously has some support to keep it going , but a lot of them were antagonistic towards what was going on , and not only that but just the the prison system , you know , this chap got transferred from one prison to another , when he was mid-way through rehearsals , you know , I mean why should n't he have stayed there ,
3 As with all the other special effects of camp environment , those produced by sex starvation were not organically different but merely the ordinary trends aggravated and emphasized .
4 For the mayor of that city it is less terrible but still a serious problem .
5 Kogan also points out that bureaus are rarely composite elements with a single set of preferences : ‘ educational bureaucracy in Britain is not only multi-level but also a strongly divided group at any one level .
6 Erm I think that Vince has raised of very personal questions that we have ask about this erm the question of local accountability of the health authority board that will be created by this the to service this new joint health authority , would in fact , be the size of the existing one for West Essex and we would ha , have only a third of the representation that we currently have the whole of West Essex we 'll only have two non- executive members on the health authority board and I do n't think that that is terribly accountable but certainly a considerable reduction on what we 've got at the moment .
7 There was a lady in a hat , only one but quite a one .
8 ‘ I was thinking more of Pretty In Pink , but I really like the idea of music in films , where the song 's less incidental but more a part of the film .
9 Sometimes the plug is easily visible but normally a probe is used to detect its presence in the vagina .
10 The use of translation is the most obvious but not the only problem in the transmission of what are cultural as well as intellectual texts .
11 Successive reforms of local government administration , which have sought to make it more efficient , have produced a more rationalized but also a more centralized system , which has brought about a necessary decline in local autonomy .
12 The force on the mobile charges is still qE but now the charges may follow the electric field all the way around the ring .
13 The centrodorsal plate is usually conspicuous but not the primary plates .
14 There 's been a more limited but still a fairly substantial amount of work done in this country , and there has been nothing at all , we 've had done locally .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 Russians , the ‘ elder brother ’ of the Slavic as well as of the other Soviet peoples , were not just the most numerous but also the dominant national grouping in the USSR as a whole .
18 The wheel , at Laxey , pumps water from the lead mines , now disused but once a major source of employment for Manxmen .
19 ‘ The manager must be flexible but consistent , culturally diverse but recognisably an individual with his own identity .
20 This ‘ newness ’ , which is not really new but more an expansion of the rigid barriers of the individual self so that we see something as if we were not ourselves , is , I believe , one of the attributes of authentic , pleasurable art .
21 16 year old Zara Wolseley , from Belfast and Philip Cooper , now 19 but still the current 18 and under National Junior Champion , are the latest recruits to the Dewhurst Tennis Academy .
22 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 .
23 Ah well sure but then the whole lot goes , but , but , but , but , but this was , this was the document , I mean the way this was put forward , this is going to last us through into the foreseeable future .
24 I hope everything is running smoothly , including the car and the piano , and of course woozle-cat — tell her I have a pet cockroach in my bedroom which is quite large but not a good substitute .
25 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 .
26 The material means of music are rationally quantifiable but not the mysteries of their application .
27 It 's a big stage event with a very abstract brief , very exciting but not a fancy dress show . ’
28 the advances made have been very exciting but not every knitter wants to go too ‘ high tec ’ .
29 This style of painting was obviously very popular but thankfully the English developed landscape painting away from the picturesque reaching their apogee with Turner and Constable .
30 Alright then , maybe not that much but quite a lot .
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