Example sentences of "but [adv] [adj] [conj] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was pleased to see us , but rather angry because another of his shoes had disappeared . |
| 2 | Where grandparents were never directly known their occupations may be remembered , but rarely more than that . |
| 3 | All climbing up the stairs in one mad rush trying to get out of the hell-pit of the London Underground tunnels , after having escaped from the claustrophobic strangulating suffocating hold of the London Underground Tubes , marginally cleaner but less picturesque than those of New York . |
| 4 | For the higher rate taxpayer , the situation is more complex , but less serious than that facing the basic rate taxpayer . |
| 5 | The remarkable strength of this pulsar is reflected in the mean flux density at the three observing frequencies given in Table 1 , indicating a spectral index between 430 and 2,360 MHz of -1.5 , typical of most pulsars , but less steep than those of other millisecond pulsars . |
| 6 | Here a tasteful modern development looks out onto the statue of Christ ( similar to but much smaller than those in Rio de Janeiro and Lisbon ) , which was inaugurated in 1927 . |
| 7 | The magisterial pronouncement of Sir George Macdonald on the Antonine Wall has now been overthrown by the brilliant study of the samian by Brian Hartley ( 1972 ) , and the work at Carpow and other Severan sites will help to stabilize the dating of the pottery of this period , so with more revisions and adjustments , we may eventually have a framework which will endure , but only possible since all the groundwork had been so carefully prepared . |
| 8 | His contribution was professional , but not more than that , within the limited scope available . |
| 9 | Downes seemed slightly surprised — but hardly more than that : ‘ It 's about Theo , I suppose ? |
| 10 | Health and safety cour training courses according to these reports these are poorly attended with a majority below forty percent but more worrying than that is that nearly half of G M B safety reps said they 'd not received a copy of the safety rep 's kits . |
| 11 | there is as much stability in aesthetic judgements as in ethical or political or philosophical or scientific ; [ and ] the reputations of poets and artists are not less but more assured than those of biologists or statesmen or metaphysicians . |
| 12 | There are innumerable variations on the basic scheme , but more satisfying than any is Acropolis 679 ( fig. 39 ) . |
| 13 | But more significant than this was the general increase in sensibility . |
| 14 | But more fundamental than this is her view of the scientist 's and artist 's conception of knowledge . |
| 15 | But more disturbing that either of these has been an increase in the rate of inflation which has affected all countries and which continues to remain high in many . |
| 16 | But more important than that , the title also represented a triumph in the battle against time which he has been waging since he learned that he might soon be forced to quit the Tour . |
| 17 | But more important than this particular theory ( which he was later to modify substantially ) was Lombroso 's role as the founder of the positive school of criminology . |
| 18 | These are cheaper to consumers , but more costly than those from countries outside the union . |
| 19 | He was the son of a World War One Army aviator and according to his Squadron Commander Jim Parsons ‘ he was an exceptional young man , very likeable but more aggressive than most ’ . |
| 20 | The other patient had values ( 1.37–1.86% ) below the medians for the other five patients with active disease , but still higher than those in remission . |
| 21 | If you 've got big compost , then maybe the heat of the compost might kill them , but as much as that , it will probably just rejuvenate them . |
| 22 | In the 1950s only a quarter of the growth in sales of electricity to domestic consumers came from newly-connected homes and another quarter from the extended use of existing appliances , but as much as half came from newly-purchased appliances . |
| 23 | In Great Britain 50,000 people use sign language as their main language , but as many as half a million people may be hearing impaired . |
| 24 | But as far as that er I got the information for the athletes foot and then I checked with Bill here . |
| 25 | Determination surged afresh through Emily 's consciousness , she would rebuild her father 's reputation and his business , she would show the world that Emily Grenfell was no weak-kneed lady of leisure , but as strong as any man when it came to business . |
| 26 | The man had been tall , but as tall as this ? |
| 27 | His eyes were small , but as shrewd as any Topaz had seen and she knew she would n't be able to gull him . |
| 28 | In practice , the County Council 's network covered a wider area , but as important as that fact was its independence : it was a sign of the growing distrust with which the public judged the nuclear ‘ experts ’ . |
| 29 | It is a remarkable finding from these interviews that of those informants who married before 1918 almost half — and over half if we include those with soldier husbands — lived for an initial period , sometimes brief but often two or more years , with one of their parents before moving into a house of their own . |
| 30 | But even worse than this neglect of anything that happened outside the courts of Europe was the way that political history was distilled into a narrative , based on whatever literary evidence was at hand . |