Example sentences of "but [adv] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This deeper controversy sustains the debate between liberal interpretations of the modern law of contract , but paradoxically at the same time demonstrates its pointlessness . |
| 2 | The real criticism of Mr Pound is not to be directed against his theory as such , but rather at the hasty headlong fashion in which he presents it , at the logical confusion of his intellect when it is not performing the task which is specifically his own , that task being poetry . |
| 3 | She waddled cautiously across the living-room , glaring imperiously but ineffectively at the slopping water glasses . |
| 4 | I am prepared to argue that doing business involves , even at the lower levels in an organization but especially at the higher levels of management , semantic problem-solving ; for example , agreeing on boundaries , identifying individuals , establishing and maintaining classifications , conjecturing ways of doing things that belong in no existing formal schema . |
| 5 | The issue of such shares is treated as giving rise to an income tax liability on the recipient shareholder , but only at the higher rate of income tax . |
| 6 | Nature was given its due , but only at the southern tip of the marsh . |
| 7 | It was a representation , in effect , as to the future , namely , that payment of the rent would not be enforced at the full rate but only at the reduced rate . |
| 8 | There have been one or two double-handers but not at the highest level . |
| 9 | But not at the first interview . |
| 10 | The tobacco trade has become part of Gibraltar culture and is legal there , but not at the other end . |
| 11 | Michael Lynagh is still rattling along towards the four-figure mark but not at the same rate . |
| 12 | The other end of the bridle has to be tied in a similar way at the rear of the spine , but not at the very tip . |
| 13 | Sometimes a head-on collision with a lorry seems inevitable , but somehow at the last moment we or they swerve out of the way . |
| 14 | But somehow at the same time I am washing myself — I 'm trying to get the filth off myself . |
| 15 | Life had caught up with her , her job , her problems , but always at the very back of her mind the dream remained — Andalucía and a brilliant , handsome man on horseback , secret gardens with wrought-iron gates , fierce fighting bulls and beautiful Arab horses . |
| 16 | The other main formulation is the rule of acting in such a way that you treat humanity , whether in your own person or in the person of any other , never simply as a means , but always at the same time as an end . |
| 17 | We ought , he said , to ‘ treat humanity whether in your own person , or in the person of any other , never simply as a means , but always at the same time as an end ’ ( Kant , 1948 , para. 429 ) . |
| 18 | One of the most important areas of credit management is risk assessment , not only looking at the individual customer companies concerned , but also at the current financial background in which they operate . |
| 19 | This significance is visible not only at the ideological and cultural level , but also at the economic and political level . |
| 20 | But the instructions were no more effective here than in the Ukraine , and , as we shall see , it was Georgia that came to sum up Lenin 's revulsion not only at the implementation of Party policy in the national field , but also at the general evolution of the Party . |
| 21 | Disquiet among supporters of the regime was to be found not only in the St Petersburg ministries but also at the imperial court and in the provinces . |
| 22 | She felt angry inside , not only at her father 's stupid bragging but also at the young man 's attitude towards him . |
| 23 | It took me some time to put the fantastic story of the Gauguin inheritance behind me — not out of my mind , but to the back of it , not only because I wondered if they might deteriorate , but also at the bizarre irony of a family sitting on a fortune which they refused to touch . |
| 24 | The General and Municipal union 's white collar section ( MATSA ) has started an experimental recruitment campaign aimed not just at " non-standard " workers who are part-time and temporary but also at the self-employed . |
| 25 | At its best such a book will not only provide a satisfying solution to the murder puzzle which it still must have , but also at the same time the solution of the mystery should reveal finally what it was the novel had to say . |
| 26 | He discusses the politeness dimension not only in the relationship between the fictional personae in the textual world , but also at the macroscopic level , i.e. between reader and writer . |
| 27 | Or something perhaps … moving through space forwards but back at the same time , as if I consisted of anti-matter for ever cancelled out … as if in all our words and gestures , acts and attitudes we effected some sort of parallel penetration into whatever had originated them , their primeval atom , with built-in unstableness. ( 107–108/303–4 ) |
| 28 | Until recent years the general rule has been to require the consent of a parent or guardian for an operation or an anaesthetic on a person of under 21 , but increasingly at the present time it is becoming customary to accept the consent of minors aged 16 and over . |
| 29 | In practice , not all fires were used at the peak , but even at the higher real prewar price levels , research had shown that only about a third of the costs imposed by the peak space heating demand were being recovered in contemporary domestic tariffs . |
| 30 | But even at the grand old age of 28 , he was keen to give it a go . |