Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] [adv] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | We want to safeguard the special beauty of our countryside and make sure that it is not only pleasant to walk in but that it is safe too . |
| 2 | You will tell me that the milkman has refused to continue deliveries , but this only adds weight to my earlier submission that the boat is not only unfit to live in but actually unsafe . " |
| 3 | I giggle a little as I fetch the little dark blue jacket I bought at the same time : it was rather extravagant to buy both but they seemed to belong together . |
| 4 | Social class inequalities are always difficult to explain precisely but there is no doubt that they exist in relation to the AL of maintaining a safe environment ( Whitehead , 1987 ) . |
| 5 | Soldiers , after all , were ‘ bad ’ at making wills , but obtained concessions on political grounds ; their civilian compatriots were surely just as likely to slip up but could expect no such special treatment : a trust clause could make all the difference to the success of their dying wishes . |
| 6 | He 's perfectly entitled to come here but not to run off with anything he fancies and sell it . |
| 7 | In fact , Easy Rider was rather slow to catch on but when it finally caught the attention of the counter-culture , even the establishment newspapers and magazines began to offer up praise . |
| 8 | Since Sun/Star readers as a whole were relatively uncommitted they were relatively easy to influence anyway but , in addition , the tabloids were particularly good at influencing their readers ' voting preferences . |
| 9 | So in the two things that can happen in conversation to give it To make it stop running smoothly are overlapping and interruption and like some of them are quite difficult to tell apart but usually it 's If you 're transcribing stuff it 's fairly obvious . |
| 10 | It 's very easy to get about but there 's no sense of being in a city |
| 11 | Well it 's pretty difficult actually to put a cupboard up a wall , I admit they 're very easy to make up but to actually hold this cupboard . |
| 12 | From what I 've seen of Bardsley , he reminds me a bit of Sterland — he looks very good going forward but he seemed to leave gaping holes at the back when he played for England ( ca n't remember who it was against ) . |
| 13 | We can negotiate access to our land and we will be only too pleased to do so but whilst you are killing the fox er and at the end of the day , it is not on . |
| 14 | She declared the Gainford property to be very nice to live in but ‘ of no serious interest ’ because it was made up from bits and pieces of different vintage . |