Example sentences of "but [adv] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | Odd-Knut had a Viking shock of blond hair , but little other resemblance to the Hollywood Norseman . |
| 3 | In the meantime , however , the Cubans sought to gain at least a breathing space by making a little known but highly significant approach to the United States . |
| 4 | Wallis made a small but highly original contribution to the art and connoisseurship of his time . |
| 5 | The member for Worcester City was on this occasion one of the dozen or so gentlemen who , after most late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century general elections , as a sort of ritual but somewhat haphazard sacrifice to virtue made by an easy-going society , were unseated on petition for allegedly corrupt electoral practices . |
| 6 | They had no gardens but only tiny yards to the rear . |
| 7 | DDR citizens have a right to a passport but only conditional rights to a visa for departure . |
| 8 | Foucault argues that just as there can be no general theory of history , but only particular answers to particular questions which make individual practices intelligible , so the intellectual can best hope to be specific rather than universal ( universal in the sense of proposing transcendent values , systems , totalities , narratives or teleologies ) . |
| 9 | In this experiment , only Group M is learning on Day 2 , whilst Group N is repeating similar but already learned behaviour to that of Group M. Immediately after the trial on Day 2 we took the birds and looked for the expression of one of the immediate early genes , c-jun . |
| 10 | While there seems to have been a major but largely unmeasured swing to Labour during the war , the pre-war electoral situation revealed no great reaction against the National government . |
| 11 | Import tariffs imposed by each Western country can also vary , depending on the countries involved , and makes a small , but not insignificant difference to the price . |
| 12 | It is logical that they revealed an intimate but not servile attachment to the achievements of past master sculptors . |
| 13 | From the generalizations , theory is then built up , tentatively at first , and perhaps very low-level and crude , but always referable back to the original scientific observations . |
| 14 | Well , on the specific issue , which is item one three two , are we agreed that we write quite clear but nonetheless firm letter to Mr Patten , explaining that we are minded to ask him to comment on these matters , it this time comes from the Chair and the Chief Officer about and perhaps he will therefore take it more seriously . |
| 15 | In the BZW forecast , Peter Thomson said the FT-SE index should be back to 2,100-2,200 by the end of this month and would at best hold its own next year but more likely fall to 1,800 , where it started this year . |
| 16 | When their cheques are cleared our bank will have fewer securities but more operational balances to its credit and its position will have improved . |
| 17 | Route Seventeen Account holders not only get easy access to their savings but also easy access to the experience and expertise of The Royal Bank of Scotland staff who will provide all the help and advice you need in the way you need it . |
| 18 | The successful colonization of the land from the original marine environment not only necessitated the production of entirely new means of acquiring oxygen and supporting the weight of the body , but also exposed animals to habitats of much greater variability in temperature , humidity , and other conditions . |
| 19 | Baldwin was an important but fairly silent auxiliary to MacDonald . |
| 20 | I look forward with considerable pleasure to our arrival at Flinders whither I proceed purposely to see the remnants of the inhabitants which once peopled this fine Island over which they were Lords and Masters but now submissive creatures to the wiles of Englishmen . |
| 21 | Try these natural but equally effective alternatives to unpleasant chemicals : Dried lavender is effective at discouraging both flies and moths . |
| 22 | : encouraging for Festival director Nikki Milican , and an indication that her vision in bringing less well-established but visually exciting performers to Scotland is more than paying off this year . |
| 23 | He waited for Siban to find a way to phrase the request which was so obviously his intent , but instead Siban rose to his feet and stalked away towards the door , his departure so abrupt that Alexei was taken by surprise . |