Example sentences of "is [adv] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Italian Federation is fighting a rearguard battle against this trend , which is slowly but surely killing Italian rugby . |
| 2 | Gazza is slowly but surely learning the Italian language , making it work for him . |
| 3 | He is politely but quite openly starting to mock her . |
| 4 | Its heart is in the right place , the detail is right but the texture is wrong . |
| 5 | and er he said to himself there 's something I , I , I do n't know what it is necessarily but there is something , go to a specialist and the specialist was very very good you know blah blah blah blah you want some te I want some tests , you know , so I had some tests , you know and the crew that were doing the tests they knew what they were looking for and they either found it or they did n't , do n't know . |
| 6 | This Billy Bunterish buffoon is constantly but cheerfully beaten up as he pursues his doomed amorous adventures , for no man outdoes him in ‘ passive valour ’ . |
| 7 | Well I suppose it is basically but no flute that 's what we were looking for . |
| 8 | Cos in one respect I 'd rather do what I think is enough but er than too much and then feel like a bloated little |
| 9 | Their faces : they look like people on their way into hospital , as if life is worryingly but fascinatingly strange . |
| 10 | The bathroom is downstairs but there are three bedrooms so it 's quite a decent size for them . |
| 11 | I do n't know how long it 's going to go on for , or what it is exactly but I thought it would be a good idea to ring your dad up and see . |
| 12 | This hypothesis is largely but not wholly borne out by the empirical evidence . |
| 13 | Conversation at table is as superfluous as a sermon in church ; all is still but for the ping of the latest microwave masterpiece . |
| 14 | This gives Table 10.1 , so the optimal solution is still but the optimal value is . |
| 15 | Such however is the mighty Providence that guides us , we were adverted in due time withal and haply able to forestall the deadly peril to our settlement , that is still but a mewling infant scarce able to totter on bandy legs . |
| 16 | Charity Swindle There is still but one sponsor for my wicket-keeping efforts in the coming season . |
| 17 | One end of W is rapidly but delicately electrically vibrated allowing the writing head to make equally rapid , if intermittent , contact with the paper . |
| 18 | People do n't mind being referred if it 's something that is genuinely but say they phone Leeds and Leeds do n't know and Leeds refer them to a number they think it is and then they refer to a third number then somebody gets . |
| 19 | Stilettoes make your feet , your feet is like but because these are platforms they 're erm |
| 20 | Most deaths are caused not by catastrophic accidents but by fouling from oil that is illegally but routinely discharged from ships . |
| 21 | The cutting edge is also rounded and is reasonably but not dangerously sharp . |
| 22 | A far cry from the £2 tray meal handed out on the first of the Scenic Land Cruise trains eight years earlier , in a decade of special-train running where sophistication got its chance — and left behind many ordinary folk for whom the railway ‘ excursion ’ is now but a fading memory . |
| 23 | What has happened , therefore , is a transfer of production from the field to the factory floor , so that the field is now but one stage of the production-line process . |
| 24 | Well , it , it , it looked very similar , not quite as good as it is now but er , it was n't no where near as wide of course . |
| 25 | I do n't know whee it is now but it was there . |
| 26 | He lived down Gypsy Lane with his two sisters , he was a single man you see and my father and mother lived here and my , they not only mended shoes but they made them and er course naturally , you know , well of course Needham was n't as big as it is now but they made them for the best people , if that , if that 's the right , not the right expression say , but er but you know what I mean er and er and he , you know , all his life you see he did that and then one day he had a shock because his er , what would you call him colleague , he , he died suddenly in the night . |
| 27 | Mm but I , I mean I can use it as it is now but anything else on to it I would find it difficult . |
| 28 | I know what it is now but |
| 29 | Thus the redistribution in favour of the lowest 20 per cent shown in Table 3.24 is mainly but not exclusively for retirement pensioners . |
| 30 | Considerable investment in the Spanish coal industry is underway but even so most of the increased supplies needed to meet projected levels of demand , will have to be imported . |