Example sentences of "but [adv] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The assistant commissioner reported troubles with the farmers , but much more with the labourers . |
| 2 | Butler 's examination of this policy from 1952 to the 1970s shows that the differences between the average list size of the four different areas have declined , but only slightly over the years and with a number of upward and downward fluctuations . |
| 3 | But only down to the tiles so mine 'd only be half way . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , it 's meretricious , I grant yer , ’ conceded the Old Stager , ‘ but not reelly like the others what 's got 300 in Test matches . ’ |
| 5 | But not so for the Magyars who had been so praised in 1848 , ‘ an obscure semibarbarous people … still standing in the half-civilization of the sixteenth century ’ . |
| 6 | In the coming election campaign Darlington will be kept well informed of Peter Bergg 's viewpoint by our leafleters and canvassers , but not perhaps by the pages of The Northern Coun John Cresswell , Liberal Democrat , 87 Westmoreland Street , Darlington . |
| 7 | Erm , I think at the back of some people 's minds there was this pressure , you know that 's why a few did return to work and I mean I can understand some of them returning to work but not necessarily for the reasons they 've stated . |
| 8 | However , if there is no free charge in the space between the conductors , and strictly for two-dimensional problems , there is a method to which the adjective " general " might be attached , a method that provides plenty of answers but not necessarily to the questions asked . |
| 9 | At home , on both wings of her Cabinet , are ministers who regard green politics as no more than the latest fad ; the election will not be won by fighting on the beaches , in the air , and in the green belts , but once again in the pockets of the people , is their view . |
| 10 | The trick is to make the qualification time long enough so that the people who go to a club towards the end of their career and get large transfer bonuses do not qualify , but short enough for the players to feel that they will not have to wait half their lives to get theirs . |
| 11 | The pattern of AIDS research is also likely to be profoundly shaped by the events of the past few weeks , but more importantly by the articles by Fauci and Haase and their colleagues than by the preliminary report of the Anglo-French study . |
| 12 | It is the base for a large measure of individual and social mobilization to activate , extend or defend those rights , not simply in the political sphere but more generally in the areas of cultural , economic and social life . |
| 13 | A British viceroy of India spoke of them as ‘ those countries which must inevitably have attracted the attention of Europe , partly from increasing infirmity , but still more from the opportunities suggested by their latent though neglected sources of strength ’ . |
| 14 | Thirdly , and following on , the debate helped to formulate a new image of young workers and to project it , not only well beyond the immediate confines of the reformers and their circles , but also well beyond the realms of education into the public domain . |
| 15 | He must know not only about the risks he wishes to avoid , or to take , and the price at which he is prepared to transact , but also more about the characteristics of the underlying instrument such as its volatility and the degree to which its price is correlated with the risky prospect against which he seeks a hedge ( or upon which he plans to speculate ) . |
| 16 | In practical terms , this means that when a yellow-hot lava is first emitted , it can flow at a rate of many kilometres an hour , but lower down on the flanks of the volcano , when it is cooler , it slows to the speed of a run , and then of a fast walk . |
| 17 | But sometimes like in the Proms , I had to keep lowering the sound |
| 18 | The effect of the provisions is to deem the income to be that of the settlor , usually for all the purposes of income tax but sometimes only for the purposes of the higher rate of tax . |
| 19 | We have n't got enough Nice to get some work started on the eighth floor because of the different activities But then again with the activities that are carrying on on the seventh floor we ca n't By the time we get round to the ninth pretty desperate . |
| 20 | Not wicked but definitely off with the fairies earlier this week was ALEX , bass player and chief hair-shaker from NED 'S ATOMIC DUSTBIN . |
| 21 | His wife explained , but too quietly for the children to hear . |