Example sentences of "[adj] but [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house was seriously damaged by fire in 1879 but rebuilt largely to the original design . |
| 2 | I certainly do not share the view of Charles Plummer nearly a century ago ( when the fate of Napoleon III was still fresh enough to point an implicit moral ) , that Charles the Bald was " a typical Frenchman in many respects , intellectually clever but caring only for the outward pomp and circumstance of empire without the strength of character to grasp and hold the reality of power " . |
| 3 | The script they came up with was trendy and repetitive , rather naive but tuned directly to the youth of the moment . |
| 4 | England were perhaps flattered by the scoreline against the Scots but did well in the second half to get the game moving in the direction that they wanted . |
| 5 | When you find one of these giants embedded in the honey-coloured limestones of central England or the hard blue rocks of Dorset , you might think that such immense creatures could do little but lumber massively along the sea bed . |
| 6 | We 're still married but living apart in the same house , if you see what I mean . |
| 7 | Ophiopristis does seem to be similar in appearance to Ophiologimus H. L. Clark , 1911 but differs mainly in the form of the tentacle pore which is slightly smaller with larger tentacle scales than Ophiologimus . |
| 8 | These were to be administered by the association concerned but financed largely by the government , supplemented in many cases from private sources . |
| 9 | The sketches on pages 108 and 109 demonstrate two popular types , one with a spring-loaded hanger which is retained internally by a split pin anchor , the other with a pull-through which is not spring-loaded but comes right through the tube after releasing a bear squad in any multiple drop . |
| 10 | In broad terms these show Britain riding high in the international league table in the 1950s and 1960s but falling heavily over the 1970s [ Freeman , 1979 ] . |
| 11 | was sad to see the school close but looked forward to the future with a bright outlook on her new life ahead . |