Example sentences of "but [conj] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But where more intensive support is required , over a longer period , he or she needs to be able to put the patient into contact with a relevant mutual aid group , befriending scheme , counselling service , or psychiatric crisis support scheme . |
| 2 | Informal , even oral , arrangements may be acceptable where reconnaissance work is being undertaken , but where more costly exploration work is contemplated the company should seek a written agreement with the mineral owner . |
| 3 | Of course , the extension dx will be accompanied by lateral contractions dy and dz , but although normally negative and equal , they can usually be assumed to be zero . |
| 4 | Members of the public have to depend on the press for information on which to base their opinions ; but if allegedly indecent films are always shown in closed courtrooms the press can not give the public the information which it may want and which is necessary for the formation of public opinion … |
| 5 | This would , or course , only be justified for serious disease , but if more benign targetting techniques could be devised , it might be possible to use the liver as a target tissue for any interaction with serum metabolites , such as cholesterol . |
| 6 | Half Well let me let me finish the the quote because Well there are but but but but Well alright but but Peter Lilley is saying , is suggesting in a in a speech at a party conference that half the population of continental Europe are scroungers . |
| 7 | But while externally unchanged they have ceased to be our central ‘ collective representations ’ . |
| 8 | But after early electoral success that fledgling party was crushed by Mrs Gandhi , and Khan , like many others , survived politically by joining her Congress party . |
| 9 | Leavis , a radical socialist before 1950 , turned briefly liberal before adopting in his last years a bitterly conservative stance that favoured no party of state , hating economic growth and the European Community , so that long before his death in 1978 his idealism had been soured by the varied spectacle of human folly ; but though always outside religion , he was in no way hostile to it , and admired its moral seriousness . |
| 10 | This fascinating story is one of many such in Roger Lonsdale 's anthology of Eighteenth-Century Women Poets , not just a marvellous piece of scholarship but as richly entertaining and original a book as I have come across for some time . |
| 11 | Rainoldes seems to have imagined adult male sexuality not just as anarchic , but as satanically polymorphous , capable of engaging in the forbidden with alarming ease . |
| 12 | USAID officials said that further , but as yet unconcluded , agreements with three other countries eligible for debt relief — Côte d'Ivoire , Niger and Uganda — would extend the reduction package to US$745,000,000 ( out of total sub-Saharan African debts to the US government of US$6,600 million ) . |
| 13 | John Deverall ( 1979 ) , in a fascinating but as yet unpublished dissertation on the ‘ Public Medium/Private Process ’ dichotomy , draws our attention to authors such as Richard Sennett ( 1974 ) and Iris Murdoch ( 1970 ) , the former deploring the cult of the individual in modern society and the latter arguing fiercely for the arts as ‘ unselfing ’ . |
| 14 | A. ‘ That the Directors be and they are hereby generally and unconditionally authorised to exercise all the powers of the Company to allot relevant securities ( within the meaning of Section 20 of the Companies ( Amendment ) Act 1983 ) up to an amount equal to the authorised but as yet unissued share capital of the Company at the close of business on the date of the passing of this resolution . |
| 15 | Bacteria , protozoa and other micro-scavengers are likely to play important but as yet uninvestigated roles in the zooplankton . |
| 16 | They have therefore left us with an unusually rich source of material through which to examine several questions about psychosis and creativity already raised , but as yet unanswered , in this and the previous chapter . |
| 17 | Standing on that base , felt as solid but as yet unexamined , he can look ahead of him at the task , which is writing , in possession of the means to carry out that task , which is his language , but suddenly that vision is revealed as fantasy . |
| 18 | And more especially if you regard yourself as an artist of great but as yet undiscovered potential but who is forced by impecunious circumstances to provide the musical entertainment at wedding receptions in The Bronx . |
| 19 | While most restaurants take commissions ranging from 15–30% , Rick Devlin and Dave Williams , who co-own the Cafe , are dedicating their wall space free of charge to help promote talented , but as yet undiscovered , young artists . |
| 20 | The evidence marshalled by Crow is strong , but as yet inconclusive . |
| 21 | The latest unit to go in IBM Corp 's cutting loose of its surplus manufacturing plants , which started with four factories in Europe last week , is IBM Canada Ltd 's Toronto manufacturing division , which is to become a separate , wholly owned subsidiary with a different , but as yet undetermined , name and logo : the Toronto division employs about 900 and has export revenues of some $800m annually ; all employees will be offered positions with the new company , which will continue to manufacture products for IBM — for the time being at least , and will also seek work outside the company . |
| 22 | A further , but as yet untested , area of controversy concerns the future use of water authority land resources in the event of privatisation . |
| 23 | The unseemly haste is dictated not merely by the Government 's electoral timetable , but by the fear that if the measure is given proper time for debate there will also be time for the real , but as yet nascent , concerns of Tory Back Benchers and their constituents to grow and mature . |
| 24 | In addition , it is possible that hypertension and obesity are linked by a common but as yet unknown factor . |
| 25 | The splendid and spirited pictures in the early printed herbals had been done this way , but as increasingly detailed and accurate illustrations were demanded , plates etched or engraved on copper became the norm . |
| 26 | Thus , to retain their value , they must be seen not as rigid dogma , but as sufficiently flexible to accommodate a changing social scene . |
| 27 | … there is some practical convergence between ( i ) the anthropological and sociological senses of culture as a distinct ‘ whole way of life ’ , within which , now , a distinctive ‘ signifying system ’ is seen not only as essential but as essentially involved in all forms of social activity , and ( ii ) the more specialized if also more common sense of culture as ‘ artistic and intellectual activities ’ , though these , because of the emphasis on a general signifying system , are now much more broadly defined , to include not only the traditional arts and forms of intellectual production but also all the ‘ signifying practices ’ — from language through the arts and philosophy to journalism , fashion and advertising — which now constitute this complex and necessarily extended field . |
| 28 | Thus there is some practical convergence between ( i ) the anthropological and sociological senses of culture as a distinct ‘ whole way of life ’ , within which , now , a distinctive ‘ signifying system ’ is seen not only as essential but as essentially involved in all forms of social activity , and ( ii ) the more specialized if also more common sense of culture as ‘ artistic and intellectual activities ’ , though these , because of the emphasis on a general signifying system , are now much more broadly defined , to include not only the traditional arts and forms of intellectual production but also all the ‘ signifying practices ’ — from language through the arts and philosophy to journalism , fashion and advertising — which now constitute this complex and necessarily extended field . |
| 29 | New Historicism offers a possible negotiation of the problem Samuel sees not only as pedagogically necessary but as politically necessary too . |
| 30 | In fact the extant Acts of the Martyrs ( where based on contemporary records and not legends ) do not portray the martyrs as human heroes , but as very frail mortals who are being given supernatural strength . |