Example sentences of "but [adv] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This facility requires a certain amount of sensitivity on your part but most certainly also needs to be developed through practice and attentiveness to details in the historical text . |
| 2 | Such is the experience of most of us when we go to bed late : we might sleep slightly later than usual but rarely long enough to compensate completely for the late night . |
| 3 | Saw Mum at the w/e — OK in health , but all too easily confused , and constantly obsessed about particular issues — keys , etc . |
| 4 | We are quick enough to admonish and complain and rebuke , but all too seldom do we actually give praise when either an outstanding achievement has been made , or even more rarely , when an outstanding effort has been made but has not succeeded . |
| 5 | Dorigo had a great game , I thought , but all too often seemed to have been left in sole command of the entire left side of the pitch — every time he went forward alone , large gaps appeared behind him , and the gaps were frequently filled by the ball and Sunderland players . |
| 6 | But all too often leaving no will could create yet another worry for your family at a time of bereavement and disruption at home . |
| 7 | In a letter posted shortly before departure , Aveling wrote , half ironically , but perhaps also partly believing the possibility existed , that he might make millions of dollars in America . |
| 8 | It 's passionately felt , for sure , but perhaps not adequately dramatised . |
| 9 | Wholly admirable , but perhaps not best expressed in terms of individual academic subjects , nor in a highly complex machinery of published testing and assessment . |
| 10 | You need to explain why one idea was better liked than another or whether an idea was appreciated , but perhaps not ideally expressed . |
| 11 | But is n't nature a very delicate balance between various forces and various processes , and by people , not like yourself , but perhaps more industrially based people producing vast quantities of a given compound and spreading it almost indiscriminately , could n't that erm seriously upset the balance of nature in a particular resource ? |
| 12 | 625–6 when Cwichelm , styled by Bede king of the West Saxons but perhaps more correctly thought of as a king in the upper Thames valley ( see above , pp. 48 ff. ) , sought to have Eadwine assassinated ; Eadwine 's retaliating attack , when he is said to have slain or subdued all those who had plotted against him ( HE 11 , 9 ) , confirms that he was reaching the height of his power by the mid-620s . |
| 13 | But perhaps so too does the silence of the past 4 days . |
| 14 | But perhaps this best sums up the case for the prosecution . |
| 15 | It is far larger than the CIA but much less well known . |
| 16 | In the school system , curricular changes were introduced gradually , but the goal was to make education not only more relevant to everyday life but much more closely tied to the world of work . |
| 17 | A Kaolin glacier was an example of the last-named ( Lewis and Miller , 1955 ) but much more extensively used have been measurements using rainfall simulators especially in relation to erosion experiments , flumes , wave tanks and wind tunnels . |
| 18 | Typical whirring gamebird in flight , but much more often heard than seen . |
| 19 | The feedback currently available indicates that the numbers of women reading engineering have increased to 15% ( from 7.8% in 1982–83 ) , but much more still remains to be done and industry 's most pressing problem in the 1990s will be to attract , recruit and retain the high calibre of technologically literate young people they will need . |
| 20 | But much more still needs to be done to make people aware of the potential . |
| 21 | A similar but somewhat more conventionally presented set of controls is also available on the system 's remote control handset ( an extra cost item ) , an unusually well built device which does not come from the Philips parts bin , though it does obey Philips commands . |
| 22 | Hazel had eaten various roots in his life , but only once before had he tasted carrot , when a cart-horse had spilt a nose-bag near the home warren . |
| 23 | Sometimes , but only very rarely do I touch a piece of bliss when I grope in the dark . |
| 24 | ATF1 interacts with P100 but only very weakly compared with CREB ( figure 6B , compare lanes 1 and 2 ( which contain two different extracts ) with lanes 3 and 4 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ Contracts in gross ’ , as they were called , had been considered by the Office as early as 1812 , but only very occasionally used and never for a project the size of the Foreign Office . |
| 26 | Sometimes parents are very upset and angry , but only very occasionally do they take the extreme course of making girls leave home . |
| 27 | Pardy 's previous convictions were of a relatively trivial nature , being ordered out of several county towns by magistrates for persistently collecting without a licence in the street — rattling his tin in support of a variety of causes but only very recently turning his attention to those connected with animals . |
| 28 | She now flapped her hand as if shooing something away , then went out of the kitchen and onto the landing , and here , as she had before , she stopped , but only long enough to raise her eyes to the whitewashed ceiling as her mind said , Dear God , do n't let anything come of this . |
| 29 | This is the really thorny question , but only relatively recently has it begun to receive the attention it merits . |
| 30 | He had already advised Donleavy in his bi-weekly reports that Hurley 's security arrangements were derisory , that all sorts of people with no clear allegiance were wandering in and out of NARCOG , ostensibly selling information but just as likely collecting it ; that agents and bona fide informants were being put at risk because of this , and that future DEA or inter-agency operations might well be fatally compromised from the start . |