Example sentences of "but [adv] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As mentioned previously , this so often happened with monotonous and maddening frequency during operations , but luckily radio contact was regained in the nick of time and the message was passed that Margate seemed the most likely landing spot . |
| 2 | It is not a natural similarity but rather sex stereotyping that prompts the comparison between men and fierce animals or women and helpless children . |
| 3 | I know but all West Country . |
| 4 | ‘ But perhaps airway right . ’ |
| 5 | The preoccupations of spoken language interpreters in discussing their task do not then concern language competence but only interpreter competence ( Gerver and Sinaiko , 1978 ) . |
| 6 | They lined up like some firing-squad as Messrs Shepherd and Palmer did their best to explain the situation , but only television slo-mo replays would have convinced the sternest of the doubters . |
| 7 | The pulsation period will be of order I " , but clearly parameter dependent . |
| 8 | These short studies are in part historical , but partly art criticism ; the study of Leinberger is particularly relevant , as it comments both on an encounter with a sculpture and the problems of reading about it . |
| 9 | SCO says SCO Unix and UnixWare are not direct competitors , but both Com Tech and MUA plan to take UnixWare to their current SCO users and show them what it can do — and how it can run SCO applications . |
| 10 | The iconography may be updated — with Punch , Harlequin , Perrault 's Cinderella , archetypal figures of immemorial imaginings replaced by newer , movie-bred cast of characters , Roger Rabbit , Indiana Jones , Disney 's Cinderella — but both theme park and funfair are designed to satisfy the childhood fantasy of a toy as big as the object of which it 's supposed to be the scale model . |
| 11 | α-granule nucleoids have been demonstrated by electronmicroscopic studies in the canalicular system ( White , 1974 ) , and it is likely that normal secretion involves not only fusion of these granules with the canalicular system but also platelet contraction . |
| 12 | According to an engineer involved in the project , the resulting rotting vegetation will " not only generate methane , but also hydrogen sulphide , ammonia and carbon dioxide " . |
| 13 | Not only the statesmen of the age but also public opinion , partly sheltered from the realities of war by the employment of mainly professional armies , were untouched by the enthusiasm for peace which usually prompted such schemes and indifferent to the dreams which they embodied . |
| 14 | Gandhi 's quest for Truth or God involves not only bhakti yoga , that is the discipline of prayer and devotion , but also karma yoga , that is , the discipline of action . |
| 15 | My personal thoughts are of a collection of official Junkers models I once saw in Frankfurt , these included an F.13 and most unusual , a Ju52/3m floatplane all sectioned-off to show not only technical , but also cabin accommodation details . |
| 16 | But also tomato fertiliser apparently is useful for I do n't know . |
| 17 | ( There are also pricing incentives to encourage you to buy all your software from one vendor : from Lotus , for example , you can buy not only spreadsheets but also word processing , electronic mail and graphics , in fact what Mr Ingram calls a complete office system . ) |
| 18 | Management motivation , but also management efficiency in target-setting , planning and control should improve ; |
| 19 | These conditions can include not only economic factors but also government encouragement and the willingness ( or otherwise ) of employers to recognise and negotiate with them . |
| 20 | The surface microenvironment could not only influence initial immobilisation and orientation , but also antibody conformation and effectiveness . |
| 21 | They have orders — although perhaps not as many as they had — but also cash flow problems , because the companies they supply do not pay their bills on time . |
| 22 | Nyerere , if he manages the full handover of not only governmental power but also party power , may achieve the distinction of dealing with two of the problems . |
| 23 | Provincial 's board now receives a monthly 20-page package incorporating the key financials , economic indicators and a branch activity report but also market intelligence from each of the 20 branch managers , ‘ saying what the local market is doing and suggesting any good business to be done . |
| 24 | Early on , he asked John Wakeham , his one-time boss as chief whip , but now energy secretary , to attend meetings of the review committee , acting as an independent source of party-wise political advice and , later , as a fixer . |
| 25 | You would have been forgiven for a knowing smile then , but now acid rain is no laughing matter . |
| 26 | I think they call it fire safety now , in my time it was fire prevention but now fire safety which is probably a better word for it . |
| 27 | But today Education Secretary John Patten launched a viscious attack on the students ' union . |
| 28 | There are other outlets , if you want to learn the media game , in terms of speech and view , as it were , hospital radio , I do n't know whether you have any hospitals in your region but increasingly hospital radio offers an opportunity and a challenge , and welcomes people who would like to try their hand at becoming sort of D.J.s , or features editors , or are prepared to talk interestingly about subjects , and this you would only know from a local point of view . |
| 29 | But surely state intervention should have been the best way of achieving both goals ? |
| 30 | But even majority rule is seriously qualified in the liberal-democracy … |