Example sentences of "but [adv] [conj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Wall cavity insulation can also reduce heat loss and could be considered , but only after expert advice has first been taken from an independent builder or surveyor as to the suitability for the type of home occupied by your elderly parent .
2 But Mr Hutchinson said : ‘ I think we are through the cure and into a situation where it could be very good but only if confidence returns and uncertainty holds that . ’
3 The ready availability of a screening questionnaire that mothers at risk can complete under supervision in a few minutes is potentially useful , but only if health workers and others can rise to the needs of depressed mothers .
4 The social worker within a local authority is never professionally involved with a family simply because it is a family but only when family considerations impinge upon the welfare and interests of some member of a client group — usually a child but perhaps an elderly or disabled adult .
5 Men like him became lynchpins in Sussex rural society , serving not only as tenant farmers but also as parish churchwardens and constables , helping to maintain a semblance of order and to interpret the gentry 's will in their communities .
6 It is possible that the closure of the efficacy gap at four weeks was because of the reduction in dosage in the prednisolone group , but also because fluticasone propionate acted more slowly .
7 This is due in part to rising divorce rates , but also because remarriage rates among divorced women have fallen in recent years .
8 This was not merely through the intrinsic loss but also because family status and honour were intimately linked to possession of land .
9 But now that computer animation looks so real , some advertising agencies are insisting that the images they pay For must look as if they have come from a computer .
10 Nitro-chalk was at one time a by-product of the gas and other industries , but now that manufacturing methods have changed , it is not so plentiful or cheap .
11 But even though ear syringing is a common procedure , surprisingly little is known about it .
12 But even as house prices plummeted the Government hopelessly overestimated the number of homes in the high bands .
13 It is rotproof but then if hemp nets are properly dried after every occasion when they get damp or wet there will be no problem .
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