Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [adv] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well they th th the kids were there but |
| 2 | On May 31 President Ramiz Alia appealed in the People 's Assembly for patience : the strikers ' demands were just but they could not be met immediately , he said . |
| 3 | It was not only that the players were away but that while they were away they were losing badly . |
| 4 | The roads were all but deserted south of London . |
| 5 | Cursory reading of the financial pages over the past few months would have left the average reader with the impression that while the US and UK economies were laboriously but undeniable clambering out of the recessionary trough , Japan was flat on its back and looking like getting worse before it got better , and that high interest rates in Germany were plunging that economy into a recessionary black hole and dragging most of the rest of the continent with it — now comes a report from International Data Corp saying its Global IT Survey of 5,000 computer executives , 500 chief executives and finance chiefs , and 1,100 local network managers in six biggest economies indicates that growth in computer spending will rise 2% to 3% in 1993 and , surprise , surprise — the US and the UK should outperform the rest of Europe and Japan . |
| 6 | The shutters were all but useless . |
| 7 | Like magic , laughter and dancing broke out everywhere and the 60 treacherous kilometres were all but forgotten . |