Example sentences of "but [prep] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Lyrical Essays , I found someone who , like me , was happiest writing about sunlight and blue skies — but for exactly the opposite reasons . |
| 2 | In the end he was correct about epigenesis , but for quite the wrong reasons . |
| 3 | Her voice was perfect , she estimated — appealing , weak , but with just the right amount of braveness to it . |
| 4 | Now y'know you can come up with a description of that as an ellipse but in exactly the same shape , in a slightly different context , yeah , you know it 's actually circular and it 's a hoop and your perception of the object is different . |
| 5 | The early choices will be painful , of course , but in much the same way that ‘ pins and needles ’ are painful when your leg has gone to sleep . |
| 6 | It was a perfectly good declaration , but before long the older spectators were recalling Headingley 1948 , when Yardley set Australia over 400 to win and Morris and Bradman saw them home . |
| 7 | Computer printers everywhere are turning out miles of paper , but until recently the right quality of environment-friendly could n't be made . |
| 8 | The Italian national debt is the third largest in the world , but until recently the short maturity and floating rate nature of its debt has prevented the provision of a suitable futures contract . |
| 9 | But until now the Spanish title has always eluded them , more because the Opel range did not have an outright winning car than any shortcoming on Meeke 's part . |
| 10 | It 's thought that badgers can pass tuberculosis to cattle , but until now the only known test for TB involved killing the badger first . |
| 11 | Finally , from within psychoanalytical criticism but from outside the Anglo-American paradigm , Gertrud Koch has drawn attention to a different theorisation of the gaze , one that does not link it to voyeuristic ( peeping through the keyhole ) pleasure but rather to the earlier , pre-symbolic stage in which the small child gazes openly at the world and at its mother : ‘ We may in fact owe the invention of the camera not to the keyhole but to the baby-carriage ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ Not short back and sides , but to just the right height so you can see the rest of the garden . ’ |
| 13 | Inside , everything The bar was like a cruise ship passing through the tropics — but without quite the same sexual charge . |
| 14 | In the Sixties , car ownership did rocket , but since then the social graph has levelled off . |
| 15 | Within a few years of this last attempt by an emperor to rally the Roman empire to paganism , a Greek bishop could speak of Julian 's pagan revival as a misguided attempt to introduce ‘ novelties ’ in place of the traditional religion ; but at much the same time in the West , Christians were still regarded as outside the mainstream of respectable upper-class culture , as the foolish minority who rejected the wise and hallowed traditions of their forefathers which had made Rome great . |
| 16 | The Hurricanes dived on them , but at once the escorting fighters were on their tails ; at least two ‘ convoys ’ were noted of Ju87 , Hurricane , Bf109E in line astern , all firing . |
| 17 | But that , that 's just one little part of it but and because there 's been a lot of quite worldwide travel of young people , not perhaps on a massive scale , but at least the young people of each country are more thinking more of them |
| 18 | But at least the young have education on their side . |
| 19 | ( 2 ) Provide the Chairman with a note for each item of business , giving him the previous history of the discussion and indicating not the decision but at least the possible decisions that might emerge from the current meeting . |
| 20 | It may be that it is those least disposed to commit suicide who join the cult in the first place , but at least the systematic comparison of variables has led to the question being raised . |
| 21 | But at least the new developments should ease the diplomatic impasse that has kept relations between Japan and the Soviet Union frozen for 46 years . |
| 22 | But at least the new examination seems to offer greater scope for teachers to develop programmes of work in which the internal and external assessments can be seen by the pupils to be interrelated in a more purposeful way . |
| 23 | the same can not be said today but at least the other conditions still apply . |
| 24 | Their regimes may have been impoverished by the emphasis on security and restrictions on movement within the prison , but at least the physical settings avoided the squalor and overcrowding which worsened in the local prisons . |
| 25 | Like SuperCalc these are n't pictorial in content , but at least the shadowed button look makes them appear as if you should click then with a mouse — which is more than can be said for either of the other two packages . |
| 26 | But at least the enforced postponement saved the Germans from setting off yet another attack at half-cock . |
| 27 | But at least the white lie had got her out of her moment of confusion . |
| 28 | Three points became one , but at least the faithful have something to cheer about and the revival might just be under way . |
| 29 | Of course , Atari has not cut the price of its ST micro for two years , but at least the raw 520ST-FM has a powerful 16/32-bit Motorola 68000 processor , 512K of memory , upgraded 720K disc drive and a mouse . |
| 30 | But by now the rising waters had isolated them on the islands of Borneo , Sumatra and Java . |