Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] but [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Manchester , as in Scotland , it was a good night for Labour but overall the result was still devastating . |
| 2 | That any pricing system adopted recognises the budgetary context as indicated both by the size of DSS transfer and placement rates for 1993/94 but also the inflationary pressures inherent in the adoption of explicit ceilings to which prices may converge . |
| 3 | With the first instance , we touch on the mysteries of death ; we should be careful not to make too much of the Great Mother as a goddess of birth and death ; she is not the originator of these but rather the one who shapes the coming and guides the going of each life . |
| 4 | he 'll eat raw carrot and things like that but otherwise the only vegetables he 'll eat are potatoes he eats |
| 5 | The engine capacity was reduced even further , to 1½ litres in 1926 but then a Formula Libre , with no engine size legislation , came into force in 1928 . |
| 6 | I understand it 's run into some difficulty but I urge the minister to press the commission to get a move on because this this is a problem that does n't just affect this country , it is certainly a problem that affects the whole of Europe and the European union in particular but also the the er the whole of the world and it 's something that needs international action . |
| 7 | The Kefauver report is mentioned in passing but neither the Hubert Humphrey follow-up , nor Morton Mintz 's massive By Prescription Only , nor Rick Carlson 's The End of Medicine get so much as a mention . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The world would remain unshaken over this but maybe the constable would have a gentle word with the unthinking reverser . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This type occurs where the accused represents the truth to another but afterwards the facts change and the accused does not inform the victim that the facts have changed . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Some backward tribes inhabited the remoter mountains and jungles but the main population was of the same race ; today they are known as Vietnamese but then the outside world knew them as Annamites or Annamese . |
| 14 | This awareness was a growing one , not a sudden flash of illumination , not a conversion at all but rather a slow , painful , at times embarrassing progress towards competence in communicating with deaf people . |
| 15 | In some cases this may even mean not using a page makeup package at all but rather a high-powered word processor like Lotus Manuscript , Word or WordPerfect 5.0 . |
| 16 | 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 . |