Example sentences of "but [adv] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These aspects of political choice are still important but less so now than in the past . |
| 2 | But perhaps so too does the silence of the past 4 days . |
| 3 | Men like Pericles controlled policy not through any power vested in them but only so long as they could persuade the people . |
| 4 | Learning is a ‘ free commodity ’ , but only so long as we are thinking of knowledge as a source of intrinsic , expressive rewards . |
| 5 | Conti 's opinion was that reconciliation could be achieved , but only so long as the Scriptures were understood to speak the language of common people . |
| 6 | Paschal 's grant of 1103 certainly extended the primacy to Anselm 's successors , but only so far as it had been ‘ enjoyed by Anselm 's predecessors ’ . |
| 7 | But only so far as this : that the Pioneers did not in fact succeed in creating the Manufacturing Society as a Co-operative . |
| 8 | Sometimes the Constitution limits the executive or subordinate local bodies ; sometimes it limits the legislature also , but only so far as amendment of the Constitution itself is concerned ; and sometimes it imposes restrictions upon the legislature which go far beyond this point and forbid it to make laws upon certain subjects or in a certain way or with certain effects . |
| 9 | Suppose it is clear that convention does not dictate an answer either way in McLoughlin : convention requires that precedents be followed , but only so far as a new case is like the precedents in relevant facts , and no past case has decided whether damages must be awarded for emotional injury away from the accident 's scene . |
| 10 | A big advantage of using a medium-speed film such as APE 100 is that it is fast enough for hand-held camera use but not so fast that on bright days creativity is limited by the necessary use of a small apertures or high shutter speed . |
| 11 | But not so fast . |
| 12 | The division is reflected rather straightforwardly in considered judgements about the acceptability of sentences containing anaphoric expressions , but not so straightforwardly in on-line processing . |
| 13 | A social work career was developed in connection with this work , but not so effectively as was the case in the children 's departments . |
| 14 | " He knew we were going , but not so soon . |
| 15 | In ‘ The Last Chronicle of Barset ’ , she appears again , as the novel is also centred around Barchester in Barsetshire , but not so prominently . |
| 16 | In fact , closed crowns had been employed in the fifteenth century , as early as the coronation of Henry IV , but not so regularly that the historian can assume that there was any conscious policy behind the practice . |
| 17 | Jerome had done foully , but not so foully as he himself and all here believed . |
| 18 | It was also shown that the pedagogical perspectives held by mainstream mathematical educators , broadly ‘ psychometric ’ , were such as to legitimate the broad outlines of a curriculum differentiated by ‘ ability ’ ( but not so clearly its differentiation by sex ) . |
| 19 | oh well I , I think it did , it did emerge but not so clearly , but it did emerge in Mr evidence |
| 20 | Some people do well in these but not so well in the squad ( and vice versa ) , presumably because of the different pressures each brings to bear . |
| 21 | Benjamin Franklin s contribution to the identification of electricity in the form of lightning is well known , but not so well appreciated are the subtlety and simplicity of his apparatus and experiments . |
| 22 | This worked well for those in the A stream but not so well for those in the B stream , and badly for those in the C stream , who got discouraged . |
| 23 | The torrent here was almost as fearsome as it had been at the original crossing point , but not so deep . |
| 24 | Druggets are made in India and the Balkan countries , usually from a combination of goat hair , cotton and jute , and are equally cheap and cheerful , but not so frequently found . |
| 25 | Decretal letters , in answer to queries about particular legal points , came to be the major source of declaration during the twelfth century , more numerous than the decrees of councils but not so easily disseminated for use . |
| 26 | ‘ Those notices , ’ announced Gus clearly to the general air , but not so loudly as to reach unauthorised ears , ‘ mean exactly what they say . |
| 27 | But not so terribly easy when a folder of crime-fighting guidance is left propped against every front door . |
| 28 | It came on fitfully , but not so violently , several times on Thursday , and began severer threats towards night ; but I took between sixty and seventy drops of laudanum , and sopped the Cerberus , just as his mouth began to open . |
| 29 | Everyone knew that Duke William still had his hands full with Anjou and Aquitaine , but a victory was a victory , and the Normans drank deeply that Christmas , but not so deeply , as Osbern cheerfully assured his employer , that they would not be able to defend Scotia against anyone who tried to interfere with it . |
| 30 | This was long enough to become an expert by American standards , but not so long the life force would be sucked out of me . ’ |