Example sentences of "but [adv] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A SHE reader did once attempt to send me a sample of her fluid , but most unfortunately the bottle broke in the post with disastrous results ! |
| 2 | But most certainly the road to the latter , with its decadence and exploitation , has been made a great deal smoother , shorter and more popular by the compromise and self-interest of the clerics and assorted fellow travellers of the so-called ‘ new morality ’ school . |
| 3 | ‘ We are the biggest club in football not to have had any recent success , but right now the city is rocking . |
| 4 | ‘ But perhaps not a place to die . ’ |
| 5 | Erm , and so on , so , so , so this was the , this was the , er this is what I was trying to do , try and contrast the use of psychoanalysis in , in biography , from character assassination on one hand , to hagiography at the other , and with Freud 's Woodrow Wilson somewhere in , in between , but perhaps nearer the character assassination end , because erm , neither of them , er neither of the authors were , really had , had much of a brief of Woodrow Wilson . |
| 6 | A suitable level of abstraction confers enormous benefits in devising simple and powerful documents ( but so often the abstraction only feels ‘ 90% correct ’ , leaving the remaining 10% maddeningly awkward and inelegant ) . |
| 7 | When the losses are recognized for what they are then the healing of the pain can begin , but so often the loss is so deeply buried in people 's minds that it can take a long while for it to come to the surface again . |
| 8 | But so often the challenge is not met and the result is a wishy-washy moral parable . |
| 9 | " They came round again to see if they could find any more clues , " Sara said , " but so far a blank ; and also , I don think anything was stolen , thanks to you . |
| 10 | Doctors are working hard , but so far a cure for HIV and AIDS has not been found . |
| 11 | Certainly there is abundant evidence for the extraction of salt from sea water around the Wash , but so far no settlement has been found to match the name ; on the distance from London alone , it ought to lie in the Sleaford or Heckington area . |
| 12 | Plants like these are very likely to have been among the earliest forms to colonise the moist margins of the land , but so far no fossil relics of undoubted mosses have been discovered from this early period . |
| 13 | Further extensive tests are still being carried out on other samples but so far no trace of Miss Larkin , 24 , has been found . |
| 14 | In November Coun Thorne-Wallis , who represents Haughton West ward , telephoned British Rail about the missing fencing below Wylam Hill near Thompson Street East but so far no action has been taken . |
| 15 | But so far the majority have reported no problems after six months . |
| 16 | But so far the IFA have had no communication from the English FA , ITV or Manchester United ( away to Honved ) over potential compensation . |
| 17 | But so far the work force of 330 white collar staff have shown no sign of militant action . |
| 18 | But so far the Government has resisted , deciding that this species is already under too much pressure . |
| 19 | to take account of this previously unforeseen workplace hazard , but so far the Commission have brought forward no proposals . |
| 20 | Ms Mackenzie first approached the Environmental Committee last May , but so far the result has n't been encouraging . |
| 21 | But so far the reverse is the case . |
| 22 | Rhodes could well become a double international as he is in the South African national hockey squad , but so far the hockey union has n't followed cricket down the integration path and cricket at the moment takes first place on his agenda . |
| 23 | That may be a wee indictment of the Government , but so far the argument is reasonably incontestable . |
| 24 | The show will open at Darlington Civic Theatre on April 29 for a two week run , but so far the search for a Young Walsingham has been fruitless . |
| 25 | It may cost me my job , but so far the PM has backed me . ’ |
| 26 | Police have interviewed almost five hundred people since , but so far the investigation has drawn a blank . |
| 27 | Then , as the rain cleared , the moon shone out to reveal what they had feared : one hundred and thirty tall-masted galleons , in perfect crescent formation , sailed slowly but purposefully up the channel coast . |
| 28 | With great courage she fought her way past Forgive 'N Forget , but halfway up the run-in Wayward Lad was still two lengths up . |
| 29 | Consider as an example cases where a person ( but only exceptionally an institution ) is said to be an authority on a certain matter , as in ‘ John is an authority on Chinese cooking ’ or ‘ Ruth is an authority on the stock exchange ’ . |
| 30 | Er the majority , but only just the majority of your assignments are complete and they are in six one eight to be picked up . |