Example sentences of "but [adv] [prep] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In February or March , when spring was waiting to burst out but the trees were still leafless and the earth grey and cold , Sophia used sometimes to pretend that she was in Italy — not necessarily in a beautiful or famous part but perhaps in some obscure little town in the Alban Hills or a dusty coastal village between Naples and Sorrento . |
| 2 | On closer examination , however , most of this turns out to be the product , not of reasoned consideration and reflection , but merely of some political manoeuvre or party attitude . |
| 3 | Next Jay told them he 'd step aside but only for some ridiculous sum of money . ’ |
| 4 | Gazzer felt the roll of notes being removed from his jeans , but only as some distant background sensation . |
| 5 | But already in some nineteenth-century cases , and commonly in the twentieth century , a group has formed around some much more general programme , including many or indeed all arts , and often additionally , in relation to this , some very general cultural ( and often ‘ political ’ ) position . |
| 6 | There is no general nature in common to those things , and any idea we have is never general or abstract , but always of some particular thing . |
| 7 | These cases are not only common , though hardly ever in the much over-simplified form we have considered , but also of some theoretical interest . |
| 8 | In the past , ‘ yardstick-plus ’ costs have been permitted , mainly in expensive urban locations but also in some rural locations in recognition of their higher building costs . |
| 9 | It is possible , however , that Berkeley 's evident sensitivity to charges of scepticism is rooted not simply in his cherished hope that they are false , but also in some dim feeling that they are not completely unjust . |
| 10 | Concern has been growing for some time now , voiced not only by the media but also by some high-powered academics , ex-civil servants and former senior government statisticians , that official information which should be wholly objective is being distorted , suppressed or otherwise interfered with to serve the political ends of the government . |