Example sentences of "are [adv] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tachykinins are a family of biologically active neuropeptides that are widely but selectively distributed in both the central and the peripheral nervous systems , where they may function as neurotransmitters ( 1 ) . |
| 2 | The Pentagon believes that the Russians are slowly but surely catching up with Western technology , often with Western know-how . |
| 3 | As many developing countries are slowly but surely moving from economies based predominantly on agriculture into manufacturing and service industries , and as Third World populations are moving in great numbers from rural to urban areas , there are concomitant changes in the structures of food provision in these countries ( Abbott , 1987 ) . |
| 4 | This reinforced findings reported elsewhere that Motorways are wrongly but widely thought to be the most dangerous type of road . |
| 5 | Yet a surprisingly large proportion of market research is still based on the spending patterns of the baby boomers ' parents , and so implicitly assumes that they are all but identical . |
| 6 | The mills are all but gone , the chimneys felled ; the air is clean , the town is green with trees and wide spaces ; it is proper , neat , contained ; cobbles , clogs and polluted drizzle from the thundering cotton-mills have long since been abolished . |
| 7 | Down in the old Arab quarter of Jaffa , the cosy streets of Roberts ' lithographs are all but gone . |
| 8 | The pioneering days are all but over . |
| 9 | The difficulties of the cruise are all but forgotten by most . |
| 10 | Referring to Peter Brooke 's statement that the British Government no longer had any interest in staying in Ireland , Daisy said : ‘ Peter Brooke 's talks about talks are all but finished . |
| 11 | But now to reality , for the ‘ classic ’ carp fishing days are all but dead . |
| 12 | MOST spiders weave webs that are all but invisible , but some species include a very conspicuous broad band of silk across the middle of the web . |
| 13 | THE days of wedding night nerves are all but over . |
| 14 | Goblins are so weak and vulnerable that small units are all but useless , while the principle of deep ranks and narrow frontage is essential for combat survival . |
| 15 | The transmissions use those soliton waves we told you about way back in summer 1990 ( CI No 1,459 ) , which are electronically induced and never lose their shape as they whiz through optical glass fibre , so that signalling errors are all but non-existent , obviating the need for costly error-correction equipment , which also slows down transmission . |
| 16 | In Britain a party 's first-category candidates somehow find themselves adopted for seats they are all but certain to win , second-category candidates for marginals and third-category candidates for seats they have no hope of winning . |
| 17 | It is however the subtler aspects of weight , control and role which " colour " the process , to the extent where one case is so different from another that their common origins are all but lost . |
| 18 | Features such as kerning , tracking , inter-letter and inter-word spacing control , ligatures and hung punctuation are all but unknown in page makeup yet no typographer would be without them . |
| 19 | External frames are all but defunct in the UK because most have accepted that the ergonomically contoured internal frame sack is much more stable to carry than an external frame pack , even at the expense of some loss of ventilation to the back . |
| 20 | Packs roam everywhere at will and the few towns have not ‘ Wares to police the whole countryside , so the farmers and herders are mostly left to fend for themselves and , as I said , the hunters are all but ruined . |
| 21 | The messages that DNA molecules contain are all but eternal when seen against the time scale of individual lifetimes . |
| 22 | At the far left-hand end of the scale are events which are all but certain , such as the probability that the sun will rise tomorrow — the subject of G. H. Hardy 's halfpenny bet . |
| 23 | Other contributions which absorb as much in the way of time and intellectual effort — new methodological or computational techniques , datasets which have some general usefulness — are all but discounted . |
| 24 | The adonis blue and silver-skipper butterflies are all but extinct . |
| 25 | Northern Ireland are all but out of the competition , needing a miracle to make it to the US , Scotland are already out and Wales are still in with a chance . |
| 26 | Chief call notes are loud but rather liquid disyllabic croaks , ‘ curruc ’ and ‘ kittic ’ and a ‘ kaak ’ . |
| 27 | The bedrooms are comfortably but simply furnished and have a private bathroom . |
| 28 | Just as assets are usually but not invariably founded on legal rights , so a legal obligation is a common feature of a liability but is not always present . |
| 29 | ‘ What sometimes appear to be new strategies decentralisation , management by objectives , consultative supervision , ‘ democratic ’ leadership are usually but old wine in new bottles , because the procedures derived to implement them are derived from the same inadequate assumptions about human nature … |
| 30 | Our prisoners are kept safe in the bilboes you were prescient to despatch , and I would have had this Dulay hanged but that he might in death prove a beacon to this same rabble and draw them on to greater reprisals against us , and we are still but few in number . |