Example sentences of "but [adv] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not much , but enough to be sure . |
| 2 | John Hutt was in debt , not to any great extent , but enough to be embarrassing . |
| 3 | ‘ And you are blind , Fernando Serra , not totally but enough to be choosy about what you do see . |
| 4 | I knew little of psychology but enough to be aware of the impact on the unformed ego of an absent father . |
| 5 | I managed to stay out of debt , but only by being careful . |
| 6 | I was n't Marti Caine at that stage , I was Zoe Bond , but only after being Sunny Smith for three weeks . |
| 7 | He had a reprieve which was of indefinite length but better to be pessimistic than otherwise . |
| 8 | He knew he would do it all again , because as he looked across the manicured lawns , the buildings shrouded now in darkness but soon to be brilliant in the blazing sunlight , the scene embodied all his dreams . |
| 9 | I knew Malpass would have had no more than a fleeting glimpse of them , but just to be sure , I went behind the bar and found an empty crisp box . |
| 10 | There was a hole in the ceiling to let in the rain but just to be safe he returned every day for a week to water them and was walking back one afternoon when , turning a corner , he felt a hand on his shoulder . |
| 11 | The opportunities of the mid-1970s were struggling to survive — and the role of the CNAA , having established its commitment to the arts — was to continue to encourage and promote , but also to be critical , to investigate , and when necessary to withdraw approval . |
| 12 | Worse than this , we tend not only to limit ourselves to looking at faces , but also to be preoccupied with whether they smile or not . |
| 13 | These are meant not merely , if at all , to serve a useful instrumental function , but also to be solemn , ritualized expressions of loyalty and identification . |
| 14 | They wanted advice but also to be free to decide whether it was or was not good advice . |
| 15 | To be so accepting of whatever came her way was to be comfortable but also to be dead . |
| 16 | The abilities not just to comprehend , to take things into one 's own understanding , and to make something of them , but also to be able to evaluate critically the available theories and traditions , and to be willing and have the mental toughness to take up a stance of one 's own : all these abilities point to an intellectual independence , requiring real academic freedom for their realization . |
| 17 | In order to reconstitute purposeful and meaningful administrative acts we not only need to save the different communicative acts but also to be able to reconstitute their inter-relationships in real time . |
| 18 | Most temperate species tolerate subzero temperatures to one degree or another , initially by avoiding tissue freezing but also by being able to tolerate and contain ice in their tissues . |
| 19 | But far from being hostile to industrialization they showed increasing concern with economies of scale , technological innovation and economic growth . |
| 20 | But then to be good at a sport , really good I mean , you have to learn how to do what you are doing naturally in the best way possible . |
| 21 | I was sure they could hardly wait , but then to be fair to Fenella she was the only woman under fifty I knew in London who made her own damson jam . |
| 22 | ‘ But instead of being delighted with the result he complained to us about the beer . |
| 23 | They have roughly the same diameter down their whole length , but instead of being straight they have many short undulations , making them appear crimped or crinkled when viewed under a magnifying lens . |
| 24 | There , she was high up above the woods , but instead of being able to see all that was going on below for miles around , as she had expected , all she could see was — leaves ! |
| 25 | These are quite common , but instead of being featureless , uninteresting ‘ lumps ’ , they are highly distinctive natural glasses . |
| 26 | This is just one example of many which encourages all of us to think about the past or the future — but never to be aware of the present . |