Example sentences of "but [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I think the the key point about patriotism is one reason why perhaps people in , in Britain and so on should n't be patriotic too , but if you see the rather cynical attitude of the Western countries towards recent events , not just in Russia but right across the Eastern block , very good example was condemned , erm but when , following the massacres erm , the West has gone on to sort of do deals with the winners and cultivate links er with the people responsible for that massacre , the killing of the Soviet Union went the other way and consequently erm that 's where you know Western resources are directed . |
| 32 | But right for the wrong reasons . |
| 33 | Not on the outside of our lives , but right in the very centre of our being , the very heart , the core of our personality , this new life , this new birth to the only way that we can know God and receive his forgiveness . |
| 34 | In general , it reaches a maximum thickness of 40–50 m near the basin margin but locally in the southern North Sea it attains a thickness of up to 90 m , and basinwards it decreases in thickness to less than 5 m ( Fig. 4c ) . |
| 35 | As for the second , ‘ Blondel ’ is decidedly not an Italian name ; moreover , castratos sang in the royal chapel , but rarely on the French stage . |
| 36 | The notion of a country united under Alfred 's West Saxon successors gained ground but slowly in the tenth century . |
| 37 | There is an increasing body of knowledge about the first group but little about the other two . |
| 38 | But all over the pastoral Midlands and the south of England too , the canals flowed clear and sparkling in the sunshine , something new in the landscape with their towpaths , lock-keepers ’ cottages , stables for canal horses , their Navigation or Canal Inns where they met a main road , and their long and narrow gaily painted boats . |
| 39 | They had worked widely within the English system , but less within the Scottish one , with its lay Children 's Panels , and less emphasis on the courts . |
| 40 | But regardless of the precise predictive value of this threshold , our findings show clearly that patients destined to suffer recurrence presented a persistent upward shift in the proliferative pattern which could be detected before the relapse occurred . |
| 41 | He may even have competed and undergone intensive schooling , but perhaps of the wrong sort . |
| 42 | But perhaps for the particular plot you have arrived at , the particular murder you have in mind , a good deal will have to be told to the reader about pre-murder events . |
| 43 | It is tempting to wonder what Smart 's genius could have been had he not been tormented by madness ; but perhaps without the enhanced perception that came with illness , he would not have written at all . |
| 44 | Her looks and her vibrant personality had always won the day for her — but perhaps in the long run that had n't been a good thing , because now those weapons had failed her she was floundering , rudderless . |
| 45 | But together with the other matters , it raises the possibility that she may never have known Daniel at all . ’ |
| 46 | ‘ Dry-cow therapy , however , should not be used in isolation but together with the other well-known mastitis-control measures , and do n't forget to talk with your vet first about the antibiotic treatments available . |
| 47 | Tells you nothing about Ancient Egypt but much about the nineteenth century . |
| 48 | Within that report he tells us erm , the rather startling disturbance story , that in fact it almost suggests , has been suggested the revolution has n't happened because the situation has continued as before with a different name but basically with the same er with the same kind of programme intact . |
| 49 | The balance within the militarized police forces tilted the other way : of some 68,000 Civil Guards and Assault Guards , 60 per cent remained loyal : surprisingly in view of the former 's reputation as the hammer of the rural poor , but crucially for the early failure of the rising in many places . |
| 50 | But so about the same time as the mill was heightened , I think that th land was drained . |
| 51 | She waddled cautiously across the living-room , glaring imperiously but ineffectively at the slopping water glasses . |
| 52 | The opposite view , with the fine back , is good too , but in between the extended limbs telescope awkwardly though the full-face is splendid . |
| 53 | But along with the miniature conifers come miniature hitch-hikers . |
| 54 | I am not referring to the wonders of the universe , or to the workings of the human brain , but merely to the genetical and biological formation of us humans . |
| 55 | Since the second world war , but especially since the 1960s , the role of ‘ national economies ’ has been undermined or even brought into question by the major transformations in the international division of labour , whose basic units are transnational or multinational enterprises of all sizes , and by the corresponding development of international centres and networks of economic transactions which are , for practical purposes , outside the control of state governments . |
| 56 | Unfortunately a great deal of early archival material has been lost , particularly in the upheaval caused by the wartime evacuation of the College from Camden Town to Berkshire in 1940 , but especially during the complete rebuilding of the College in Camden Town in the 1930s . |
| 57 | I am prepared to argue that doing business involves , even at the lower levels in an organization but especially at the higher levels of management , semantic problem-solving ; for example , agreeing on boundaries , identifying individuals , establishing and maintaining classifications , conjecturing ways of doing things that belong in no existing formal schema . |
| 58 | Daniel , Sutton Copper Works , St. Helens ; Messr 's Sneyd & Co. , Whiston Copper Works ; but especially to The British & Foreign Copper Co. , Liverpool . |
| 59 | I would like to thank you all for your presence — in both senses of the word , but especially for the smiling faces I see in front of me . |
| 60 | Clearly there appears to have been a significant increase in activity across all age groups , but especially among the older age groups . |