Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | It made his work pattern not merely different from but the opposite to that of Asquith . |
| 2 | Thus culture at some level of awareness asserts itself to be not only distinct from but superior to nature , and that sense of distinctiveness and superiority rests precisely on the ability to transform — to ‘ socialize' ’ and ‘ ‘ culturalize' ’ — nature' , i.e. to be active and in control . |
| 3 | It was an amazing spectacle , a country not just unworried by but positively enjoying inflation . |
| 4 | Indeed , just prior to but , there is what has been described as a ‘ possible completion point ’ . |
| 5 | Er , back to the profit and analysis er remind you so far there 's three which er you 're all very I 'm sure already familiar with but we have to explain to some of our less sophisticated audiences . |
| 6 | because my dad was more friendly with but I mean I do n't know , but I ca n't bear people like that I wish they 'd just , you know |
| 7 | People who you think It 's all melting , there 'll be more wet about but there could well be more deserts and So there 's quite a lot going on there . |
| 8 | Well t , in general , I mean there are some types of support , er more susceptible to but in general . |
| 9 | I 'm also looking forward to seeing a copy of the election manifesto on which he fights those elections and er er how it will be possible for the Conservative party to er put forward a manifesto that he is comfortable with and also a manifest that the honourable member for say Old Bexley and Sidcup is similarly comfortable with but er no doubt that 's a matter for the Conservative party . |
| 10 | You know it was I I was n't really pleased about but it was a good evening . |
| 11 | In fact , you know , he gave the drivers and conductors a lot more than what they were really entitled to but conduct |
| 12 | Erm the sums behind it I 'm not too bothered about but I 'm gon na go through them because they 're quite instructive and I dare say there 's some poor souls here who 'd actually quite enjoy me to do that so we 're gon na go through some of the sums , not now but a bit later on . |
| 13 | I 'd just like to raise a point that erm most men are psychiat , er mo most of the psychiatrists are men and that a lot of the diagnosis I feel , come from a very sort of patriarchal view erm , you know a lot of have sort of brought up the alternative sort of er medicine and er self-help groups , and to me , having been through psychiatry which is a , a huge machine that is very difficult to get out that er to me , that 's the only future and there 's millions of pounds going into psychiatry and we 're reviewing it now with community care plans which , I I do n't think anybody is actually clear about but er , you know , the the millions that are put into psychiatry , I 'd like to see more sort of counselling er , become available or , more money given to sort of er mental health associations . |
| 14 | I 'm very sorry that as soon as I have finished this welcome this morning that I have got to leave you , and I am very sorry that I shall not be able to return this evening for your dinner which I would originally look forward very much to but I trust that you will enjoy the company of the Chairman of our Environmental Services Committee , Councillor Robin Draga , who is attending on my behalf . |
| 15 | No , not precisely I , I was a bit too young then , I , I remember all the songs about her Amy wonderful Amy and all those and oh and when she married Jim I was very much in but I could n't actually say I remembered her crashing at Walsall The erm you could , yeah , when I came home from work one Monday afternoon my nan said this eighty eight had gone over very low , and we , we heard that they 'd dropped this landmine this same aircraft had dropped this landmine that had gone under the gas holder at the gas works , in Road and the , they had some rescue workers from the A R P to get it out they never even bothered calling for the Royal Engineers , but the situation was that landmines used to come down on parachutes , and they used to slide into places which were inaccessible but anyway , they relied on the local Walsall A R P to get them out . |
| 16 | Er I felt another thing which I , I was n't too happy about but then again one can soon change these things . |
| 17 | I did expect you to drop everything for me and when you did n't I did n't run after you , not because I was too proud to but because I was afraid , just as you were afraid . |