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 .
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