Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] but [pers pn] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Witnesses were uncertain if the bus was in the middle or the inside lane but it was doing about 63 miles an hour when a Nissan car , driven by 74 year old Malcolm Austin , crashed into the front . |
| 2 | He was disappointed not to be accepted into the Methodist Ministry but he was welcomed by the Anglican Church . |
| 3 | We have semi-skimmed milk but I 'm thinking of switching to skimmed milk because my husband Chris is trying to cut down on fat . |
| 4 | One must wait to see if satellite selling proves a commercial success but it is reassuring to find are auctioneers prepared to consider new ways of offering a comprehensive sales service to their farmer clients . |
| 5 | I mean , the difference is , I think , that if you , if the letter comes from the liaison point then the letter wo n't necessarily be signed by the authorised researcher but we 're saying a copy of the letter is signed by the authorised researcher and put in the file . |
| 6 | Chalmers had been forced to miss the Sunday practice on account of a bruised right thigh but he was given the all clear after yesterday 's training to renew rivalries with the Welsh — the country against whom he was first capped four years ago . |
| 7 | The activities of Whips are a mystery to most people outside Parliament but it is known that they do occasionally cajole , threaten and even bully MPs who might not toe the party line . |
| 8 | Such legislation was a response to liberal humanitarianism but it was made possible by the inevitable tendency of industrial processes to require more skilled labour . |
| 9 | This looked like a very male occasion but she was greeted with smiles and urged indoors where Felipe found a seat for her after she had chosen her snack from the plates on the counter . |
| 10 | This does not replicate the monolithic vision of the Early Church but it is characterized by the same overall patterns . |
| 11 | It 's a serious operation but she 's recovering well . |
| 12 | CRYSTAL PALACE may be struggling to keep in step with the rest of the Premier League but they were named yesterday as models of military efficency . |
| 13 | The original meaning , as defined by Collins , has certainly taken a mean whipping before re-release into this streetwise prose but we 're talking the same thing here , are n't we ? |
| 14 | It 's been a hard struggle but we 're getting through , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Sorry it was another long hard meeting but we are making good progress and I think by the end of our next one when we 've revised most of the procedures we 'll be well placed . |
| 16 | DOS 3.3 had been installed on the hard disk but I was using a DOS 2.11 floppy ( supplied with the machine ) in drive A. Ctrl+Alt+Delete would n't work and the reset button booted the machine into drive A. |
| 17 | This was rare in Jewish custom but it was demanded in the Passover celebration ( Mark 14:22 ; Matt. |
| 18 | Chambers added a penalty goal for Banbridge after 15 minutes but Bangor were now well in control and Jeffrey McMaster almost got his name on the score sheet following a run down the left wing but he was stopped short and hooker Darryl Flanagan was up quickly for the try which Strutt converted . |
| 19 | The Police have received some unfair criticism but they are doing a good job . |
| 20 | We will of course be in the middle of a natural seasonal shortage but I am advising finishers that they can not afford to ignore current prices and I think that a reasonable flow of cattle will still come forward , ’ he said . |
| 21 | It was a lovely looking rabbit but it was wasting its time all cooped up in that cage ! ’ |
| 22 | It 's only a little thing but it 's shows you how everything 's changed |
| 23 | all that off her own back y'know , only a little thing but she 's doing that as well |
| 24 | I do n't , I honestly do n't know what the answer is with the National Health but it 's going to take years and years and years . |
| 25 | Their spectacular growth was partly due to natural increase but it was fuelled by immigration from the countryside , particularly after the railways had ushered in an era of cheap mass travel . |
| 26 | This task was made especially difficult because Coleridge was a voluminous reader but he was aided by the fact that almost everything that Coleridge had read was recorded in a notebook . |
| 27 | He described it as the ‘ old ’ fell race but it was started a few hundred years after the feast originated . |
| 28 | It may be a one-woman play but it is peopled by many other characters in Shirley 's life , from the stickin-the-mud husband to the snooty neighbour . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's a great tournament but they are ruining it by making it too tough . |
| 30 | They were art students at the time when art college was the bolthole for all the drug-deranged bongo bashers , paint flingers , crappy experimental film-makers and fanny dancers who thought being a student was a great doss but they were f—ed if they were going to read any books . |