Example sentences of "[noun sg] but [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It needs a powerful machine to run it at a reasonable speed but even if you do n't have such a machine you need to know about it as a sign of things to come . |
| 2 | The section on the chemistry of gasication is not so definitive partly because the temperature gradient , which varies according to fuel and gasifier design , affects both the position of chemical equilibria and the relative rates of different reactions within the gasifier but also because few experimental results are available for interpretation . |
| 3 | It is interesting that the Secretary of State does not claim that he has a majority of public opinion on his side but merely that the very large majority against trust status was ill informed and listened to Labour propaganda . |
| 4 | This ‘ business ’ characteristic does not require that he should regularly carry on business as an agent but simply that on the occasion in question he was acting as a business proposition . |
| 5 | we were able to persuade our new manager Wilf Howe not only of the potential importance of QA to the department but also that we should have an ambitious leap ahead of other departments . |
| 6 | It is now time to attempt to draw together not only the material presented in this chapter but also that considered in Chapter 3 . |
| 7 | Answers tend to be vague and general , and sometimes phrased in terms of domains or interlocutors , as in the following description : Well they do n't really use it , like , well , now and then , like if we 're all in the family , if like my mum 's going to say somefing , right , she wo n't say " Wayne would you go do de dishes please " , she 'll say [ z ] somep'n like dat — she would say it in a West Indian talk but normally if like if there 's a visitor or something it would be plain English … |
| 8 | In the contrasting situation , when there is no convention but only agreement in conviction , everyone follows the same rule but principally because he thinks it independently the best rule to follow . |
| 9 | Conspiracy as a crime was developed by the Star Chamber during the seventeenth century and , when taken over by the common law courts , came to be regarded by them as not only a crime but also as capable of giving rise to civil liability provided damage resulted to the plaintiff . |
| 10 | When some of these were examined , they were found to be less than successful ; in some cases because of poor engineering practice but generally because of inadequate evaluation of the economic factors involved . |
| 11 | Fingers come round , things go in and out of my mouth but even when I venture to open my eyes I see nothing . |
| 12 | Four years had elapsed since that splendid wedding but somehow although she herself had passed from childhood to early womanhood , Anne had still pictured Richard as he had been then . |
| 13 | The Government promoted Swahili as a national language not only because it was useful in administration but also because it was seen as an instrument ‘ for uniting the people of the nation 's different tribes ’ . |
| 14 | The expression ‘ new ’ in relation to a vehicle is capable of meaning not just in new condition but also that the car has not been registered . |
| 15 | This was not merely through the intrinsic loss but also because family status and honour were intimately linked to possession of land . |
| 16 | I 'm against rape but definitely if a woman er goes to a man 's bed then it 's quite er er sensible that if a man expects to have sex with that woman . |
| 17 | Not just because of its range but also because of the quality of the material . |
| 18 | Since Jarvella instructed his subjects to recall as much as they could remember word for word , and he scored for accuracy of verbatim recall , these results suggest not only that the last-heard clause has the highest verbatim recall but also that the amount of syntactic information which is being retained about a preceding clause depends on whether or not that clause forms part of a larger linguistic unit which also includes the most recent clause . |
| 19 | His clothes were in more of a mess but just because he had been in the city longer . |
| 20 | The exercise is principally an informational one : it ensures not only that the minister is informed of local views for and against a proposal but also that those views are tested in the inspector 's enquiry , and fully considered in the subsequent report by the inspector to the minister . |
| 21 | THE holiday ads are tempting you away with the usual images of fun and sun but rather than taking a package why not invest in that longed-for overseas home ? |
| 22 | Even in a country such as Ivory Coast , generally regarded as in the capitalist camp , government has been the decisive player in the economy not only as policymaker but also as holder of equity capital . |
| 23 | Eventually Emerson got past Regazzoni and then Peterson whose car was more like a wrestling opponent than a smooth machine But just as Fittipaldi was beginning to think he might be able to make up Ickx 's fifteen-second lead , his gearbox went off and caught fire and Emerson made a hasty emergency exit . |
| 24 | In medical schools a great deal is taught about the medical and other consequences of high alcohol consumption but little or nothing is taught about alcoholism , the addictive disease . |
| 25 | Some groups were not favourably received partly because they had little to offer the council but also because they were seen as making ‘ unreasonable ’ demands on the local authority — that is , demands which did not square with the councillors ' own policy predispositions . |
| 26 | You can stand on a stage grinning like a fool but sooner or later you 've got to stand up for what you believe in , ’ says Harding . |
| 27 | Warm things are said in the flush of the campaign but now that it 's over the first question the Tories should ask is how it would look to the country if a victorious party launched into a frontal assault on the BBC in the wake of its victory . |
| 28 | With Methodists , however , the talk of reunion bore fruit not only at home but abroad where English divisions had been taken by emigrants . |
| 29 | Praise was never given to an individual child but only when the entire class did well . |
| 30 | Kemalpasazade sought the advice of Mueyyedzade who counselled him to feign acceptance of Hacihasanzade 's proposal ; and when , on the next day , the latter petitioned the sultan , Bayezid II , to appoint Kemalpasazade to a kadilik , Mueyyedzade intervened , speaking highly of Kemalpasazade 's abilities and asking that he not be wasted in a kadilik but rather that he be given the vacant Taslik medrese so that he might busy himself with the pursuit of learning . |