Example sentences of "but [adv] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We also showed that grade two do significantly better than grade three , but most importantly perhaps is that we showed that patients with a vascular count that are less than twenty one do significantly better than patients with a vascular count of greater or equal to twenty one . |
| 2 | This facility requires a certain amount of sensitivity on your part but most certainly also needs to be developed through practice and attentiveness to details in the historical text . |
| 3 | It is usual to grow on the cuttings for a year so that the stock stems become somewhat thicker than a pencil but rather less so than your little finger . |
| 4 | It begins strong , and louder than a sick person could make ; the second cry is lower , but not less doleful but rather more so ; the third yet lower , and soft , like the groan of a sick man almost spent and dying . |
| 5 | If this new period brought with it a phase of Spenglerian pessimism after the long years of Victorian optimism , Toynbee did not himself assume that the West was in decline as such , but rather that paradoxically the globalization of Western civilization was being accompanied by a self-consciousness of its own cultural relativization , a process to which Toynbee 's own equally totalizing and relativizing history was designed to contribute . |
| 6 | Crazy , impulsive , illogical it might have been , but somewhere deep inside there 'd been a feeling of inevitability about it … |
| 7 | As such the deviant was the point of entry into civilization for the unnatural , the aberrant , and the abhorrent , the wilderness of disorder which beleaguered all civilization ; a disorder in part , but rarely only ever , sexual . |
| 8 | Such is the experience of most of us when we go to bed late : we might sleep slightly later than usual but rarely long enough to compensate completely for the late night . |
| 9 | Adventure might seem exciting , but all too soon it could seem like a prison sentence , especially when it meant living aboard a ship with all manner of rogues and scoundrels . |
| 10 | The occasional freethinker touched upon Cash 's Law — John Augustine snow , Frederick Sewards Trueman and more recently Gladstone Cleophas Small — but all too soon the banality returned with the likes of Norman , Graham , Les , Chris and Derek . |
| 11 | But all too easily it may not . |
| 12 | Saw Mum at the w/e — OK in health , but all too easily confused , and constantly obsessed about particular issues — keys , etc . |
| 13 | We are quick enough to admonish and complain and rebuke , but all too seldom do we actually give praise when either an outstanding achievement has been made , or even more rarely , when an outstanding effort has been made but has not succeeded . |
| 14 | Regrettably , but all too familiarly these days , there is a penalty for non-compliance . |
| 15 | But all too often , they do n't have to use force to get into a house because a door or window has been left open . |
| 16 | If they survive long enough , they begin to recapture many of their wild characteristics , but all too often it is a question of ‘ put ’ and immediately ‘ take ’ . |
| 17 | This is fine if you actually enjoy such activities but all too often enthusiasm quickly wanes . |
| 18 | It 's a job which men take on when they are at the height of their powers but all too often they have been reduced to a sickly shadow of their former self . |
| 19 | We 've seen flashes of the old Liverpool but all too often they 've fallen below acceptable standards and that 's the problem — their consistency has gone and that was always their hallmark . |
| 20 | Interest was needed to obtain any office , but all too often it was also required to rise in rank thereafter , and something more than the ‘ ability and character ’ mentioned by Scott would be needed to take the junior clerk to the headship of a department . |
| 21 | ‘ But all too often the margins of our commons and greens are subject to encroachment . |
| 22 | Service was for life : this was reduced to twenty-five years at the end of the eighteenth century , but all too often the difference was purely nominal . |
| 23 | The reader may think that the result is already known , but all too often different populations behave in different ways so that although there may be an expected result to an investigation it will not be a foregone conclusion . |
| 24 | To the public it must seem incredible that this sort of thing can happen but all too often the loopholes in our laws are exploited by rogues like the crew of Sea Rover . |
| 25 | But all too often leaving no will could create yet another worry for your family at a time of bereavement and disruption at home . |
| 26 | In paragraph 2.2 he reminds everybody that in his first report ’ the state of policing in Derbyshire was described as mixed but all too often one of deterioration in infrastructure and morale . ' |
| 27 | It is common for such evidence to appear , but all too often only after a great deal of harm has been done . |
| 28 | Dorigo had a great game , I thought , but all too often seemed to have been left in sole command of the entire left side of the pitch — every time he went forward alone , large gaps appeared behind him , and the gaps were frequently filled by the ball and Sunderland players . |
| 29 | We often hear about the people who bring misery into our lives crooks , conmen , burglars etc. but all too often the people with real values who help to brighten up our day remain anonymous . |
| 30 | Naturally I approached Bates in the strictest confidence , but all too quickly I learned that he is just a gin-sodden loud-mouth . |