Example sentences of "but [adv] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Key here was the influence of non-western cultural forms on Artaud — first the foregrounding of actors ' movements and the absence of props in Japanese theatre ; then his exposure to Cambodian dance in 1922 ; but most importantly the Balinese Dance Theatre which Artaud witnessed at the Colonial Exhibition in Paris in 1931 , after which he wrote a succession of now canonical theoretical essays on theatre .
2 But most importantly the Cosy Bouncer has three easily adjustable positions .
3 All these references , but most obviously the second and especially the third , are potentially sociological , but they involve very different kinds of analysis from the tracing of direct relations of content or of form .
4 But mostly now the Saudi people only want to kill Saddam . ’
5 During Teotihuaca/n times in the Veracruz wetlands there may have been occasional impounding of swamp water late in the dry season but perhaps not the sustained maintenance of water levels as happened in the chinampas .
6 But so much the better ; not every 80-year-old survives an entirely new experience so succesfully .
7 It was hard lying , but so much the better , he would be in no danger of falling asleep .
8 Of course , Doumen has sent out many a favourite from his Chantilly yard during his career , but so far the British punters have either totally ignored his cross-Channel raiders or found one or two homegrown contenders to prefer .
9 But so far the public debate has in general been shrouded by the classic paradigm of totally opposed viewpoints , ie in terms of enthusiasts , supportative of AT overall , and opponents , usually favouring nuclear power or other conventional schemes .
10 Each has proven ideal as a starter design , capable of all the intricate manoeuvres sufficient to satisfy the novice but obviously not the demanding competition flyer .
11 Doctor Nesbitt had suggested that the shock had perhaps temporarily deranged him , and up till this moment he had agreed with him , but suddenly now the young fellow seemed to know what he was about .
12 Many of the early stations on these lines were portable buildings or baggage cars , but soon both the Canadian Northern and the Grand Trunk Pacific developed standard designs in categories ranging from one to three or four .
13 The Armaments Inspectorate at Nuremberg , commenting on the successful concealment of preparation for the invasion , noted that ‘ the concentration of numerous troops in the eastern areas had allowed speculation to arise that significant events were afoot there , but nevertheless probably the overwhelming proportion of the German people did not think of any warlike confrontation with the Soviet Union ’ .
14 And also , of course , the reference to Orpheus , a figure who clearly haunted Milton 's imagination as that of the poet of enormous power but somehow also the natural victim .
15 Slowly , he moved nearer to me , but just then the first wild man began to get up from the ground .
16 But once again the amazing " Alligator " Jones proves that " impossible " is n't in her dictionary !
17 But once again the prospective change was lost in further postponements of a general revaluation .
18 But once again the thorny issue of bolts in West Penwith is raised .
19 The constant is the head , variously rendered but always recognisably the same basic structure .
20 If you disagree with , say , one point out of ten in your own side 's case ( but preferably not the main point ) , it adds to your credibility as a witness .
21 The sense of solitude and peace that surrounds these poems , where Coleridge is either alone , or with his sleeping baby or wife , in comfortable instances of reflection , and finally harmony , rests in contradiction with not only the vitality but more importantly the terrifying power that Kubla Khan possesses .
22 Around the towns , but more particularly the small rural communities in Sussex , the Saxon monarchs built a careful legal and local government structure , reinforcing the social hierarchies but carefully giving each man rights and dues according to his place .
23 Similarly , the Iran-Contra deal indicates not only the differences between US statements and actions over terrorism , but more revealingly the Iranian government 's willingness to engage in Realpolitik .
24 And it should be recalled that in a very short time ( less than three months ) Harris mounted his 1,000-Plan to demonstrate what strategic bombing was all about , but more especially the main reason was to get the Navy and the Army off his back with their insistent and regular demands for bombers to bolster the parlous situation in their theatres of war .
25 In a few places , as in the lower Neretva valley , a breach in the mountain wall permits a gulf of Mediterranean air to penetrate inland , but more commonly the unbroken barrier shuts out the ameliorating influences from the sea .
26 The adult who will finally emerge is different from the child , but still recognizably the same person you once knew and understood .
27 But further up the social scale , unrewarded deference was often required , often with the constable being treated as simply another flunkey in uniform , an attitude that might provoke a retaliatory reaction .
28 Sweeney Agonistes takes its audience back not simply to what was seen as the childhood , even babyhood of ritual and civilization , but further down the evolutionary ladder to the most primitive level of that ‘ amorphous protoplasm ’ which makes up the human egg .
29 Winter sea ice covers some 12–13 x 10 6 km 2 of the Arctic basin , extending over most of the ocean surface ; the amount of sea ice varies from season to season , but usually only the southwestern Barents Sea north to Murmansk remains open to shipping .
30 A drought , described as the most severe since 1945 , had worsened in mid-1989 , affecting Andalucia and Castille-León in particular but also unprecedentedly the north-western region of Galicia .
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