Example sentences of "was [adv] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could see that I was slowly but surely getting back to my old self , and to my own poetry . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | Your first prescription was right but a new remedy is now needed . |
| 6 | They soon learned that an internally consistent paper with logical relationships to what had gone before stood a better chance of acceptance than something which was right but new : civil servants after all knew little about the industry and had little basis on which to judge proposals except consistency with what had gone before . |
| 7 | I felt I was right but my stock was low on this establishment . |
| 8 | And I was really wrecked and I was I was n't even actually ill I just sat , well I was eventually but I sat on this wall for about four hours , yeah |
| 9 | A violent uprising by a Marxist-nationalist group , the JVP , was effectively but brutally crushed in 1989–90 . |
| 10 | 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 " ! |
| 11 | These had been her favourites when she was little but had not of ten been allowed because the sauce oozed out the sides and made a mess of your clothes . |
| 12 | His face , grotesque in the torchlight , was little but bone , dirt and gristle . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Mrs Cossins and husband Ray decided four children was enough but ended up with six when nine-year-old Stephen and Caroline , eight , were both born after a sterilisation operation at North Tees General Hospital . |
| 15 | The journey was long but pleasant , although I did not really enjoy the last leg from Kuala Lumpur to Perth . |
| 16 | The scenery was grim , the food was unappetising , fashion was all but non-existent ( he did buy a Burberry raincoat — his ‘ famous blue raincoat ’ — which he adorned till someone relieved him of it in New York 20 years later ) , the arts were struggling , almost moribund , despite the explosive qualities of Kingsley Amis , John Osborne , Colin Wilson , and Alan Sillitoe ; and the weather was atrocious . |
| 17 | While the others are assigned to carvings which were partially damaged David Esterly has to recreate something which was all but destroyed in the fire . |
| 18 | The age of the bucket-and-spade seaside special was all but dead by 1980 , so what filled the void ? |
| 19 | The sum was raised at a model aircraft flying display that was all but washed out through appalling weather . |
| 20 | All three thought it right that the fight continued in the eleventh round when McDonnell 's right eye was all but closed , though the fighter admitted he could not see from that eye . |
| 21 | In 1863 it was all but gutted by a disastrous fire , but mercifully the ashlar-faced east façade remained entirely intact with its projected balustraded bay , its shell-headed niches , its eccentric demonstration of Doric , Ionic and Corinthian columns in three tiers — all in Purbeck stone . |
| 22 | He was 27 years old , and though they now deny it , his group , The Doors , was all but finished . |
| 23 | By about 1860 , the cloth trade in Painswick was all but extinct , one of the last survivors the concern of E.P . |
| 24 | In the same year , the Hoppers ' Bel Air mansion was all but burnt down in a fire and virtually the whole of Dennis 's collection of poems and paintings were destroyed . |
| 25 | The coffee-bar era — twee and tame in hindsight — was all but gone , and the great new wave of stylism was heralded by rock stars , Indian mystics and Dr Timothy Leary , the high priest of the marijuana and acid society . |
| 26 | By 1968 , the clean-cut image of lads in suits and neatly trimmed hair was definitely for the birds , but not the Byrds , and the Monkees had all but swung from their last branch ; the exploitation of four young men who were plucked from audition lines and manufactured into an internationally famous foursome was all but over . |
| 27 | The sodium and calcium cations , Na+ and Ca2+ , would loosely bond to these oxygens occupying occasional holes and voids in the glass-forming network ; that the modifying cations might have a well-defined local structure was all but ruled out . |
| 28 | Her small-voiced reply was all but lost in the wind . |
| 29 | On entering the solar , Joan was reminded of that other visit and what had come after — and was all but overwhelmed by distress . |
| 30 | Admittedly the attacking Scots had a planned assault to carry out , but in the circumstances keeping to the plan was all but impossible . |