Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] but [conj] [pron] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must be satisfied that the insured person is legally liable and not just morally liable , i.e. he may feel he is responsible for some damage but unless he has been negligent then no liability exists . |
| 2 | Aristotle said something very interesting in that extract from the Politics which I quoted earlier ; he said that women have a deliberative faculty but that it lacks full authority . |
| 3 | Do you have problems with obesity , he asked the steward on the Desert Wind , the train so called not because of dietary angst but because it crosses the Mojave on the way from LA to Chicago . |
| 4 | The small businessman may not think of himself as being in the same league as the Maxwells and Murdochs of this world but if he produces leaflets , price lists , brochures or any other form of printed material , he has some degree of affinity with them . |
| 5 | She 's probably saying oh this is so boring this conversation but when she gets to our age that 'll be the same . |
| 6 | While Ipswich are one game away from the National League title , Chelmsford are one place away from relegation to the Second Division but when it comes to March 28 the league will seem a million miles away and both sides will have their sights set firmly on a semi-final place . |
| 7 | All your commissions are paid the following week but when it comes to bonuses we we there is a slight delay , two two may be two to three months . |
| 8 | It 's hard work but once she smiles you know it 's all worth while . |
| 9 | Steve Kerton says it 's good to be back racing in this country and he has n't had a brilliant start but if he keeps picking up points might be in with a chance of winning |
| 10 | Steve Kerton says it 's good to be back racing in this country and he has n't had a brilliant start but if he keeps picking up points might be in with a chance of winning |
| 11 | We do not know the immediate solution but if it continues then Malone must go and we think that we could have an excellent player-manager in big Davy Jeffrey . |
| 12 | Cunnilingus is a marginal case but since it involves genital contact and may involve a form of penetration , there is a case for placing it within the more serious category . |
| 13 | The question is not just whether it criticizes the Conservative Party but when it criticizes the Conservative Party . |
| 14 | The worker , at the time , is not able to interrupt the woman to help her with that problem but after she leaves the bureau the adviser feels extremely worried about it . |
| 15 | We agree that the specific algorithm we used wold have been inappropriate if we were interested in examining seasonal or short-term changes in primary production , not because the algorithm does not include a grazing term but because it does not include terms for irradiance and quantum efficiency . |
| 16 | Eventually an old gentleman who had been listening with much amusement to their discussion said that what mattered was not whether the earthworm has an immortal soul but whether it has a purpose . |
| 17 | " The concept of the Labour aristocracy has had its value in drawing attention to differences within the working class but if it implies the existence … of a labour elite distinctly separated from lower strata and marked by political behaviour of an acquiescent type then it is a concept that does more harm than good to historical truth " . |
| 18 | He is an intellectual man but since he has married , a woman who is quite the opposite of him , the reader often notices that he retreats to his library during the course of the book . |
| 19 | It has yet to catch on in the Third World but when it does it could prove extremely useful . |