Example sentences of "[adv] but [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gets a bit of sea-gusting somewhat but a lot of good land on Holland . |
| 2 | She talked to friends , not only about the happy times they 'd had together but the inevitable disappointments . |
| 3 | At first , we rode together but the freshness of the horses , particularly Bowyer 's and Southgate 's , meant we had to break up . |
| 4 | He clenched his teeth together but the first syllable forced itself around the corner of his mouth . |
| 5 | Thus Smith wrote that ‘ people in the same trade seldom meet together but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public . ’ |
| 6 | Use to model a head , a torso and two arms — mould the body and head together but the arms separately . |
| 7 | ‘ I liked Selina very much but a lot of people in Rothesay did n't . |
| 8 | Not much but a bit . |
| 9 | Stephen of course is suffering much but the distress if general . ’ |
| 10 | Scope for agricultural improvement is limited naturally but the RP provides 40% of the cost of fences so that grazing land can be compartmentalised and grazed more effectively , 40% of the cost of providing livestock watering facilities and 40% of the cost of adding fertilisers or grass seed ( applied on to existing pastures and trodden in by livestock ) . |
| 11 | Well I suppose it is basically but no flute that 's what we were looking for . |
| 12 | All the pews have been removed from inside but the font and the altar rail remain . |
| 13 | Two-thirds of the ground floor of each house in the terrace was taken up by a garage ; the door to Sybil 's stood open with the car inside but the other three were closed , revealing that the owners had differing and not particularly compatible tastes in colour . |
| 14 | Examples are listed below but the list is not definitive and other information may be acceptable : |
| 15 | you know , well they 've done brilliantly but the market we 've b between us we 've got a good for the market . |
| 16 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 17 | Exeunt all but the bastard |
| 18 | That particular single matter was not pursued by the ombudsman an and that therefore means that erm it is n't something that er he felt was a question of maladministration but I did want just to emphasise that this particular point , because in the more er i in the recent report to the Policy Resources Committee on ombudsman complaints , the number , and I ca n't recall exactly what the number was , but the number included in that report relating to planning matters was certainly higher than one , I think there were about half a dozen and what I wanted to take the opportunity of explaining was the , the majority of those all but the one that I 've now referred to , er where in fact relating to district matter planning applications and not to the County Council . |
| 19 | I had enjoyed the last two months greatly but the journey , though arduous , had involved no real danger . |
| 20 | but oh he he , he does do stripping obviously but the |
| 21 | ‘ Well , I did n't know her personally but the other night like , I think it was her that we seen on the Woodham Road . ’ |
| 22 | Community and confrontation do n't go together , which is fair enough but a bit cosy . |
| 23 | The front seats are comfortable enough but the next row , well . |
| 24 | The time could not have been worse , defeat by Peru was bad enough but the entire Scottish party had been invited to a reception with the Minister of Sport Denis Howell , a former referee and a declared opponent of drug abuse in sport . |
| 25 | The reality may well be that the enterprise is not competitive enough but the military metaphor is a way of bringing about this attitude . |
| 26 | She seemed calm enough but the fit she had thrown on first wakening was fresh in his mind . |
| 27 | All this was unusual enough but the most extraordinary part of Billy Arjan Singh 's relationship with Harriet was to come . |
| 28 | The wooded area is nice enough but the schools have a long history of desegregation problems , and are now 88% black and 10% Hispanic . |
| 29 | Nick went to the local Primary because he was still young enough but the older children were given lessons by their own teachers in the Chapels . |
| 30 | The actual content ( Anthrax plus hooker 's breasts , Manitoba 's Wild Kingdom plus a junk food mountain etc etc ad nauseum ) is insulting enough but the video magazine format soon gets right up your nose . |