Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] but [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attention was focused instead on a witch-hunt of an isolated French communist party articulating working class demands but marginalised by dead-end sectarian politics . |
| 2 | mimic each sentence pair but reverse the order |
| 3 | Court carpet schemes ; France seems to have adopted Eastern weaving techniques but ignored their designs , preferring the more naturalistic floral Aubusson and Savonnerie schemes ( p. 85 ) . |
| 4 | The west German state airline Lufthansa had reportedly presented various purchase plans but had faced opposition from the Federal Cartel Office . |
| 5 | Personally , I 'd not have made any heavyweight preparations but avoided giving any clues until the last moment . |
| 6 | He has never seen 4-month-old daughter Jennifer but has written : ‘ I am seeking a reconciliation for all our sakes . ’ |
| 7 | Dictionary look-up methods give impressive error correction but require much greater storage and computation . |
| 8 | Another patient presented with reaccumulated ascites suggesting poor shunt function but died from massive variceal haemorrhage before further assessment could be performed . |
| 9 | They agree that the government gets extra television coverage but argue that such coverage is not necessarily favourable . |
| 10 | ‘ He does n't draw any state benefits but gets any money he can by begging and borrowing and occasionally busking , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Sadler said write-offs related to acquisitions during the fiscal fourth quarter to April 30 will affect fourth quarter profits but declined to say by how much . |
| 12 | Bednota was read very rarely in the villages and hardly ever subscribed to , because , as the peasants themselves recounted , it never printed real peasant articles but presented the countryside as some kind of fairyland . |
| 13 | Spain sets new energy policy but increases greenhouse gases |
| 14 | Meanwhile , shred green leek tops but reserve a 20cm ( 8in ) length . |
| 15 | Each set had identical swing weights but had shafts of different flexibility . |
| 16 | Applications software not only brings extra development costs but needs selling , which means hefty marketing and advertising budgets . |
| 17 | Establish good eye contact but do not stare . |