Example sentences of "but [adv] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Arsenal won the league again two years later , it did n't feel the same — partly because it was achieved in a less dramatic fashion , but mostly because I had nothing left . |
| 2 | But mostly because I wanted you to have time to make comparisons . |
| 3 | In the station in which the unit is based ( not Easton ) , the attitude of the policemen towards it is not positive , partly as a result of their ambivalent attitudes toward sex crimes , but mostly because it is policed by women , who therefore are said to spend their time in Boots and Marks and Spencer , making it an easy duty ( FN 30/11/87 , p. 18 ) . |
| 4 | The Japanese came to Britain partly for low wage-costs and a welcoming government , but mostly because it is in Europe . |
| 5 | The problem is not so much whether you can or ca n't but rather whether you want to . |
| 6 | This was much in vogue in the 1960s , due not only to the fashionable ideas of Marshall McLuhan , but the more serious earlier work by Wiener ( 1948 ) and Shannon and Weaver ( 1949 ) , but as time has passed doubts have grown not so much about its existence , but rather whether it does not constitute two distinct fields of machine and human communication , for which information theory can not provide a unifying paradigm . |
| 7 | Yeah , but rather than what , what is frightening . |
| 8 | ‘ A scientific truth , ’ he wrote , and one can almost see the tightly pressed lips , hear the snapping of the pencil , ‘ does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light , but rather because its opponents eventually die , and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it . ’ |
| 9 | If the Situationist project is flawed , as I believe it is , it is not because antecedent theories of libertarians , Marxists and Council Communists are ignored by them , but rather because they lacked the will to build on this tradition a systematic utopianism consisting of critique and plausible projections into the future . |
| 10 | There are also some splendid quotes ; Planck 's gloomy view of the advance of science led him to believe that scientific truth triumphs not by convincing its opponents , but rather because they eventually die . |
| 11 | This is not , as Young ( 1981 : 328 ) asserts , because they are ‘ well calculated to be ineffective ’ , but rather because they have not been framed with a crucial issue in mind — how far can a national state regulatory agency effect the operations of a transnational corporation , particularly when its parental state is one of the two world imperialist powers ? |
| 12 | This is not because they wish to act in the public interest as exemplified in the values of their political masters , but rather because they wish to succeed in their careers and the way to do so is to appear efficient . |
| 13 | However , this was not because the goods were unfit for use but rather because they included goods of a different description . |
| 14 | It was not because I was particularly pious , but rather because my namesake , Nicholas Breakspear , had been the only Englishman who had ever become Pope . |
| 15 | This is a very interesting proposal for BSL , not because we can see the conscious efforts of BSL learners to match their signing to BSL grammar but rather because there is a matching to English grammar . |
| 16 | A more structural view is that of Marxist feminist writers who have argued that the family exists , not for the harmonious delight of its members , but rather because it is a source of benefit to capital , since women can be made to labour for free in the reproduction of wage-labourers . |
| 17 | He spoke of it a lot that evening : not to bring home to her all he 'd done but rather because it 'd been perhaps the biggest single event in his ( now rather dull ) life . |
| 18 | Sometimes " of course " is added not because the information is obvious , but rather because you want to create the effect of being someone so deeply familiar with the material that this information is basic or obvious . |
| 19 | He rejects the criteria favoured by Thompson not , of course , out of mere dogmatism , but rather because he believes that the self-consciousness of a class is not a crucial factor in explaining its birth and development . |
| 20 | He looked scared , not so much , Owen judged , because he was in the hands of the police but rather because he was in different surroundings from those he was used to , the modern , built-up , Europeanized part of the city and not the warren of tiny mediaeval streets he normally inhabited . |
| 21 | I am not talking here about your work surfaces , or work triangles or the general space/work efficiency of your kitchen , but rather if you could use your kitchen as more of a family room-the sort of room which friends as well as family tend to migrate to at the first available opportunity . |
| 22 | Accordingly a minimum of £5 will be preferred in the present work , not so much as an arbitrary demarcation , but rather as one which should prompt us to seek further evidence to confirm the holder 's status . |
| 23 | I should like to make it clear from the outset that I am participating in this conference not as an expert on any aspect of the teaching of languages , but rather as someone whose primary concern is with the structure of language and , more generally , the nature of cognitive processes . |
| 24 | We buy clothes because we like them , are inspired by them , ca n't ( supposedly ) live without them … but rarely because we will otherwise die of exposure . |
| 25 | And he answered : You give but little when you give of your possessions . |
| 26 | But perhaps because she was thus secretly rejecting him and yet knew at the same time that he was in love with her , a sense of justice prompted her to help him in amorous efforts , to support him , to rid him of childish embarrassment . |
| 27 | But perhaps if they had listened to what folk-legend had maintained for thousands of years neurobiologists would not have been so surprised at the learning and memory capacity of the bees . |
| 28 | We had problems that last year with bits of this assignment until the mailing went out and then , you know , the video cassette , the specimen cassette was available but perhaps if it had been a couple of weeks earlier it would have been better . |
| 29 | But perhaps if I had … ’ |
| 30 | But er yeah , it 's , it 's I find it loses er , a little bit of interest fairly quickly erm because it 's , the main subject , the chap jumping down , I think the road was nicely shown , but perhaps if you could have just had a , a longer lens just to make it a bit more important in the picture . |