Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] but [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judge William Hannah adjourned the case for social inquiry reports but said : ‘ I am considering the appropriateness of a recommendation that you should be deported from this country because of your activities . ’ |
| 2 | At the other end of the scale are what can be called ‘ sensitised district health authorities ’ such as Tower Hamlets or South East London Commissioning Agency , where the district health authority retains all the strength of combined purchasing power but seeks to maximise general practitioners ' participation in decisions about what is commissioned . |
| 3 | He had also considered the use of high pressure steam but dismissed it as too dangerous . |
| 4 | If , however , we are unable to resolve any dispute arising out of a complaint than the complaint may be referred to Arbitration under a special scheme devised by arrangement with the Association of British Travel Agents but administered independently by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators . |
| 5 | • Laguna Beach resort , Thailand ( when complete , will include four five-star hotels , golf course , shopping/entertainment complex ) 1000 acre site with six salt water lagoons and three km of beach : originally this highly polluted abandoned tin mine was identified as devoid of all tourism potential but has been turned into a profitable , attractive tourist resort managed to strict environmental criteria . |
| 6 | Currently , the TUC 's regional education programme is shifting steadily in favour of courses even shorter than the ten-day representatives ' courses , not organised coherently as part of a process of recurrent union education but arranged on a more or less ad hoc basis around single issues . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , as I understand it , the individual may be striving towards mature object relations but finds himself in situations where those in authority to whom he may want to relate may cause him to regress towards infantile dependence . |
| 8 | This means that a policy of increasing government spending but maintaining a balanced budget will have a net expansionary effect on the economy . |
| 9 | If the tough edges of ‘ Bizarro ’ are reinforced on subsequent albums , they will find themselves remaining worthy of excessive press coverage but selling fewer records . |
| 10 | As opposed to natural cholera we used a single dose of purified cholera toxin but did not administer Vibrio cholerae , which would produce cholera toxin for several days . |
| 11 | Take , for example , a case in which an employer is considering entering into a contract with a contractor for substantial building work but requires the contractor 's obligations to be supported by a bank or insurance company bond . |
| 12 | The term ‘ partially sighted ’ has been used over the years to refer to pupils who have vision useful for all school tasks but require adaptations to teaching methods and materials in order to accomplish them . |
| 13 | A complicating factor , so often seen in evolution , involves the ‘ cheats ’ , for there are many species with non-nutritious seed appendages but coloured so as to mimic them , e.g. species of Ormosia and Rhynchosia ( Leguminosae ) . |
| 14 | Clare told me he 'd taken rather a lot of convincing — once he 'd determined to do the slightly naff champagne-pyramid stunt in the first place — not to try doing it with proper champagne flutes but to use the perry glasses like everybody else did ; too tall , too unstable otherwise . |
| 15 | The Soviet Union would be allowed 210 bombers , equipped with 12 cruise missiles but counting as eight . |
| 16 | Yet a key theme in discussions of relationships between ministers and their departments has been the extent to which politicians enter with apparent policy commitments but become socialized into roles determined by the permanent administrator and particularly by the need for ‘ policy maintenance ’ within their department . |
| 17 | He declined to make projections about fourth quarter earnings but noted that the US investment community ‘ expects us to be profitable in the fourth quarter . ’ |
| 18 | It is largely because of the work of the Popular Church that campesina women have not been excluded from rural trade unions but encouraged to participate . |
| 19 | for Community law does not exist only in some faraway place but forms part of our national legal system . |
| 20 | The figure shows that the rates of caesarean sections , epidural anaesthesia , and forceps and vacuum extractions went down in some maternity units but increased in most of them . |
| 21 | Public perceptions that the election was increasingly a two-horse race matched trends in published opinion polls but preceded television 's switch towards marginalizing the Alliance by focusing on two-party controversy . |
| 22 | Kikuyu farmers had traditionally farmed several plots which were within easy walking distance but had different characteristics of altitude and soil type . |
| 23 | Births have to be estimated from current birth rates but related to marriage trends . |
| 24 | Working walls have become fashionable in many conference areas but banqueting rooms usually aim for elegance . |
| 25 | The ELISA technique proved far less sensitive for identification of ulcerative colitis patients in inflammatory bowel disease but showed a higher specificity than did the indirect immunofluorescence assay . |
| 26 | It is more fibrin-selective than human t-PA in experimental animal models but has not yet been tested in man . |
| 27 | The plan seeks in part to reverse centuries of reclamation of low-lying land for agriculture , which has been successful in increasing crop yields but has been accompanied by a deterioration in the natural environment . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It is one of the alkaloids derived from certain plant tissues but synthesized in the Fifties ’ |
| 30 | You may , to put it crudely , want to have your heroine trip over that briar root but have set your story in a desert of soft shifting sand . |