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Example sentences for "but according"

  • But according to the very well informed author of the Tracts upon the Corn Trade, the average proportion of the corn exported to that consumed at home, is not more than that of one to thirty-one.

  • No society, whether barbarous or civilized, has ever found it convenient to settle the rules of precedency of rank and subordination, according to those invisible qualities; but according to something that is more plain and palpable.

  • Habit had rendered Haller insensible to the odor of putrefying cadavers, but according to Zimmerman the odor of the perspiration of old people, not perceptible to others, was intolerable to him at a distance of ten or twelve paces.

  • In the older times these persons were said to have been nourished by angels or devils; but according to Hammond many cases both of diabolical abstinence from food and of holy fasting exhibited manifest signs of hysteric symptoms.

  • Idioms, or peculiarities of expression, are never to be approved or valued, but according to their convenience, utility, or elegance.

  • Samuel killed Agag against Saul's will, but according to the command of God, 1 Sam.

  • But according to the principle of continuity there must be in the least apparent portion of matter still "a universe of creatures, of souls, of entelechies.

  • When the heart trusts in the divine favor, it cannot seek after the temporal goods of others, nor cleave to money, but according to the Seventh Commandment, will use it with cheerful liberality for the benefit of the neighbor.

  • A man is not reckoned a member of the Church according to his body, but according to his soul, nay, according to his faith.

  • How long this distinguished man survived the practical subversion of his own constitution, we cannot certainly determine; but according to the most probable statement he died during the very next year, at the advanced age of eighty.

  • Yes, according to our poor rules; but according to nature?

  • Yes, according to our poor rules; but according to nature, it is another matter.

  • But according to your account, I said to my man, there are plenty of beggars in the world, and yet I know nobody who is not acquainted with some of the steps of your dance.

  • And I thought, moreover, that at the day of doom, we shall not be doomed to death or life, according to the hectoring spirits of the world, but according to the wisdom and law of the Highest.

  • But according to this notion of liberty, this causative act cannot be free unless it be also caused by a preceding act; and so on ad infinitum.

  • This is to judge them, not according to what they receive, but according to what they receive not, and cannot obtain.

  • This is to deal with them, not according to what they have, but according to what they have not, and what they could not possibly have.

  • According to one account, he formed the islands of Savaii and Upolu by rolling down two stones from the sky; but according to another story he fished them up from the depths of the sea on a fishing-hook.

  • They believed that nobles had souls, which existed after death in Bolotoo, not according to their moral merit, but according to their rank in this world; these had power like that of the original gods, but less in degree.

  • But according to Professor Josiah Whitney there is reason for supposing that man existed in California at a still more remote period.

  • But according to the text as given in Vita dell' Ammiraglio, cap.

  • But according to Wilkinson they stand in a little different order: 1.

  • According to the Jewish religion, man was made in the image of God; but according to the Greek religion the gods were made in the image of men.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "but according" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    but found; but had; but have; but have eternal life; but have everlasting life; but just; but never; but not; but once; but only; but such; but suddenly; but the; but the moment after; but the next instant; but they would not; but when they are; but without; butter and; butter over; buttered tins; buttonhole stitch; curious enough; dramatic action; matters were; moderate degree