Example sentences of "but [adv] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also felt that consequent uncertainty in the bookselling trade would lead booksellers to place smaller initial orders for new titles , and that rising prices and the axing of valuable but commercially marginal titles from publishers ' lists would ensue ( both of the latter effects have , in fact , to some extent ensued , in spite of the judgement ) . |
| 2 | It has come from people who are well informed about the governors ' aspect of management , who know how to take the influence and information of parents into account and who , because they have taken part in one specific but widely shared exercise in adult education , have had the chance to understand and contribute to a wide field of public and community affairs ( Sallis 1988 ) . |
| 3 | Hers is a performance of indisputable class making little but tremendously effective use of her famous fluttering gestures . |
| 4 | Despite the inconvenience of counting large numbers the twenty-four-hour system persisted for centuries in Italy , but most other countries of western Europe soon adopted the system in which the hours were counted in two sets of twelve from midnight and from noon , respectively . |
| 5 | Some married well , but most married back into the working class from which they had come . |
| 6 | In her study of 61 white mothers conducted in London in 1983–4 , Wilson ( 1987 ) found that none relied upon their children 's grandparents to carry the main burden of child care while they themselves went out to work , but most regarded grandmothers as support which they could use on a more casual basis for babysitting , and as help in emergencies . |
| 7 | But most overseas buyers of the clothes are not sports fans — they are slaves to the fashion for Americana . |
| 8 | This in-depth tour gives you the chance to visit Burma , one of the least known but most exciting destinations in Asia . |
| 9 | There was also the unexpected but most gratifying development of the girl 's jealous lover and his mate beating Tyler within an inch of his life . |
| 10 | Strikingly good-looking and energetically homosexual , he conducted a long but conspicuously unsuccessful search amongst working-class men for ‘ the Ideal Friend ’ . |
| 11 | And after Mass , accompanied by great hand shaking I was asked to pass on thanks to the Christians in Salford for their support but mostly great thanks for sharing our priest with them . |
| 12 | So far we have considered the significance of attachment in relation to the fundamental but rather general issue of whether it is safe to rely upon others at all . |
| 13 | The dynamic driving-force of the ‘ Hitler myth ’ allowed , in fact , no stabilization or ‘ normalization ’ , but rather conditioned circumstances in which the traditional ‘ ruling class ’ became ever more subsumed in and dependent upon the ‘ behemoth ’ of the Nazi State which it was no longer able to control in its mad rush to destruction . |
| 14 | There was little elaboration as to how this was to be achieved , save occasional guidance notes ; otherwise there was reliance on the all-embracing , but rather vague idea of protecting ‘ amenity ’ ( Punter , 1987 ) . |
| 15 | In the afternoon , Guy Jennings presided over a tediously slow but rather successful sale of Contemporary Art at Christie 's . |
| 16 | It also has a short but rather wonderful section on feminism and humour — an undeserved absence in feminist cultural studies — and a timely recognition of the strength of women 's ‘ comic subversions ’ . |
| 17 | Children … are not vessels waiting to be filled up with knowledge , but rather active seekers of solutions to problems . |
| 18 | ( This reference to the task of childhood is rather my own effort to develop Spinoza 's own richly fruitful but rather abstract ideas in more concrete terms than a direct report upon what he says — the same goes for some other of my remarks . ) |
| 19 | In an interesting but rather elusive study of Methodism , which sees it as " the English counterpart to the democratic revolution " , the critical dynamic in a " modernisation " of English society which bypassed the need for revolution , Professor Semmel writes that Wesley primarily addressed his message to " The poor of the nascent proletariat of England 's growing factory towns " . |
| 20 | There is again a plume , but additionally horizontal layers of double diffusive convection spread out around this . |
| 21 | So had the Melchites , whose two communities — Greek Orthodox and Greek Catholics — form a small but economically powerful minority in modern Lebanon . |
| 22 | Nobody apart from an accredited lobby correspondent is allowed into the lobby room without prior invitation but eventually most members of the Cabinet as well as senior members of the Opposition find it desirable to seek an invitation to meet this group of journalists . |
| 23 | Mogridge prefers a more light-hearted but chronologically inaccurate version of events . |
| 24 | More residential social workers are receiving professional training but rarely specialist training on how to help change destructive behaviour and its underlying causes . |
| 25 | It is a basic but rarely articulated feature of the modern economic system that the highest pay is given for the work that is most prestigious and most agreeable . |
| 26 | Recent press reports disclose that Wall Street investment banker Dennis Levine , recently convicted and gaoled for insider trading , has written a book entitled Inside Out : An Insider 's Account of Wall Street for which he will receive an undisclosed , but presumably large amount of money . |
| 27 | It then proceeds through a concise , but remarkably comprehensive review of data gathering instruments and issues of access to respondents , before moving on to a brief consideration of data analysis and the process of writing up work to enable others to benefit from it . |
| 28 | Set against these developments , soccer hooliganism may be interpreted as ‘ attempts by certain sections of the class to assert some inarticulate , but keenly experienced sense of control over the game that was theirs ’ ( Taylor , 1971a:163 ) . |
| 29 | A move from consensus management , where a small , but arguably representative nucleus of people had at least some say in the decision-making , to a more dictatorial style known as ‘ general management ’ now means that decisions are made by one man or woman who may accept or reject the advice of interested parties , including nursing and medical advisers . |
| 30 | Is the Prime Minister aware that the Government 's decision to pay the mortgage element of income support direct to lenders is a welcome but wholly insufficient response to the crisis facing thousands of families in Britain because of home repossessions ? |