Example sentences of "but [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | My landlord and his servant were in no hurry to help , and could not have climbed the cellar steps more slowly , but luckily a woman , who I supposed was the housekeeper , rushed into the room to calm the dogs . |
2 | Reluctantly they headed away into the darkness and made the rendezvous rather late , but luckily the patrol had waited for them . |
3 | 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 ) . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | But thankfully the interior was bare . |
6 | We waited anxiously as reports came in of 97-mph gales in the Pennines but thankfully the spire remained firm . |
7 | But unofficially the word ran that he had died of plain starvation . |
8 | But unofficially the suggestion was authoritatively pooh-poohed . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | It was part confession , part explanation , but mostly a plea . |
11 | But mostly the ethos of Eagle was too remote from my working-class existence . |
12 | But mostly the loneliness , I guess . ’ |
13 | 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 . |
14 | There are a few songs but mostly the show follows the stand-up format . |
15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
16 | 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 . |
17 | It was not a matter of ‘ if only … ’ , but rather a nostalgia for a different , a parallel plane of existence , a nostalgia for a future she could never have lived . |
18 | There is , for most of the century , no simple suggestion of a dominant class resisting a popular culture and attempting to supplant it with a preferred alternative , but rather a willingness not only to tolerate it but to accept a functional involvement . |
19 | These hints had their final expression in an astonishing personal letter written by Knox to Mary on 26 October 1559 , claiming that ‘ if it be the office of a very friend to give true and faithful counsel to them whom he sees run to destruction for lack of the same , I could not be proven enemy to your Grace but rather a friend unfeigned ’ — even if moderation was never Knox 's strong suit and so , unable to keep up the quiet tone of the letter , he felt impelled to throw in a postscript : ‘ God move your heart yet in time to consider that ye fight not against man , but against the eternal God , and against his Son Jesus Christ , the only Prince of the kings of the earth . ’ |
20 | Second , it is not absolute simplicity that is helpful in the input , but rather a tuning of the degree of complexity to the child 's stage of development and to the on-going demands of the conversation . |
21 | The late Bob Hedges , of the Royal Postgraduate Medical School at Hammersmith , a pioneer of plasmid research , suggested almost 20 years ago that bacterial evolution has not been linear , as in higher organisms , but rather a patchwork , with organisms drawing from a communal gene pool . |
22 | When attention moves from behaviour at the individual to the organisational level , it is argued that since organisations are not unitary actors , but are made up of individuals and groups with competing interests and objectives , companies can not be understood as pursuing a single goal , but rather a range of conflicting goals . |
23 | For example , given the heterogeneous nature of cereal production in the UK , a uniform response is not expected but rather a range of opinion amongst producers , largely dependent on the degree to which producers are committed to intensive cereal production . |
24 | On the face of it , however , this does not seem to favour an anti-correctionalist position , but rather a redirection of its focus from lower-to upper-class crime . |
25 | The major management concern according to Peters is not a concern with techniques but rather a concern with people , and with the division between management and non-management . |
26 | An investment franchise , as the name suggests , does not offer daily earnings , but rather a return on a profitable investment . |
27 | Here , focusing primarily on changes in art and architecture in Paris , Vienna , and Berlin during this period , I shall try to show that there is no single ‘ modern ’ but rather a plurality of modernisms each with its own specific national characteristics and significance . |
28 | The defendants argued , inter alia , that there was no reliance on the seller 's skill and judgment but rather a reliance by the buyer on his own understanding of the manufacturer 's instructions . |
29 | A similar conception of the role of sociology ( though with a more ‘ radical ’ political orientation ) is held by certain contemporary sociologists who want sociology to be not simply a discipline which analyses and explains social life but rather a vehicle for changing society , a discipline committed to the extensive alteration of existing social structural arrangements . |
30 | Since then there has been less of a general shortage of labour , but rather a shortfall in skilled , rather than unskilled labour . |