Example sentences of "but [adv] [adv] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people like building them , some like driving them but most just like to pose , ’ says Gerry Hawkridge , who makes Cobra and Ferrari 275 GTB look-alikes . |
| 2 | The Gordon 's ‘ Green ’ campaign continues to be popular in the UK spirits market , using the famous green of the UK Gordon 's livery with a series of witty one liners ‘ Gordon Bennett ’ was a development of this theme in the important pre-Christmas period — the first multi-coloured version of the campaign This recent work gained the highest awareness of any UK spirits advertising in the past five years The ‘ Green ’ campaign continues to appeal to all age groups , but most significantly has continued to improve the brand 's attraction amongst young adults |
| 3 | One end of W is rapidly but delicately electrically vibrated allowing the writing head to make equally rapid , if intermittent , contact with the paper . |
| 4 | The occasional gay march has received mention , and the customs raid against Gays The Word bookshop drew brief comments , but little else has broken through . |
| 5 | Some six-row barleys have been cut on light land south of Worcester , but little else has come under the knife , according to John Sturt of Midland Shires Farmers . |
| 6 | Their resilience and in part fortuitous revival may have been due to the slightly more permissive policies of the Popular Front government in Paris — thousands of political prisoners were released although thousands more remained in gaol — but much more seems to have been the result of the ability to rebuild an organization from the bottom up even though the advice and instructions they received from international communism meant acquiescence in policies which did not give them pre-eminent appeal as a revolutionary party . |
| 7 | For 20 minutes the air will gradually charge , as Sidney 's fantastical imaginary seduction acts itself out through the medium of Byrd 's music , so neutral on the surface but so supremely calculated to carry such a sensual text . |
| 8 | But so much seemed to have changed … and Joe would make a much better ally than an enemy , if only he could accept the situation as it stood . |
| 9 | He had searched for this assassin by silent threat and bribery but so far had discovered nothing . |
| 10 | Many producers are eager to cobble together another market-sharing cartel , but so far have failed to recruit Brazil , the Saudi Arabia of the world coffee-market with a share just over 20% . |
| 11 | Q I have been trying to locate a manufacturer of a walking boot or walking shoe which is synthetic , ie not leather or suede for a vegetarian friend , but so far have had no luck . |
| 12 | In addition , the effects of overseas political and military expenditure were not exhausted by the more or less direct effects on the balance of payments but obviously also involved tying up substantial numbers of men in the armed forces and the supply industries . |
| 13 | ‘ I suggest that Hazelbank Park is not only unique but especially well placed to afford enormous benefits to Rathcoole estate , ’ he added . |
| 14 | It was an old thing he had had for years but only recently learnt to use , taught by one of the boatswains in Taheb 's fleet . |
| 15 | Main trends : Christian Religious Knowledge syllabuses are rapidly developing joint denominational approaches ( Lesotho and Uganda ) and more slowly , but nevertheless steadily beginning to widen syllabuses , based on Bible knowledge and catechism , towards greater discussion of local and contemporary moral issues ( Kenya and Zambia ) ; local beliefs and customs are no longer excluded or contrasted with Christian beliefs . |
| 16 | This sea change is neatly embodied in the name of one Biarritz hotel which I noticed , the Victoria-Surf , whose owners are evidently hedging their bets , looking to the democratic future but not yet prepared to give up the blue blooded past . |
| 17 | This has meant sponsors could pay to stage an event , say the Trebor Mints Pure Strength Challenge , but not directly pay to make the television programme . |
| 18 | Glenshee and Glencoe all had cover but not enough to justify running the lifts . |
| 19 | One way round this is to tie a tiny hook to the hair and to bend inwards slightly the hook point — enough to prevent fish from being hooked but not enough to make hooking bait too difficult . |
| 20 | Lewis has interpreted these as classical temples , but not enough has survived to prove this suggestion . |
| 21 | Another possibility is that we call statements expressing attitudes with this particular sort of stridency moral statements and allow as ethical all statements which express attitudes towards conduct of a certain special seriousness and pervasiveness in their influence on one 's own behaviour and such as one would like to find widely shared , but not necessarily to have supported by a social sanction . |
| 22 | The teenager , now 17-years-old , confided in a friend but shortly afterwards had to return to the kitchen to make a cup of coffee for another supervisor . |
| 23 | In an instant , she was beside him , standing close but still not venturing to touch him . |
| 24 | Cheery tombola social nights at local Labour Clubs were replaced by showings of Peter Watkins 's brilliant but heart-stopping antinuclear film , The War Game , which the BBC had commissioned in the 1960s but still wimpishly refused to screen . |
| 25 | But to imply , in however tentative a way , that there have not been some fundamental changes in the English experience of Ireland since Spenser 's day , helps on the one hand to re-energise the Renaissance texts by demonstrating their continuing cultural negotiations , but also curiously helps to valorise Spenser 's perspective . |
| 26 | As the images were changed so , too , were age relations , since the former not only are always expressions of the latter , but also clearly help to sustain them . |
| 27 | Thus President Woodrow Wilson not only insisted that the United States fight as an " associated " power — not an ally — but also later failed to persuade the US Senate to agree to his vision of a League of Nations . |
| 28 | … the flotsam and jetsam , the people … the kids who 're failing in the system ( and ) uh ( the ) kids who , who 're … probably successful in the system but really just need to talk to somebody occasionally , y' know uh . |
| 29 | He is politely but quite openly starting to mock her . |
| 30 | 2.25:FERDIE Murphy 's Campsea-Ash looked an improved performer when chasing home Katabatic at Ascot , but then palpably failed to reproduce that effort when a distant third to Freeline Finishing at Chepstow . |