Example sentences of "were [adv] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a way they were right but , thankfully , I was never hanged though I was close to it on many occasions . |
| 2 | Liebowitz and Horowitz were primarily concerned with attacking what they saw as the myopic perspectives of politics and the sociology of deviance , but the clear implication of their convergence thesis was that conventional deviance and leftist political struggle were slowly but surely converging . |
| 3 | Trade continued to fluctuate in the 1880s , and from now on worries were regularly expressed in the STC : " however reluctant we may have been to realise the position into which we were slowly but surely drifting " the threat was now a permanent reality . " |
| 4 | Emigrations to both America and Australia were overland but after the ice-caps melted some 10000 years ago , those populations became isolated from the others . |
| 5 | The shutters were all but useless . |
| 6 | There was one girl in particular who interested Harriet , a small girl with hair cut gamin short , whose face was so expressive that it seemed to reflect every one of the emotions that they were all feeling , these midinettes who had basted hemlines and stitched hooks and eyes into place , positioned trimmings and sewed them into place with such tiny stitches that they were all but invisible to the naked eye . |
| 7 | Weighing it all up , Ramsay came to the conclusion that the chances of capturing the usurper at this stage were all but non-existent , and that their wisest course was to return at once with his dire news to the main Scots array in Annandale or wherever it had reached by now . |
| 8 | The odds against him were all but unimaginable . |
| 9 | In Aquitaine , between 1451 and 1453 , French armies did indeed meet with resistance : but the fact remains that the battles of Formigny ( 1450 ) and Castillon ( 1453 ) only finished off in dramatic fashion processes which were all but complete when the opposing armies met . |
| 10 | The car 's hydraulics soughed as they tried to compensate for the sudden shift of the bubble but against that gale they were all but useless , and the bubble-canopy clanged on the car 's shell . |
| 11 | The roads were all but deserted south of London . |
| 12 | Like magic , laughter and dancing broke out everywhere and the 60 treacherous kilometres were all but forgotten . |
| 13 | He caught a good couple of pounds of roach on ledgered casters from bites that were all but invisible . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , the audience were all but collapsing in their seats , as Kenneth danced around like , as he put it , ‘ a demented fairy , asking for a bit ’ . |
| 15 | Instead of taking Barnsley to the cleaners , it was Swindon who went in the washtub and were all but scrubbed out . |
| 16 | It was not only that the players were away but that while they were away they were losing badly . |
| 17 | Cursory reading of the financial pages over the past few months would have left the average reader with the impression that while the US and UK economies were laboriously but undeniable clambering out of the recessionary trough , Japan was flat on its back and looking like getting worse before it got better , and that high interest rates in Germany were plunging that economy into a recessionary black hole and dragging most of the rest of the continent with it — now comes a report from International Data Corp saying its Global IT Survey of 5,000 computer executives , 500 chief executives and finance chiefs , and 1,100 local network managers in six biggest economies indicates that growth in computer spending will rise 2% to 3% in 1993 and , surprise , surprise — the US and the UK should outperform the rest of Europe and Japan . |
| 18 | On May 31 President Ramiz Alia appealed in the People 's Assembly for patience : the strikers ' demands were just but they could not be met immediately , he said . |
| 19 | Dealing through a third party made things more difficult than they were already but the young officer could n't deal with a situation like this and the Captain could n't risk not making himself perfectly understood . |
| 20 | Wycliffe looked about him and approved , especially of the walls which , in some past time , had been stencilled with designs that were mildly but cheerfully crazy so that to look at them for long made the eyes go funny . |
| 21 | But the nails that were nearly but not quite claws had reached Grainne , and a burning , lacerating pain sliced through her shoulder . |
| 22 | At a certain point you may appear to be back where you were before but you can not quite be sure . |
| 23 | The Cuban Communists , who for the first six months of 1959 had made policy proclamations which were cautiously but unequivocally more radical than Castro 's , subsequently found that they were fast being outstripped by him in the proposal of anti-capitalist measures . |
| 24 | Then she decided to be awkward , like she always is , and said I says oh it 's still taping you know and I s she said summat , I ca n't remember what it were now but I was saying , I knew that 'd happen , one minute yes then no , then I 'll think about it , I says and if I did n't start it when you went out you 'd be saying you could 've done this and that and er so she were chittering , pretending she said I could n't do it . |
| 25 | England , silver medallists in the European Under-18 women 's tournament in Dusseldorf last year , were surprisingly but deservedly beaten 2–1 by Spain , last year 's fourth-placed side , on the opening day of this season 's competition at Clifton College , Bristol , yesterday . |
| 26 | ‘ I could ask where each of you were today but what 's the use ? ’ |
| 27 | They were hard but gentle men . |
| 28 | No , it meant you were there but it was for other people to do something about it — if anything had to be done . |
| 29 | Luiza and Freddi were there but he knew they would be hopeless . |
| 30 | Well they th th the kids were there but |