Example sentences of "but [adv] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anxiety is not a single entity but rather comprises three facets : first , the way we feel , meaning our physical sensations , including both acute and chronic symptoms ; second , the way we think , including catastrophic , irrational and negative thoughts ; third , the way we behave , including patterns of avoidance and stressful lifestyles . |
| 2 | Sparc wannabe , California start-up Integrix Inc , has a graphics accelerator board , the SGX 120 , which it says is identical in resolution to Sun Microsystems Inc 's 1280 x 1024 resolution GX+ board , but only requires one Sbus slot : it 's priced at $2,750 with availability later this month . |
| 3 | Jessica poured herself a gin , but only had two sips . |
| 4 | A back-up power system at the coach station did operate but only lasted three hours . |
| 5 | Knit together the first two stitches but only knit three stitches before you do the next knit two together . |
| 6 | Additionally , workstations that meet the criteria , but only run one vendor 's software and are sold exclusively as turnkey systems for one or more applications — such as the Computervision CADDstation — are not included . |
| 7 | I tore a little but only needed three stitches , and they were no problem at all . |
| 8 | Moss was in his early forties , but already looked ten years older than that . |
| 9 | But just remember one thing — next time you 're exhausted , do n't expect me to put you to bed again . ’ |
| 10 | The opening of the novel is then the story of his ‘ death ’ : the time between ‘ dying ’ and coming back to full consciousness , a period of uncertain length , but possibly covering two years or more . |
| 11 | Smith was a regular in the England Under-19 side last year but still played 15 games for Leicestershire and was out in single figures only once in 23 innings . |
| 12 | Methil was only developing between 1875 and 1900 but still shipped 400,000 tons in 1888 and was up to 1.7m by 1900 . |
| 13 | Whole week of holiday now gone , but still working 23 hours out of 24 minding potties , cooking food , searching for lost particle of Lego , shopping for sweets and icecreams and exploding drinks , explaining in most genteel terms available why horse in nearby field has permanent erection . |
| 14 | In the light of the methodological weaknesses and the fact that euthanasia without explicit requests was not permitted ( but still yielded 1000 cases per year ) we are not convinced that LAWER has not increased in frequency . |
| 15 | ‘ That 's friendly ! ’ he shouted over the engine noise , and he pointed through the windscreen at the concrete airstrip which not only had the yellow cross painted huge at its western end , but also had two trucks parked in its centre line , thus making it impossible for any plane to land . |
| 16 | The land held in reserve in Richmondshire 's case is not just land held in reserve for existing firms to expand on , but also includes three sites which are identified in this document as being reserved for development after two thousand and one , between two thousand and one and two thousand and six . |
| 17 | On many islands , though , the lists of species are enhanced by mobile visitors , which can also live elsewhere ; the Galapagos Islands , for example , in the Eastern Pacific , have one kind of penguin that lives nowhere else , but also have three kinds of boobie bird , plus frigate and tropic birds and brown pelicans , which live throughout the warm oceans . |
| 18 | They secured eight but also lost three wickets including two run outs , one of them off the last ball . |
| 19 | Questions asked of — refers to occasions when a teacher directed a question at a specific boy or girl usually by name but often taking one volunteer from many hands up . |
| 20 | It was originally issued with a three-month maturity but now has two months left . |
| 21 | Samuel Pepys , the noted diarist who died in 1703 , dated his journals on the basis of the Annunciation , but invariably noted 1 January as ‘ New Year ’ . |
| 22 | Thus , ( 43 ) has the same ambiguity as ( 39 ) between predicate qualifier , giving the " cosmetic " version , and this new pattern of interpretation , which must correspond to the " unacquainted " meaning , and the distinction between the two senses of sentences like ( 39 ) should not be written off as a mere matter of " nuances of meaning " , but instead shows one sequence of surface syntax answering to two different intensional patterns . |
| 23 | but barely done three times as much . |
| 24 | As Mr Hart himself asked in a letter to The Times : ‘ In the face of so pellucid a Parliamentary intention , how was it that the Revenue not only thought it worth while to try it on , but actually found two courts to agree with it ? ’ |