Example sentences of "but [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first I thought the kick was going to leave him with a permanently capped hock , but luckily Lynn Russell ( the friend , show producer and dealer who sold Skipper to me ) had all the answers , as usual . |
| 2 | I believe the referee is going to put it in his report , but luckily Ian was unmarked and not badly hurt . ’ |
| 3 | As mentioned previously , this so often happened with monotonous and maddening frequency during operations , but luckily radio contact was regained in the nick of time and the message was passed that Margate seemed the most likely landing spot . |
| 4 | It hurt a lot but thankfully Doctor Costa was able to fix me . |
| 5 | Mark Burke the second … the last few minutes were frightening … but thankfully Wolves 2-1 win was n't enough to stop Town going through 3-2 on aggregate … |
| 6 | Electronic mailing lists like this can easily be infiltrated by other supporters , but thankfully segregation is n't necessary , and so far policemen on horses have yet to be called in to arrest computer terminals ( or even Sonic the Hedgehog ) for causing an affray . |
| 7 | But unofficially doctors say the figure is closer to 3,500 . |
| 8 | A general strike by supporters of both sides ( but predominantly Hungarians ) had been called in surrounding regions and the Hungarian Prime Minister Miklós Németh sent a letter of protest to Bucharest and appealed to the UN to intervene . |
| 9 | The British Fourth Army attacked with 13 divisions north of the River Somme on a front of some 24kml/15smls ; five divisions of the French Sixth Army attacked astride , but mostly south , of the river . |
| 10 | For the next three hours I witness a surreal nightmare of racing fire engines , caravans of police cars with blue and red lights flashing , a few looting bands , but mostly residents in bathrobes and curlers , gathered in silence to watch corner markets go up in smoke . |
| 11 | I 've had funny letters , sad letters , letters from children , teenagers , young mums and grans , but mostly letters from fellow sufferers , relating their own experiences . |
| 12 | ‘ Mr Angel — ’ No , do n't be cheeky , ' — or You There or Buggerlugs — but mostly Roy . ’ |
| 13 | The persons surveyed were certainly eminent , but mostly people ( even politicians ! ) whose achievements were rarely so enduring as to place them in the class apart to which we would assign the truly original thinkers in history . |
| 14 | There are western goods in the shops but mostly people can only afford to look . |
| 15 | That 's where the Norwegians and Swedes — well , sometimes the British sailors got in — but mostly foreigners used to go . |
| 16 | Anyway ; he brought down this book ; history of the War in pictures , and it had like all these photos of the death camps , where the Nazis murdered millions of Jews , and communists , and homosexuals , and gypsies and anybody else they did n't like … but mostly Jews , and there were like just piles of bodies ; incredibly thin bodies , like bones ; skeletons wrapped with tissue paper , and piled higher than a house … and pits ; long pits full of bodies , and the metal stretchers they were put onto to be shoved into the ovens , and the piles of wedding rings and spectacles ; glasses , and even artificial legs and weird stuff like that … |
| 17 | It is not religion , nor its truth-claims , that is the trouble , but rather attitudes of selfishness and possessiveness — of thinking of religion or of truth as an entity which we have and somebody else does not have . |
| 18 | It is not a natural similarity but rather sex stereotyping that prompts the comparison between men and fierce animals or women and helpless children . |
| 19 | It is often said that unfettered insider dealing does not hurt shareholders ; that insiders ' profits are not outsiders ' losses , but rather evidence of a more efficient allocation of resources ; Just because an investor does not make as much money on the sale of his shares as he would otherwise have done , does not make him a victim in the true sense , as nothing has been stolen from him . |
| 20 | For implicatures are not semantic inferences , but rather inferences based on both the content of what has been said and some specific assumptions about the cooperative nature of ordinary verbal interaction . |
| 21 | In any particular society , real life suggests to us that the answers are neither black nor white but rather shades of grey . |
| 22 | The goal of tolerance and mutual respect is not one , all-embracing religion , but rather unity in diversity . |
| 23 | Her options are not precisely heterosexuality and lesbianism , but rather seduction and chastity . |
| 24 | Doctor Martin Novak 's team believes the virus does n't lie dormant as had been thought up till now , but rather copies itself or mutates . |
| 25 | This may not be out of unwillingness but rather ignorance on the part of parents : they do not know how to go about encouraging such skills . |
| 26 | For example , in grammar , sentences are not directly composed of words , but rather sentences are composed of clauses , which in turn are composed of phrases or further ( subordinate ) clauses , the phrases in turn being composed of words . |
| 27 | ‘ No one really understood that it was n't anti-women , but rather pro-women , ’ he insists . |
| 28 | What I have just offered have been partial readings of the Haec Vir pamphlet and The Roaring Girl , partial not in the sense ( at least this is not what I 'm confessing ) of being distortions of the texts , but rather readings that focus upon textual elements which can be correlated with oppositional cultural elements within Jacobean society , and consequently possible audience positions and reading responses . |
| 29 | This is not , as it might have been with such a tale , the cuckolded merchant , but rather Margery , the stupid wife , who is particularly funny because she is so unthinkingly conventionally good and who effaces any real self she may be imagined to have within a cluster of clichés . |
| 30 | The Mahmud Pasa concerned , he suggests , is thus not the Grand Vezir Mahmud Pasa , but rather Kassabzade Mahmud Bey , who had been Mehmed II's tutor when he went to Manisa in 1443 and who was a leading figure in the events of 1444 . |