Example sentences of "[adj] but [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A subject who not only finds science exciting but also believes it can be applied to help people and produce wealth and employment could hardly be bettered in answer to the white coated caricature with which Ian Fells began . |
| 2 | Surely they will provide the final lesson that rock 'n' roll needs more thinking , more philosophising in a real sense before we can ever allow another four-square Smiths to appear , vastly entertaining but also clutching their own downfall . |
| 3 | He devised a set of heavy draft horse casting hobbles which are now outmoded but still bear his name . |
| 4 | The young boy was extremely embarrassed but soon swallowed his pride and climbed back into his canoe while we all fell about with laughter around him and it was then that I heard the bang . |
| 5 | They were both very demanding but always rejected something in such a way that it did n't upset you . |
| 6 | Her mother is fairly fit but still finding it difficult to come to terms with her husband 's death . |
| 7 | Motability has arranged special schemes with motor manufacturers , wheelchair manufacturers , insurance brokers , and other so that today a variety of schemes can be offered which not only help disabled people become mobile but also give them a chance to be truly independent . |
| 8 | We have never paddled at night and are a little apprehensive but soon learn what we have been missing . |
| 9 | In interview , she at first denied being dishonest but later admitted it . |
| 10 | She not only got pregnant but also found it impossible to further her career in the Tory party . |
| 11 | Which not only guarantees you the widest choice possible but also allows you complex control over the design of your beautiful new custom-built bedroom . |
| 12 | Raducanu attended the official dinner that followed the international but then left his team-mates . |
| 13 | Well the figures show that assessments of the over provision are incorrect but even had they been correct if circumstances were an over provision comes about not because of an increase in our provision of services , but because of expansion in the private sector . |
| 14 | The judge reckoned it was a bit savage but nevertheless awarded it second prize . |
| 15 | Many natural oils contain valuable ingredients that not only keep us healthy but also improve our skin . |
| 16 | Ian Halcrow 's Macbeth looks great but never draws us close , and he and others swallow or truncate their lines as though they cared very little for them . |
| 17 | What the Russians thought of their rough but kindly guide it is impossible to say ; but he grinned , and exclaimed in amazement as he tried in vain , with a stumpy pencil to get a list of their names , and then sympathetically remarked , as he looked at their wan faces , ‘ There is no wonder at the chaps being ill ; even their names is all coughs and sneezes ’ . |
| 18 | His first feeling as he emerged from the short but deep sleep which came to him at the end of every restless night , was that he was bloody glad to be alive . |
| 19 | Often , he would say thank you , and take it , or look puzzled but always take it . |
| 20 | Add red lentils and cook for a further 10 minutes until they are tender but still retain their shape . |
| 21 | Not then — to recall my point of departure in the previous chapter — knowing thyself , so much as knowing thy discursive formations — knowing them in the process of living but also inverting them ; reinscribing oneself within , succumbing to , and demystifying them . |
| 22 | What 's probably happening is that you are trying to tell them you are annoyed but also saying you still want them to like you at the same time . |
| 23 | If Philip Leapor had earlier been hostile to his daughter 's poetry fearing it was unprofitable but then left her at liberty , it was probably because she had convinced him that she could earn money with her pen . |
| 24 | For the rest of us crying is a hit or miss experience , sometimes satisfying but sometimes leaving us drained , exhausted or more hopeless than when we started . |
| 25 | He wants them small and blonde but also to know their mullet from a mallet . |
| 26 | Communism not only declares that God is dead but savagely tears him to pieces . |
| 27 | The unkind things your husband says to you not only make you feel bad but also make him feel better . |
| 28 | Hemingway takes us through a hurricane which is predicted , which comes very near but finally misses his home . |