Example sentences of "but [adv] [art] " 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 | The first two men to exit from the following party were killed when their parachutes failed to open , but luckily the RAF dispatcher managed to stop the rest from jumping . |
| 3 | Reluctantly they headed away into the darkness and made the rendezvous rather late , but luckily the patrol had waited for them . |
| 4 | They trooped off into the night , short of food and water , but incredibly a freak rainstorm burst , turning the desert into a lake . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | We waited anxiously as reports came in of 97-mph gales in the Pennines but thankfully the spire remained firm . |
| 7 | This style of painting was obviously very popular but thankfully the English developed landscape painting away from the picturesque reaching their apogee with Turner and Constable . |
| 8 | But thankfully the interior was bare . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But thankfully the two exters never got to me . |
| 11 | ‘ But thankfully the days of the rack and burning at the stake are gone , even in Ireland . ’ |
| 12 | But unofficially the word ran that he had died of plain starvation . |
| 13 | But unofficially the suggestion was authoritatively pooh-poohed . |
| 14 | But fundamentally the instrumental approach fails to reconcile and explain contradictory tendencies . |
| 15 | Maybe their system 's organized differently , but fundamentally the problems are the same and that 's given our people the confidence that they needed because they 've been able to see that people everywhere , it 's not just them isolated in , in , you know , Tory Britain , who are facing these particular difficulties , but issues of privatization for example as the same in France and actually about to get much worse , er but , and , and I think that helped erm our colleagues from France who 've also got a perspective on their struggles and their battles we 've been able to support one another with information about companies working , multi-national companies working on both sides of the Channel . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Sometimes there were cries of pain , shouts of ‘ I ca n't breathe ’ , but mostly a loud and continuous din of sobbing from at least half the people in the room . |
| 18 | It was part confession , part explanation , but mostly a plea . |
| 19 | The Führer was no longer present among his people ; he played the part increasingly of a deus ex machina , turning up every now and then in Berlin or Munich , but mostly a distant war-lord conducting military affairs in faraway parts but scarcely having any real further contact with the German people themselves . |
| 20 | Cottage dwellers were either authentic or immigrant — but mostly the latter . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It was an appalling time of tyranny and religious persecution in which all classes of Scottish society , but mostly the ministers and farmers , and mainly in Ayrshire and Galloway , took the lead in resisting the final efforts of the Monarchy to install Episcopacy , many paying with their lives for adherence to their faith . |
| 24 | Occasionally , the film hits the right note , but mostly the disenchanted teenagers seem merely petulant , while the parents and shrinks are portrayed as either feckless drunks or mercenary medics . |
| 25 | But mostly the ethos of Eagle was too remote from my working-class existence . |
| 26 | Some of the houses stood out by dint of their brightly painted front doors but mostly the only sign of decoration was the washing on the lines and hanging from windows . |
| 27 | But mostly the loneliness , I guess . ’ |
| 28 | One of the tabloids got a couple of columns out of it — Teen Lovers ' Nude Death Ride on Dizzy 's Yacht but mostly the papers left it alone . |
| 29 | There are a few songs but mostly the show follows the stand-up format . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . ’ |