Example sentences of "but [adv] [det] [conj] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where grandparents were never directly known their occupations may be remembered , but rarely more than that . |
| 2 | Downes seemed slightly surprised — but hardly more than that : ‘ It 's about Theo , I suppose ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A lasting cellular change in output in response to a defined input is at the least a dramatic example of neural plasticity ; but even more than this , the very specific form that the response takes could be regarded as a form of memory . |
| 7 | Like all great writers , but even more than most , Dickens 's vision is idiosyncratic . |
| 8 | It may vary by point one or point two but never more than that . ’ |