Example sentences of "[adv prt] but [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , I hoped I 'd made clear that if the profits of Pearsons erm er not only if they went down but even if er , there was only a small erm , increase in earnings per share er next year that the the directors ' salaries would be very considerably reduced and I thought I 'd already made that erm , er , directors ' erm remuneration total take home pay would be considerably reduced thought I 'd already made that point . |
| 2 | For elderly people , time speeds by , partly because their metabolic rate has slowed down but also because life holds far fewer surprises for them . |
| 3 | This is partly because it is difficult for me to write them down but mainly because I do n't have an intuitive feeling for equations . |
| 4 | Black gets it into the box Rozario got a header in but even as he headed the ball he limped away again and if he 'd have been properly fit then he would have really powered that one in . |
| 5 | The person covered by the Plan is the person named on the Midland FlexiLoan Agreement Form who on the date of the Agreement must be : aged 18 or over but less than 65 , actively in permanent and gainful employment ( including self-employment ) of not less than 16 hours a week , and not absent due to sickness or injury . |
| 6 | Ian from Earlsbury , I spent fourteen years in the air force , bull bullying has always gone on but only when soldiers did n't conform . |
| 7 | Arthur Scargill was in no doubt that the government intended to reduce the size of the coalmining industry substantially , through a major programme of pit closures : many tens of thousands of miners ' jobs would be at risk as more and more pits were declared uneconomic , not necessarily because the coal reserves had been worked out but rather because of the perceived costs of mining them , relative to the costs of imports . |