Example sentences of "but [adv] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those relationships are governed by general legal principles and by statute but most importantly by self-regulation which in any well run solicitors ' practice will be embodied in a properly drafted and partnership agreement kept up to date by regular review . |
| 2 | Italy got the south Tyrol and Istria — although not the town of Fiume ( modern Rijeka ) — but little else of consequence . |
| 3 | One of his regrets is that in four series against West Indies his record is very ordinary — one innings in which he took eight wickets , but little else of note — and he is aware that not having proved himself against the best team in the world will be held against him when reputations come to be assessed . |
| 4 | Hill 's ( 1970 ) classic American study of transfers between three generations shows that people do distinguish clearly between gifts and loans in principle , but less clearly in practice . |
| 5 | Rate exemption was the most important , particularly for pre-designation companies and new start-ups , but less so for branch plants where the benefits might accrue to head offices . |
| 6 | If you have a Caribbean or African background you may be susceptible to high blood pressure and to diabetes , but less so to heart disease . |
| 7 | Since July 1400 he had been archdeacon of Dorset , absentee but perhaps not without interest . |
| 8 | The different approaches are thus seen to be distinct , but perhaps not in conflict ; each approach is seen as an area of specialism , rather than as an area of commitment . |
| 9 | I feel sure they must be rolling in the upper layer of water where there could be more dissolved oxygen than in the lower layer , but so far below surface there is no visible evidence . |
| 10 | Er , and in general we have a , er , panel of the non-executive directors who set the directors ' salary in relation to the other directors I am also on that panel er , but obviously not in relation to my own salary . |
| 11 | He said little , concentrating on his meal , but obviously deep in thought . |
| 12 | One of them , drawn from metropolitan Dublin , laced the scandal with a smile and simply blamed the Svengalian influence of Dr Kavanagh ; the other , more parochial , gives the impression of a little country funeral spinning quietly but inexorably out of control . |
| 13 | However , it is possible to construct hedges ( completely in theory but only partially in practice ) against most exchange risks by using the futures markets . |
| 14 | Those who bet nearest to the stand will also be moved but only slightly in comparison . |
| 15 | Miss Golightly said she has left the car in the back lane behind her house but only late at night when it could not have caused an obstruction . |
| 16 | The intention was that the mechanical properties would be thereby improved ; they were , but generally only in proportion to the increase in density , at the same time much of the toughness of wood was lost . |
| 17 | I mean even doing two , you 're not gon na use a hundred grammes for two , but not just for face and hair and that here |
| 18 | Thus the redistribution in favour of the lowest 20 per cent shown in Table 3.24 is mainly but not exclusively for retirement pensioners . |
| 19 | It could be called ‘ spinning a yarn ’ but the blarney for once is true because seven Mums-to-be are away on maternity leave and more Mums are confirmed but not yet on leave . |
| 20 | Emma acquires the greyhound while she and Charles are still living at Tostes : the time of early , inchoate stirrings of dissatisfaction within her ; the time of boredom and discontent , but not yet of corruption . |
| 21 | Plasma fibrinogen concentrations are related to weight at 1 year but not independently to birth weight . |
| 22 | Plasma fibrinogen concentrations , for example , are related to weight at 1 year but not independently to birth weight . |
| 23 | Blood pressure is related to birth weight but not independently to weight at 1 year . |
| 24 | Drawings and sketches may be produced ( a picture paints a thousand words ) with a pen , but not easily by voice . |
| 25 | In the rent review context this has been said to mean that the court will tell surveyors what to value , but not how to value it : Compton Group Ltd v Estates Gazette Ltd ( 1977 ) 244 EG 799 . |
| 26 | Some of the audience had stopped laughing , too but not out of pity for Lucie . |
| 27 | His own car was a few yards ahead , and he could be in and started before they turned the corner — but not out of sight . |
| 28 | Then they walked down there , but not out of sight of the cars . |
| 29 | When the absurdly naive theatricals by which the clerks seek to cloak their scheme for preventing the miller 's stealing — which has increased from the " curteis " to the " outrageous " with the illness of their college 's manciple — reveal their design to him , he determines to steal yet more , out of pride , and out of his own version of measure for measure , but not out of covetousness : As soon as the two clerks can stop and consider the trick that has been played on them , we see that the miller 's action , motivated by his pride , hits directly at the pride of the clerks : Another offence to John 's pride leads him later to attempt to bed the miller 's wife , hearing the success of Alayn with the daughter ( 4199 – 209 ) . |
| 30 | She is better but not out of danger . |