Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] but [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He discoursed about his understanding of the Church and he said that we had to hold the high and the low together but for his part his sympathies were with the high . |
| 2 | I was so hurt it was like a serious wound , it would start being painful soon but in the meantime there was just an apprehensive numbness . |
| 3 | Mr Singh and i drove through the wide streets of New Delhi , empty now but for a few pilgrims washing under the public pumps near the shrine of Nizamuddin . |
| 4 | A all very interesting indeed but for le let's now talk about the boundaries in the open business . |
| 5 | Military commanders sometimes push a salient forward but at other times they advance on a broad front . |
| 6 | Obedience under legal authority is not owed to an individual personally but to the impersonal and abstract rules specifying the rights of office . |
| 7 | It is very easy sometimes but with other works it is difficult if you get a score and you do n't know what the composer is thinking . |
| 8 | At high frequencies , the impedances of the series and parallel arms are again high and low respectively but on account of series inductance and parallel capacitance . |
| 9 | For barnacles a quadrat of 0.01 m2 is plenty large enough but for limpets and winkles a 0.1 m2 is best . |
| 10 | As Kempton said ‘ It 's possible there would be no National now but for Foinavon winning . |
| 11 | I get the impression that , of the three , Hardenberger 's favourite is the Blake Watkins Concerto , which he considers ‘ very English , more traditional perhaps but without being in any way limited . |
| 12 | Keyboard : tap the Del for Delete key smartly but with caution . |
| 13 | For instance , when poor forms part of an identifying phrase with liar it is natural that its notion of DEFICIENT should most readily be understood to mean a deficiency in the matter of lying ; when a speaker chooses not to use poor attributively but in the predicative construction then a natural inference is that he or she intends the notion DEFICIENT to be taken in the way more typical of human beings in general , that is referring to their material resources . |
| 14 | Just the same , she would have been well ahead but for those policemen turning up again and wanting to ask poor Mrs Fanshawe more questions . |
| 15 | More confident certainly but beneath the banter Diana was a very lonely and unhappy young woman . |
| 16 | She seems harsh awhile but in the end accepts his love . |
| 17 | According to the Police Federation Anna McGurk might well have been alive today but for the Bail Act of 1976 . |
| 18 | Finally , ‘ dedicated ’ asset specificity refers to resources which , in principle , are usable elsewhere but for which no effective demand exists outside the present transaction ; their installation was conditional on continuing demand from a particular buyer ( see Williamson , 1983 : 526 ) . |
| 19 | All of note ( see ‘ Preview ’ in this issue ) : Philips 's ‘ Insignia ’ series , which repackages much that is available elsewhere but by artist , rather than by composer or theme . |
| 20 | Like Derrida , Lecercle seeks to overthrow the hierarchy implicit here but without elevating the Remainder to a new dominant status — Langue and the Remainder are permanently and inescapably involved with one another . |
| 21 | It was hot then but on the race day it was cloudy and cool . |
| 22 | Fair enough but in the future so as not to have |
| 23 | I thought the man was crazy really but in 1966 I did develop an interest and started to attend the services … |
| 24 | ‘ There is n't all that much because she soon fell asleep again but at least I 've got their names . |
| 25 | I do sometimes have a lay down but in my school she says right , can you go and , I go like that . |
| 26 | All the actors are local people but the company would n't allow anyone from the works was to take part … she says , It was very disappointing initially but in some ways that makes it more important that we should go ahead with the project . |
| 27 | Often , owners tend to put this lameness down to bruising etc. but with any lameness in a young foal , joint-ill should be suspected . |
| 28 | Its grey buildings , mainly guest houses displaying ‘ Vacancies ’ at netted windows , looked bad enough but with a leaden sky and a seafront virtually devoid of life , apart from one or two hopefuls trying to find shelter from driving rain , it was almost guaranteed to sink one 's spirits . |
| 29 | They 're not too bad here but at Witham Withamshaw it 'd be a different kettle of fish altogether . |