Example sentences of "[adv] but [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Major keeps his elbows on the table , and claps his fingers together but not the base of his hands , which makes him look rather like a seal . |
| 2 | Oh it could be stormy right enough but well the steamer might call at Rousay at that time and they would land the goods in Rousay the perishables for Wyre and when the weather abated we would get it from there . |
| 3 | The Magistrate , standing in hesitation on the verandah , was illuminated by a rare shaft of watery sunlight for a moment and his whiskers flared more brilliantly than ever but then the sun moved on , extinguishing them . |
| 4 | Armstrong replied , in a later number of the same journal , that it is simply an empirical fact about our proprioceptive powers that we are able to perceive the heat of our hand directly but not the roughness of its surface . |
| 5 | French and Jewish ‘ influence ’ went hand in hand for many Germans and allowed Völkisch opinion on the matter to flourish : slowly but surely the word Völk came to mean not simply ‘ people ’ , but also ‘ populist ’ , and to imply a sense of common identity and of racial superiority over those peoples who needed the French to emancipate them . |
| 6 | Slowly but surely the mass of bodies was yielding … soon it would be forced out into the drawing-room like the cork out of a bottle of champagne . |
| 7 | Sheer tiredness relaxed her limbs , and slowly but surely the warmth sent her off to sleep . |
| 8 | Slowly but inexorably the band draws nearer . |
| 9 | If he is to be totally unbiased when making his observations , then he will be obliged to record not only the readings on various meters , the presence or absence of sparks at various critical locations in the electrical circuits , the dimensions of the circuit etc. but also the colour of the meters , the dimensions of the laboratory , the state of the weather , the size of his shoes and a whole host of ‘ clearly irrelevant ’ details , irrelevant , that is , to the kind of theory in which Hertz was interested and which he was testing . |
| 10 | Right but definitely the death in service . |
| 11 | The invention of pumps to draw the water up helped a little but not a lot . |
| 12 | These rights included not only an ability to continue using the property as before but also the right to rebuild or extend it , provided the original building was not exceeded by more than ten per cent . |
| 13 | Sunny at first tomorrow but then the forecast for the rest of Tuesday , More showers expected . |
| 14 | Sunny spells for tomorrow but still a chance with showers . |
| 15 | See if I can find you a picture of a of a , I 've got a picture of a Roman legionnaire here but not the standard bearer . |
| 16 | Water , water everywhere but not a drop to drink — because it 's all gone down the sink ! |
| 17 | Halcyon days indeed but now the trio have broken up and McWilliams after another brief spell in England is back searching around for mounts . |
| 18 | It had rained overnight but now the sun was breaking through and the scene had a certain gaiety . |
| 19 | A Land Rover mechanic replaced the stabiliser unit behind the dash — the fuel gauge worked again but not the temperature gauge . |
| 20 | This is of course , symptomatic of the dealers worldwide but somehow the club here in Britain is so much smaller . |