Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] but at " in BNC.
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| 1 | These types of system require a greater investment both in cost and technical expertise but at the same time allow a modular approach to construction and greater flexibility in operation when dealing with new diagnostic situations . |
| 2 | For example The promise given by Dewey not to alter the subject numbers obviously has clear advantages but at the same time has built-in disadvantages . |
| 3 | This opened up a four-shot lead but at the 5th Greg hit a bad second shot and chipped up , missed the putt and dropped back to three ahead . |
| 4 | If the Government adhere to their position , the decision on the bids would be taken not after due consideration and detailed examination but at the outset by telling one bid that it had not been selected to receive the £48,750 assistance . |
| 5 | For instance , a local planning authority may decide that an office of a special character might be allowed in a residential area but at the same time may not wish the premises to be available for any type of office use . |
| 6 | … if environmental problems are pursued rigorously enough and with sufficient attention to likely contributions from other disciplines they may foster constructive alterations in public policy but at the same time may stimulate new research and refinement of research methodology to the benefit of geographic discipline . |
| 7 | The most common disguise is that of the jongleur or menestrel ( within the fabliau tales there is barely any discernible difference in status or respectability between these two although conventionally it is supposed that the former is lower than the latter ) : a disreputable itinerant entertainer living , creditably , off his wits and his talents , but only too vulnerable , and given to wasting what he gains on the temporary pleasures of drinking and gambling in the taverns ; a social outcast but at the same time one called upon by the members of normal society , as Jouglet is , both to instruct the ignorant young man and to play for the villagers . |
| 8 | Perhaps not in the political lifetime of most hon. Members but at some future stage , we may see a Community that stretches from one end of Europe to the other , for which I for one will wish to work . |
| 9 | Ah well tha no Meadow Road 's got the old gates but at Natherton there were some that did n't have any barriers at all , they were just flashing lights . |
| 10 | Home and Away ( 12.32 million ) and Neighbours ( 13.69 million ) are simply a different culture but at least there 's plenty of sunshine . |
| 11 | Burton 's amours were widely touted ‘ with this guy you bring your own mattress ’ , a well-used crack but at Burton , well aimed . |
| 12 | As one delegate to the discussion put it ‘ The women still do n't understand what the real world is like when it comes to their commercial value but at least they 've realised for the time being that they have bitten off more than they can chew . ’ |
| 13 | I may have had a foolish mother but at least she was there . |
| 14 | NOAA images are used in weather forecasting which requires frequent global coverage but at lower resolution . |
| 15 | No I am grateful to Mr because he 's finally crystallised in my mind something that 's been bugging me the longer I stay on this council about exactly what the Tories see their role here as and it 's now very clear to me , more than ever and that is that if you want to be obstructive and negative and if you go on long enough being obstructive and negative what you can end up doing is that you 'll find yourself eventually in a position going on long enough that you can make totally meaningless speeches but at least you 'll get nice headlines in the paper and that seems to me the whole essence of the Tory strategy . |
| 16 | This is a welcome and long overdue development but at the time of writing the detailed regulations bringing it into force have yet to be published . |
| 17 | Well it 's a both a fortunate and unfortunate circumstance as a result of the by-out a sorry as a result of the floatation we cut a great many costs which reduced our taxable profits but at the same time we did actually pay some divides and we 've also pay some dividends here in last year anyway . |
| 18 | Sometimes priorities can be expressed in absolute terms but at other times absolutes are impossible . |
| 19 | TERRY VENABLES has had an uncomfortable week but at least it ended happily . |
| 20 | In the context of the discussion , however , this disagreement is not treated as face-threatening : it is not directed at Brenda 's personal position but at a proposition ( that the existence of " halfcastes " has confused racial boundaries ) which she has articulated and which is now " up for grabs " . |
| 21 | ‘ It is not the least good pretending any longer that the film is a thing one does not go to , ’ admitted Macpherson , the editor of a journal which in 1928 recommended fourteen Russian and European films but at least in a second category included two films by Cecil B. de Mille . |
| 22 | This epistemological criticism is not directed at her political intervention but at her recourse to structuralist account and emphasis on the capacities of capital rather than of class . |
| 23 | Speech thus requires very fine sequential organisation not only at a psychological level but at a physiological level also . |
| 24 | The formal discipline can sometimes tidy up muddled thinking but at other times it can interfere with the creatively developing interaction between trainer and trainee . |
| 25 | I said and that 's why cos Paul said to me , he said , I never hear you moan , I said look you wo n't hear me moan because it 's not that I enjoy the job I hate the job I said I hate the work , and I find it hard work but at the end of the day on a Friday , I know that six o'clock in the morning on a Friday I can go up to the Nationwide Anglia , slip my card in there and I know there 's gon na be a couple of hundred of quid in there with the |
| 26 | They are doing a fine job but at least two of the five journalists on the panel have never been to Down Royal in their whole careers ! |
| 27 | There were comparable problems in establishing a form of rule that would satisfy the aspirations of republican majorities but at the same time protect the legitimate interests of local minorities . |
| 28 | The same is true of the meanings of lexical units : each one consists of an indefinite number of contextual relations but at the same time constitutes a unified whole . |
| 29 | But there have been no credible claims of responsibility , and the use of Pentrite suggests to secret service investigators that it may not have been aimed at French national interests but at someone on the aircraft . |
| 30 | Put another way , thoughtful Conservatives recognise that electoral reform would probably secure the right of middle ground in the face of socialist challenge but at the cost of blocking the returning prospect of the chance to implement the hard-right vision . |