Example sentences of "but [adv] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had made it a habit never to leave medicines lying about since the time she found Emma sucking a Panadol , thinking it was a mint , but thankfully then having the sense to spit it out when she found it was n't . |
| 2 | If I were a member of a species , highly evolved and perfectly adapted to a life among craggy rocks , pecking out the odd lamb 's eye , devouring a few mice , picking through a nice gamey carcass occasionally , but mostly just hovering gracefully around on thermals below cliffs , I would take great exception to being described as ‘ just ’ a crow . |
| 3 | Of days one was proud to be associated with railways and too many ( still only a sprinkling but so devastatingly disrupting ) that one swore always to take the car next time . |
| 4 | Contact with the man Wagner now kindled an interest in Wagner the theorist and within a few weeks Nietzsche was writing again to Rohde to impress on his friend his high opinion of Wagner 's Opera and Drama , a treatise written nearly twenty years before , but apparently now providing Nietzsche 's first direct acquaintance with any of Wagner 's theoretical works . |
| 5 | Fearful , utterly unaware now of the two men near by , she let her eyes move slowly up the document , seeing other names but only vaguely noting that she was scanning a list of some sort . |
| 6 | To some extent , SCI has a rival in the Futurebus+ architecture , also an IEEE standard , born in the 1970s but only now gaining recognition : both are set to hit the market at the same time . |
| 7 | But normally chemically speaking , when a particular reaction takes ta , careful of those Emma ! |
| 8 | Main trends : Christian Religious Knowledge syllabuses are rapidly developing joint denominational approaches ( Lesotho and Uganda ) and more slowly , but nevertheless steadily beginning to widen syllabuses , based on Bible knowledge and catechism , towards greater discussion of local and contemporary moral issues ( Kenya and Zambia ) ; local beliefs and customs are no longer excluded or contrasted with Christian beliefs . |
| 9 | The first , in 1806 , was Charles James Fox ( third son of Henry , the first Lord Holland ) , and the second , George Canning , in 1827 , a great parliamentarian , whose statue can be seen in Parliament Square , well back from the statue of Winston Churchill , but nevertheless still facing the House of Commons . |
| 10 | Change is slow and unspectacular but nevertheless constantly occurring , allowing the organization to keep its balance where most of its contemporaries — Icebreakers , Gay News , GLF and many others — have slipped and lost their footing . |
| 11 | When you have made your selection from this menu , a second menu will appear on top of ( but not completely covering ) the first menu and you will be asked to select from this one . |
| 12 | The markings should be located as follows : a spot over each eye ; on cheeks ; as a strip around each side of muzzle , but not on the bridge of the nose ; on throat ; triangular mark on either side of prosternum ; on forelegs from carpus downwards to toes ; on front of rear legs from hock to toes , but not completely eliminating black from back of rear pasterns ; under tail ; black pencilling on toes . |
| 13 | But not even scrubbing would alter the fact that the scullery was dark and ill-equipped and one look at the ancient stove made her glad it was still high summer and heating was not necessary . |
| 14 | The day began cold and blustery , in contrast to almost two weeks of uninterrupted warm sunshine , but not even darkening skies could dampen the spirits of a crowd of over 700 Napier staff , students , guests and friends who had gathered at Napier 's Merchiston campus to witness a truly historic moment in Scotland 's history — the birth of a university . |
| 15 | The result — a strange ( but not particularly compelling ) mismatch between form and content — American finery meets northern realism . |
| 16 | He was a rather fey , quiet , intelligent , but not particularly giving of himself . |
| 17 | For example , faced with the ratio of a two to one majority decision in the Court of Appeal as against dicta of three judges in the House of Lords agreeing with the dissent in the Court of Appeal and casting doubt on the correctness of the majority opinion , but not expressly overruling it , it is clear that the Court of Appeal must follow the dicta of the House of Lords rather than the ratio of their earlier decision , so paradoxically preferring the persuasive to the binding authority . |
| 18 | All of this means that the case for actively encouraging co-operative R&D is strong but not exactly overpowering . |
| 19 | In Greater London ( where decline has recently reversed ) and in some of the older industrial areas , together with some remote rural areas in highland Scotland and Wales , long-standing out-migration created a population growing older but not yet suffering natural decrease ( type 5 ) . |
| 20 | Later , beginning in the United States , AZT was also used in people infected with HIV but not yet showing symptoms of overt disease , again on the basis that administration of the drug appeared to abate the decline of vulnerable T-cell counts . |
| 21 | The work was interesting but not so demanding that there was no time for anything else . |
| 22 | More than eighty per cent of those polled also endorsed the ‘ all-round abolition of national military and naval aircraft ’ , a formulation designed to evade pacifist opposition by implying , but not explicitly stating , support for an international airforce under League control . |
| 23 | She gazed around at the paintings which hung on the walls , looking but not really seeing . |
| 24 | ‘ Pathos means longing ; yes , longing and feeling that wonderful things are possible but not really happening ’ |
| 25 | Pathos means longing ; yes , longing and feeling that wonderful things are possible but not really happening . |
| 26 | In some of these cases the collaborative style was really withdrawal , and such was the tension and confusion generated by the participants claiming to be working together but not really doing so , that it would have been better to drop the pretence and designate the practice withdrawal . |
| 27 | It 's , it 's erm I think it 's quite interesting cos it 's a different style , in a sense it 's just setting out some goals that they want to achieve but not really giving any clear instruction of how you can achieve those goals . |
| 28 | There was an immediate inquiry at which evidence was given that Hunt had been running when the race was stopped , but not really racing . |
| 29 | In London historians and critics are solicited for opinions by the auction houses , sometimes but not always accepting a fee ; commissions for articles are independent decisions by editors . |
| 30 | The results of these processes will be a set of outcomes , hopefully but not always involving observed changes in the behaviours of the pupils . |