Example sentences of "was [adv] but [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This second phase ( 1945–56 ) must in turn be contrasted with the post-1956 , post-Stalinist phase during which the credibility of the Zhdanov line was slowly but irreversibly undermined , and the centre of gravity of Marxist cultural activity shifted away from orthodox socialist realism to a variety of experiments involving linkages between revolutionary politics and formalist experimentation at the level of imaginative writing , and between Marxist theory and innovations in the human sciences at the level of critical analysis . |
| 2 | He could see that I was slowly but surely getting back to my old self , and to my own poetry . |
| 3 | Gazing into grey eyes that seemed incredibly gentle and soft , she forgot all about his reasons for being there , forgot everything except this infuriating giant who was slowly but surely destroying her peace of mind , ‘ Why ? ’ she whispered . |
| 4 | It was decisive and at times attracted public support because she seemed to be taking action which the public overwhelmingly thought was right but never thought any government would have the nerve to carry out . |
| 5 | A violent uprising by a Marxist-nationalist group , the JVP , was effectively but brutally crushed in 1989–90 . |
| 6 | For instance , the Borough Surveyor wrote to ask for repairs to be made to the wall between the School and Greek Street : he was politely but firmly informed that the wall was not dangerous , " having been in that condition for twenty years " ! |
| 7 | Er , and Mo Mowlam , that 's why I watched it cos Mo Mowlam was on but anyway all these nurses getting twenty thousand a year , staff nurses . |
| 8 | He was replaced by Clement Attlee , the party 's first public-school educated middle-class leader who was widely but wrongly regarded as a temporary appointment . |
| 9 | As I walked , this mood was gradually but smoothly replaced by one of utmost depression , while my body — as though jealous of all the obsessive regard my emotions were receiving — came up with its own demands for attention , evidenced by an unsteady , fluid shifting in my guts , and a cold sweat on my brow . |
| 10 | Too great a reliance on self-financing would , however , require prices which were well above long-run costs ( or as it was differently but conventionally expressed in the contemporary discussion by officials , would burden present-day consumers with an unfair proportion of the costs of supplying electricity in the future ) . |
| 11 | It was accurately but extensively restored in the mid-nineteenth century by Viollet-le-Duc . |
| 12 | I 've stayed the same as I was before but now it 's all right to be what I was before . |
| 13 | His voice was deep but perfectly modulated ; a voice of music , a chorister 's voice . |
| 14 | Aware that the Danes were famous for their elegant designs and their ‘ down comforters ’ she was n't surprised to find her single bed covered by a thick duvet quilt , or to discover the fitted furniture was simply but efficiently styled . |
| 15 | LIKE thousands of other my family was indirectly but irrevocably affected by the unrest of the early 1970s . |
| 16 | Well I suppose it was then but course at that time of day well what we used to suffer with , you suffer with diphtheria and scarlet fever and yo you do n't hear that today do you ? |
| 17 | I listened to it with great interest , and er , I thought again that the County Council was lead role was modestly but quite accurately described in that , fairly lengthy er , interview . |
| 18 | Er that was when I was there but now it 's pumped ashore with well by hose from the ship you know and er they put water in about once or twice a year . |
| 19 | The shop was open and George was there but still yawning . |
| 20 | The custom of wearing jet jewellery as a symbol of mourning was quietly but effectively dropped . |