Example sentences of "but [adv] gave [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was then able to spend occasional weekends at her daughters ' flats , but still gave the residential staff a hard time on her return . |
| 2 | This not only took the edge off the bitter taste , but also gave the drink a warm , attractive colour that looked ( even if nothing else about it was similar ) something like the superior imported French wines . |
| 3 | Hitler himself provided encouragement for such opinion when , in his major speech in the Berlin Sportpalast on 3 October 1941 , he not only defended the invasion of the Soviet Union as a preventive war , pre-empting in the nick of time a planned Bolshevik assault on the Reich , but also gave the impression that the back of the Soviet fighting capability had already been broken . |
| 4 | It was not only a neat way to ‘ finish ’ the interior but also gave the dressed corpse the appearance of being in a bed . |
| 5 | In the State Farm case the Supreme Court founded its intervention on the arbitrary and capricious test , but then gave a broader reading to that phrase than that provided in earlier cases . |
| 6 | The main right-wing opposition party , National Renewal ( RN ) , criticized the description of the political circumstances existing at the time of the coup , but otherwise gave the report a favourable reception , as did the parties of Aylwin 's centre-left government and the mainstream left . |