Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] but be [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fred Dawes played as club captain in every League match of 1936–37 but was badly hampered by injuries in 1937–38 when he was limited to just 15 appearances . |
| 2 | She was advised to ‘ keep a low profile ’ in future but was never reprimanded for her conduct . |
| 3 | The Leviathan was launched in Hamburg in 1913 but was subsequently sent to the United States as part of the First World War reparations , and eventually reached the ship-breaker 's yard in Rosyth in 1983 . |
| 4 | Likewise , in that same world , where financial probity may not be widespread in general but is strictly enforced within the sport , Copersucar 's interminable financial difficulties , its frequently delayed payments , its general insecurity and inability to meet its commitments , took their toll of most people 's tolerance . |
| 5 | This is similar to ‘ Futility ’ in the sense that Owen uses personal experience to get his message across but his is not so much about the pointlessness of war in general but is more focused on the individual soldier and the difference between death on the battlefield and death in your own town . |
| 6 | The Cathedral at Wroclaw was heavily damaged in 1945 but is now reconstructed , apart from the western spires . |
| 7 | A similar invitation was issued by former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev in 1989 but was never taken up . |
| 8 | A previous request for a pelican crossing was approved in 1988 but was never implemented . |
| 9 | Constitutional changes to allow for a multiparty system , one of the MNR 's main demands , had been introduced in 1990 but were apparently disregarded by the rebel movement . |
| 10 | They lay about higgledy-piggledy but were obviously intended to be set up as practice jumps . |
| 11 | If the variometer is fluctuating and reading up on one side of the circle and down a little on the other , the probability is that the glider is not climbing at all but is just drifting further down wind . |
| 12 | In the US , the protected class includes a person whose disability represents no handicap to employment but is treated by employers as if it did ; or whose disability is a handicap to employment but only as a result of the attitudes of others towards it ; or who has no disability at all but is erroneously treated by employers as disabled . |
| 13 | The patient improved at first but is now slipping back and a different set of symptoms has appeared . |
| 14 | Most recently , the MX television , which sits unobtrusively on the floor tilting back and forth behind a smoked-glass screen , appeared outlandish at first but was quickly copied by the big manufacturers . |