Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] but [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The belt tension tends to increase the boom damage but makes for easier repairs . |
| 2 | They 've all read the Magpie column but arrive at differing conclusions . |
| 3 | The foreign secretaries of the two countries did not deal with the political issues in the Kashmir crisis but focused on military confidence-building measures . |
| 4 | In July 1988 , the Minister sent a copy of the report to the Serious Fraud Office but decided against immediate publication , and , following advice from the Director of Fair Trading , did not refer the takeover to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 5 | GTE Corp 's GTE Telecommunication Services and Digital Equipment Corp have joined forces to develop the CloneDetector , a knowledge-based system to reduce clone fraud in the cellular industry : the system will automatically detect simultaneous calls using the same cellular telephone number but originating from multiple locations , or calls originating outside the normal geographic area used for a particular cellular telephone ; it will build a case for each instance of fraudulent use , prioritise the cases , and recommend the actions to be taken . |
| 6 | You see when committees are meeting at two o'clock usually have a much shorter agenda than this committee discussion but to enable to this committee and to do its job properly , I would think we 'd be looking where possible to be able to discuss items properly and to get start at a reasonable time like we do . |
| 7 | The charter covers not only salaries , a minimum wage and maternity benefit but deals with many issues . |
| 8 | Non verbal that 's why I know you think about body language but think of all the times things like that happen where the body language speaks it you know . |
| 9 | This protein binds very poorly to the canonical octamer sequence but binds with high affinity to the TAATGARAT motif and degenerate octamer-TAATGA motifs and also induces DNA bending upon binding to these motifs . |
| 10 | While sleepers were standard BR issue but sliced in half . |
| 11 | Skymaster is a section of Prestel aimed at the aviation community but run by two separate organisations , the Met Office and the Aeronautical Information Service ( AIS ) of the CAA . |
| 12 | Another patient presented with reaccumulated ascites suggesting poor shunt function but died from massive variceal haemorrhage before further assessment could be performed . |
| 13 | Gibbs and de Marzio postulate that the number of available states in the statistical mechanical sense is not constant through the glass transition but reduces to zero at some temperature which , however , may never be reached i an experimentally realizable time . |
| 14 | It is important to note that these authorities remain free to demand more stringent standards of the companies for which they are responsible , but may not do so in respect of those firms trading in the member state but authorised in another member state . |
| 15 | Hamilton was based in the press office but seconded for three months at a time to other departments , including the news room . |
| 16 | Much of the work on parasite biology is focused on the malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum but extends to other species notably nematode parasites of medical and veterinary importance and Theileria annulata , a parasite of cattle . |
| 17 | Mr Whitney-Long 's evidence on this aspect was unsatisfactory : indeed the weight of his evidence in cross-examination was that they did not so rely in any material way but relied on other matters . |
| 18 | The tunes were in a slow waltz time but played with that characteristic thump which accentuates the first beat of the bar so strongly as to obliterate everything else , reducing any melodic line to a tribal dance . |