Example sentences of "[adv] but the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He clenched his teeth together but the first syllable forced itself around the corner of his mouth . |
| 2 | She talked to friends , not only about the happy times they 'd had together but the inevitable disappointments . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , I did n't know her personally but the other night like , I think it was her that we seen on the Woodham Road . ’ |
| 4 | The front seats are comfortable enough but the next row , well . |
| 5 | That had been bad enough but the sleepless night had got her worrying about her work . |
| 6 | The reality may well be that the enterprise is not competitive enough but the military metaphor is a way of bringing about this attitude . |
| 7 | Nick went to the local Primary because he was still young enough but the older children were given lessons by their own teachers in the Chapels . |
| 8 | So er , they had The Big Engine and I , I 've read that so but the small railway engines . |
| 9 | The wild fish grows to 20cm or so but the aquarium-kept specimen is unlikely to reach 15cm . |
| 10 | ‘ I suppose so but the whole set-up is as camp as a field full of tents . |
| 11 | So but the residual element which would carry on south through Harrogate is |
| 12 | The close relationship between some of these groups and their Soviet neighbours is immediately apparent from their names alone but the largest group , the Hui , are either descendants of Chinese converts to Islam or of Chinese intermarriages with Muslim immigrants . |
| 13 | Companion technologies such as page description languages and page printers have been developing apace but the real strides seem to be being made in the scanner market with both better grey scale capability and higher resolutions . |
| 14 | I used to pay them straight away but the big companies are n't paying us ! |
| 15 | Most of its soft top simply came away but the whole car seemed to move sideways . |
| 16 | As he grew older , the villages and tents and armies of this world were fading away but the white cities and the armies that lie beyond the senses shone more brightly by day and by night and Hamza hastened to death on roads lined by the army of Prophets . |
| 17 | I do n't usually buy that sort anyway but the last couple of |
| 18 | ‘ I have felt better physically but the notable improvement has been my state of mind . |
| 19 | Ranulf and the escort were told to wait outside but the lay brother was asked to come in for he could , as Corbett put it , ‘ talk in the common language ’ . |
| 20 | It is a scene far removed from the glare of the media spotlighting the battle raging outside but the painstaking work in the darkened room forms a vital link in the war machine ranged against Iraqi president Saddam Hussein . |
| 21 | The rain continued its rush and splash outside but the next clap of thunder was further off as the storm moved away . |
| 22 | I think that 's an important discussion to have elsewhere but the only figures that are available to us are using the labels that I 've got . |
| 23 | Details of this very large topic must be sought elsewhere but the principal exceptions are briefly as follows : |
| 24 | The details of the technique have been presented elsewhere but the main features are as follows . |
| 25 | Dealing through a third party made things more difficult than they were already but the young officer could n't deal with a situation like this and the Captain could n't risk not making himself perfectly understood . |
| 26 | The quarrying business saw sales and profits fall by 6 p.c. and 14 p.c. respectively but the concrete division 's profits improved 5 p.c. thanks to strong roof tile sales . |
| 27 | This gives Table 10.1 , so the optimal solution is still but the optimal value is . |
| 28 | Now I usually but the small number first , does n't matter . |
| 29 | The forces of change may be moving rapidly but the corporate response is slower , says Collis . |
| 30 | A miner had no fear of the dark he was used to underground but the permanent blackness was disconcerting . |