Example sentences of "[adv] but a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gets a bit of sea-gusting somewhat but a lot of good land on Holland . |
| 2 | ‘ I liked Selina very much but a lot of people in Rothesay did n't . |
| 3 | Not much but a bit . |
| 4 | The sun was a copper-coloured ball balanced briefly on the tops of trees , there was no relief from the heat when it went down but a little from the persistent ravages of the insects whose uproar , briefly louder and more piercing , diminished as the light faded . |
| 5 | B but until we moved from there to street and we still only had one bedroom and one down but a little tiny back kitchen . |
| 6 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 7 | Community and confrontation do n't go together , which is fair enough but a bit cosy . |
| 8 | Ash is produced when the coal is burnt and has proved to be something for the salvation for many plants and animals the ash is so fine that it has to be turned into a slurry and put into the to settle out these can be up to eight years during which time it becomes none the less but an artificial mud flat quickly colonized by weeds , pioneers crucial to the complex way of life in our natural world But for bird-watchers it is the bird that attracted to these artificial mud flats that are the most exciting development within the boundaries of these power station nature reserves . |
| 9 | Only but a whole ham if you are really going to use it . |
| 10 | Thomson floats it in straight into the hands of Tommy Wright who hits it first time quite sensibly but a bit too strongly straight back to his opposite number . |
| 11 | There is no difference overall between adenoidectomy only and ventilation tubes alone but a significant benefit of adenoidectomy and tube insertion in combination above any other treatment . |
| 12 | Another possibility — unlikely perhaps but a possibility nonetheless — is that the terrain nearby may have been treated with rat poison , and an unmuzzled ferret can be fatally poisoned by eating a recently-poisoned rat . |
| 13 | Who are these sad inadequates anyway but a consequence of looking at society through middle-class-tinted spectacles ? |
| 14 | The club had assumed the money was not a loan anyway but a contribution . |
| 15 | Most of my revision in my first and second years was done the night before and I managed to get through but a lot of friends who did the same did n't . |
| 16 | Derry manager Eamon Coleman will announce his team after training tonight but a big question mark still hovers over the fitness of Enda Gormley . |
| 17 | Perhaps it 's the pipistrelle bats and that 's why , if I looked , I would n't see anything outside but a disturbance of shadow . |
| 18 | Given that conditions had changed greatly in forty years , and that ‘ the right to know ’ had in every walk of life assumed paramount importance , it seemed nevertheless unrealistic — even allowing for the vastly different scale of the conflict — for relatives of servicemen to protest at lack of information over but a few days or even hours . |
| 19 | And when they sited their power stations , they decided erm , again for good economic reasons , to site them er along the channel coast and actually down the , down the Rhine most of the power stations are , are er th they have power stations elsewhere but a lot of the power stations are in these areas here and the reason for that was , by putting it near to their borders , they were able to export electricity to their neighbours . |
| 20 | He judged the size of the crowd at about 35,000 — small by standards elsewhere but an improvement over attendance figures for the past two years . |
| 21 | I do n't know whether it 's actually correct or not but a number of players in Byrne 's team ( Shamrock Rovers , a team I dislike nearly as much as the scum ) have been linked with moves to Elland Road . |
| 22 | The night was still but a mist was descending slowly ; he stood looking towards platforms 2 and I when he suddenly heard footsteps on the ballast approaching him . |
| 23 | Such however is the mighty Providence that guides us , we were adverted in due time withal and haply able to forestall the deadly peril to our settlement , that is still but a mewling infant scarce able to totter on bandy legs . |
| 24 | ‘ Good God , there was a time I saw him — still but a child , to be sure — playing his fingers in her hair with such warmth and love in his face , such concentrated attention , as if it so fascinated him he could not leave it alone . |
| 25 | It was always but a matter of illustration , and any branch of production could have served that purpose equally well … |
| 26 | we always we always go to Spalding well not always but a lot of the time we go to Spalding and I always have what is called the raw vegetable dip it 's all vegetables , you name it , the vegetables are on there you know carrots erm |
| 27 | It became more than a family home but a working farm and , they hoped , an inspirational headquarters for their international design empire . |
| 28 | We went astray once but a man on a mule appeared and redirected us , and a solitary house provided welcome tea . |
| 29 | Analysis of psychological processes is not a second rate substitute for studying the brain directly but a necessary adjunct to guiding our explorations of that organ . |
| 30 | Lexandro grinned wildly , for within but a few more weeks he was to have holes drilled through his carapace so that he could jack in to power armour . |