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

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1 Rather , not only does Sweden have the widest coverage of collective bargaining for manual and white-collar employees , along with well-developed workplace organisations , but most importantly member firms of the centralised employers ' body support trade union membership and encourage employees to join and remain in the union .
2 May I finally express a wish that readers of this book will enjoy the text , perhaps learn , but most importantly debate and discuss it .
3 But right now rugby is very important to me . ’
4 Leeds battled well in midfield , but so often passing moves broke down with errors , doubtless as much through frustration as anything else .
5 The whole escarpment is several kilometres long , but so far development seems to be confined to a group of crags at its right-hand side .
6 The map , drawn up by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee , highlights waters off up to 10 per cent of the British coast that could be designated as special areas for conservation under the directive , but so far discussion of the sites has been confined to marine scientists within the British statutory nature conservation bodies .
7 This is obviously an important issue for psycholinguistic models of sentence and discourse comprehension , but so far evidence has been very difficult to obtain .
8 But so far Sergeant Juron had done nothing except walk the Emperor along , swaying , in their wake .
9 But once again nastiness did n't pay .
10 But once again ingenuity came to the rescue .
11 In the crowds were to be found most kinds of urban and industrial workers but hardly ever farm labourers ; in many cases they were shielded from the market by receiving part of their wages in kind , and in general the authority structure of the countryside was sufficient to deter them from rioting .
12 It was a culmination of measures going back to the middle of the nineteenth century , but more particularly government experience since the 1890s. and above all , a shift in attitudes towards State-provided housing .
13 There she would stand conveying the burden of being a creature and the sorrow to which humanity ( but more so caninity ) is heir to .
14 Plastic bowls of water are occasionally used in the sink , but more often water activities are set up elsewhere as extensions of the Home Corner play .
15 The less settled subject may alternate for a while between Stage I sleep and wakefulness , but usually once sleep takes over there is a fairly rapid transition from this stage to deeper sleep stages .
16 The book is also an attempt to link together and blend theory , policy and practice in the belief that well-informed policy and practice are likely not only to be more sensitive to the realities of clients ' lives and needs , but also more cost effective in the long term .
17 But somehow the BNF pull in the parliamentary crowds , as they did last autumn , when it organised a heavyweight panel including Con Allday , managing director of British Nuclear fuels Limited , Ned Franklin , director of the National Nuclear Corporation , Sir Walter Marshall , chairman of the CEGB , and Lewis Roberts , not only director of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell , but now also chairman of the recently formed Nuclear Industry Radioactive Waste Executive directorate .
18 In the households of the small master clothiers of the West Riding woollen manufacture , though not in its differently organised worsted branch , the wives , daughters and female servants may well have spun wool for the household 's own cloth — " Prithie , who mun sit at bobbin weel ? " asks the wife in a poem of 1730 when set another task by her husband — but even so yarn had still to be taken in from other spinners .
19 The method of distribution by overhead lines on wooden poles ( rather than underground cables ) was cheaper per mile , and usually tolerated in the countryside ( especially when the Boards pointed out that it was a pre-condition of receiving the benefit of electricity supplies ) , but even so distribution to scattered rural premises was more expensive per consumer than in compact urban areas .
20 At least they chose the lesser of two evils , but even so Tank managed to create havoc .
21 For the first half of the fifteenth century , Gascony was under less pressure , probably because Henry V 's campaigns had shifted the bulk of military activity to northern France , but even so war had a serious effect on wine exports .
22 But even so unemployment problems remained , with the total out of work numbering 1.4 million ( just over 9 per cent ) in the third quarter of 1937 .
23 But even then patience and accuracy is required .
24 But even there patriotism was hardly enough .
25 ( The exception was , of course , in the occupied areas of the north-east ; but even there life on the whole was considerably more bearable than it was in Occupied France under the Nazis . )
26 In Europe the veterinary schools , which were state-funded , had four or even six professional men as teachers , but even there criticism was not lacking .
27 Accreditation is then perceived as a safety net , but here again consultant appointment depends less on accreditation than on possession of the required skills and training .
28 — We thought laundry lists and brown paper parcels had long gone , but here again business is booming .
29 Over there we do work over there , we do work here but er , we always work in a relaxing way over there but here always tension .
30 But almost immediately violence broke out again .
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