Example sentences of "but [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reluctantly they headed away into the darkness and made the rendezvous rather late , but luckily the patrol had waited for them . |
| 2 | But paradoxically the public right-to-know argument , which may be a pure power argument for involvement in decision making or an argument just to know what has been decided ( and why ) , may conflict fundamentally with the individual right to know argument which may say , ‘ I have a right to know information and decisions about me and to prevent anyone else from knowing ’ — the confidentiality argument ( or one of them ) . |
| 3 | It appears that these penalties have been based very much on the default surcharge , but thankfully the level of penalty does appear to be significantly lower , though the period of penalty is much longer . |
| 4 | But thankfully the interior was bare . |
| 5 | We waited anxiously as reports came in of 97-mph gales in the Pennines but thankfully the spire remained firm . |
| 6 | But unofficially the word ran that he had died of plain starvation . |
| 7 | But unofficially the suggestion was authoritatively pooh-poohed . |
| 8 | But predominantly the architecture is distinctively Lincolnshire with a preponderance of old brick farmhouses and barns , a few whitewashed cottages and many , many churches built of local greenstone . |
| 9 | But mostly the ethos of Eagle was too remote from my working-class existence . |
| 10 | But mostly the loneliness , I guess . ’ |
| 11 | In a few cases people are the target , usually the result of the horses not having being handled properly ; but mostly the aggression in horses is directed towards other horses . |
| 12 | There are a few songs but mostly the show follows the stand-up format . |
| 13 | ‘ With the passage of time , some things like shutters have disappeared , ’ he said , ‘ but mostly the house is just as it was when it was finished in 1906 . ’ |
| 14 | The reasons for this are many — the sheer size of the square , the three surrounding sides that are dominated by elegant palazzo walls that add a solidity that speaks of permanence , but mostly the Duomo , the cathedral , whose façade is among the most beautiful in the world ; in the sun , its marble is eye-achingly white . |
| 15 | coast of Benbecula and S. Uist ( Ritchie , 1966 , 1979 , 1985 ; Currie , 1979 ) also suggest that the frequency of westerly storms must have been less prior to 4000 B.P. As Currie ( 1979 p. 227 ) suggests , ‘ the stumps remaining are not likely to be an indication of forest , but rather the evidence of such sheltered locations where small woods survived the climatic conditions , often in areas which are now submerged by the sea ’ . |
| 16 | The term ‘ an efficient farm ’ has defied description from many authorities but from this survey it appeared that it was not a farm or a system or an enterprise that was efficient but rather the man who ran it . |
| 17 | However , the decline in regular formal inspection did not mean the abandoning of inspection but rather the development of a variety of types suited to particular purposes . |
| 18 | This is not the language meaning ( the words or syntax of the language ) but rather the message meaning or intended meaning of the speaker . |
| 19 | There are strong grounds for limiting the sample size of the investigation because it is not the number of countries per se which is usually important , but rather the range of variation which they provide ( Walker , 1967 ) . |
| 20 | The overview of agreements does not give a direct picture of this process , but rather the framework within which such influence may take place . |
| 21 | He can then argue that once one has advanced beyond the superstition that all desire is for oneself having pleasure , one has no reason of principle for denying the apparent fact that some desire is directed at occurrences not involving oneself at all , but rather the welfare of others . |
| 22 | The final example is perhaps an unexpected mathematical experience as there is no discussion of the tower itself but rather the child has been carried to the top of the high tower in his imagination and asked to look down at the people below . |
| 23 | Recall from Figures 15–6 and 15–8 that the efficient quantity of pollution is not zero but rather the level at which the social marginal cost of cutting back pollution equals its social marginal benefit . |
| 24 | The theme of an it-structure is not It but rather the element which occurs after the verb to be . |
| 25 | He never rehearsed the performance , but rather the technique of the music , leaving his emotional response to the inspiration of the concert and expecting a well-prepared orchestra to be entirely responsive to this . |
| 26 | Simon was not trying to buy the Holy Spirit but rather the ability to impart the Holy Spirit . |
| 27 | Not the lofty creation of some Turin styling studio , but rather the realisation of men with rather higher ideals . |
| 28 | It is not that these initiatives do not contain good educational practice which is being criticised here ( for they do ) , but rather the way in which they are seen by some as panaceas which can succeed without full professional involvement . |
| 29 | Very often it is not the toy by itself that will provide a mathematical experience but rather the way in which it is being used either on its own or in conjunction with other things . |
| 30 | Indeed , Derrida 's quarrel with classical structuralism does not concern its Saussurean inspiration , but rather the way in which it has unwittingly betrayed the very principle on which the Saussurean revolution was founded . |