Example sentences of "[vb pp] but [pron] [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of them won but they still considered the day a victory . |
| 2 | In doing this I have further controlled the quality of attention to be expected but it still protects the participants because the centre of their attention is away from themselves . |
| 3 | They may have some specific items that are to be bought but they also have a general readiness to look around and be tempted by what they might see . |
| 4 | A great deal of the stepping seems to have been improvised but it also contained the remnants of old dances . |
| 5 | There is also a third form of competition , one which comes neither from the academy , nor from the laity , one by which we are all influenced but which rarely receives the attention it deserves : novelists , journalists , film-makers and dramatists are , at least in part , also professional students of the social world . |
| 6 | Perhaps it was the wine I had drunk but I only gave a short yell before my hair was grabbed and my head jerked violently back . |
| 7 | Spectator sport may have been partially commercialized but it never became a capitalist leisure enterprise . |