Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] but it [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paris may have slipped behind Birmingham in the calendar this year but it hardly seemed to matter . |
| 2 | I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock . |
| 3 | The content varied according to the imagined circumstances but it invariably contained the information that he was a magistrate , an exponent of the martial arts , or someone who had recently been diagnosed as HIV positive and would have no hesitation in biting if attacked . |
| 4 | This may have held great promise in its early years but it soon became divided and then fragmented , due largely , if not wholly to the same age-old misconception whereby the basis of the religion is the assumption of the existence of a completely undefined ‘ god ’ , in this case the ancient ‘ god ’ of the Jews . |
| 5 | ‘ There was nice stuff written during that era but it never saw the light of day . |
| 6 | The Best image gave the group a nostalgic feel but it also provided an earthy , northern glamour . |
| 7 | I do n't know who or what Wide Awake heard during that week but it certainly did n't originate in the Lower Ormeau . |
| 8 | And I felt it was n't up to them , I did n't have enough experience I wanted to gain some more experience but it just fell away , lapse . |
| 9 | Ireland 's defeat of England may have come too late to influence the marginal selections but it certainly highlighted the shortcomings of some of the English players who were subsequently selected . |
| 10 | Boston did not ignite the recombinant-DNA controversy but it vigorously seized the torch and raised it to national and worldwide visibility . |
| 11 | Sea bathing developed in the mid-eighteenth century but it still remained somewhat select until the railway arrived . |
| 12 | In the next 20 years the NHS did not escape criticism from academic Fabians but it never reached the volume and intensity of the criticism which , for example , social security and income maintenance attracted as they appeared to retreat further and further away from the principles of the Beveridge Report . |
| 13 | Lee Marvin 's song ‘ Wand'rin' Star ’ would be unacceptable to most bullfrogs but it still got to number one . |