Example sentences of "but [adv] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But thankfully the two exters never got to me . |
| 2 | Occasionally , the film hits the right note , but mostly the disenchanted teenagers seem merely petulant , while the parents and shrinks are portrayed as either feckless drunks or mercenary medics . |
| 3 | The Egyptian newspaper Al-Jumhuriyah of Nov. 16 warned Bush against a military strike which would not " punish Kadhafi , but rather the Arab friends of the USA " . |
| 4 | It explains that accumulated losses do not , of themselves , necessarily require funding by the parent and that a debit balance does not represent an amount receivable from a minority , but rather the net liabilities attributable to the shares the minority shareholders hold in that subsidiary . |
| 5 | So , it is not the country of domicile of economic institutions or the classes that dominate them that is the primary consideration in explaining how the global system works , but rather the structural locations of institutions and classes in the global capitalist system . |
| 6 | But perhaps the royal sisters-in-law have done us all a favour by chipping away at these hypocritical accolades . |
| 7 | Sharpe knew the panic could not be controlled here , where the French columns filled the air with menace , but perhaps the sturdy walls of Gemioncourt would give these gunners some necessary reassurance . |
| 8 | But perhaps the precise reasons for its origin and the timing of its confirmation are not so important ; of greater significance is that it became a key precedent during the ensuing century for those who wished to restrict the outflow of money from the English church to the church universal and in particular to the Roman Curia ; its appeal to the interests of patrons whose intentions were thwarted or impaired by impositions on the houses so that ‘ infinite loss and disinheritance are like to ensue to the founders of the said houses and their heirs ’ was to reappear in the later statute of Provisors . |
| 9 | As with all the other special effects of camp environment , those produced by sex starvation were not organically different but merely the ordinary trends aggravated and emphasized . |
| 10 | Despite this Jon Newsome 's lovely new wife thinks he 's wonderful but apparently the other players ' wives think she 's a bit of a bimbo . |
| 11 | But obviously the heavier pieces of furniture , the more durable ones , are also the more expensive , and when it 's largely the money for them 's going to come out of the husband 's pocket they 're going to have more of a stake in erm in saying what they want . |
| 12 | In the darkness he could not see what went on further down the line , but obviously the same problems would prevail there . |
| 13 | It is not easy to define in any positive way the kinds of hotel within the scope of s. ( 3 ) HPA 1956 , but obviously the larger establishments such as major hotels are covered by s.1(3) , as are many more modest hotels . |
| 14 | But suddenly the sheer numbers of people quietly bedding down in doorways strikes me as an augury of Labour defeat . |
| 15 | ‘ Swainmotes ’ were held at Weybridge in Huntingdon Forest at Midsummer , Michaelmas and Martinmas in the middle of the fifteenth century , but only a few presentments of venison trespasses by husbandmen were presented by the foresters before the verderers between 1451 and 1455 . |
| 16 | ‘ We 've put people almost everywhere , ’ she said doubtfully , ‘ but only a few actors will be at the Holiday Inn … why do n't you try there ? |
| 17 | Tomorrow morning , just the odd light shower about anywhere , but only a few spots of rain , it wo n't be long before the sun comes out yet again . |
| 18 | According to the Theory of Relativity , time passes more slowly for objects moving very swiftly ; thus a spacecraft moving at close to the speed of light would take more than 100,000 years to cross our Galaxy , as observed by the rest of us , but only a few years so far as its crew were concerned . |
| 19 | After Mary 's accession in 1553 , considerable numbers of images , vestments , chalices , and crucifixes did indeed reappear in parish churches throughout the country , but only a few years later many of them were to fall foul of renewed attacks on images at the beginning of Elizabeth 's reign . |
| 20 | Most secondary schools have now reached double figures in their stocks of micros — but only a few years ago the authors of a book ( Howe and Ross , 1981 ) could gently suggest that ‘ we can readily envisage the time when every educational institution in the country will have access to at least one microcomputer ’ . |
| 21 | But only a few centres ever opened their doors . |
| 22 | Some of the army was camped outside the walls , but only a few sentries were stirring . |
| 23 | But only a few miles farther on , the convoy was halted again . |
| 24 | Most people who abuse alcohol will develop hepatic steatosis but only a few alcoholics develop more serious forms of liver disease — hepatitis , fibrosis , and cirrhosis . |
| 25 | But only a few schools completely integrated the teaching of domestic subjects and science . |
| 26 | Moorcroft and Coleman were appointed joint professors after an interregnum of seven months , but only a few weeks later , on 4 April , Moorcroft resigned . |
| 27 | The grateful customer sent Tina a box of chocolates but only a few days earlier she had vowed not to eat any chocolates because of Lent . |
| 28 | Sukarno made it clear where his Nasakom doctrine was leading ( 17 August 1964 ) : ‘ I am a friend of the nationalists , but only the revolutionary nationalists ! |
| 29 | Alternatively , they may have experienced some risk , but only the lower levels which characterize the flat lower part of the relationship shown in Figure 3.3 . |
| 30 | University-trained lawyers dominated the civil service but only the highest posts gave social prestige . |