Example sentences of "[adj] but [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm printed in the official copy for this but left off this copy were the names , also the Reverend of Glangothwyn and the Reverend Victor of Hamwell Erm does anybody else wish to make any comments on the minutes of . |
| 2 | He failed to achieve this but remained in the country with his friend John Bell . |
| 3 | The Minster at Mittelzell is the chief church , built first just after 800 but added to and altered a number of times since ( 257 ) . |
| 4 | He was then expelled from the party on June 30 but readmitted on July 4 and at a party congress on July 7 was re-elected as party leader by 373 votes to 179 . |
| 5 | He did n't wait for her to argue further but turned on his heel and disappeared . |
| 6 | A community bureau on a council estate will be favoured by some but rejected by others on the grounds of lack of anonymity . |
| 7 | Andy is a street-wise ex-cop , with a blunt , no-nonsense approach that is offensive to some but appreciated by many . |
| 8 | The pattern of inheritance of this simple characteristic led the Moravian monk , Gregor Mendel , to one of the greatest insights in biology — character traits were not blended during passage from one generation to another but inherited as separate factors , later called genes . |
| 9 | First , the agreement that risk should pass independently from property was not express but inferred by the court from the circumstances of the case . |
| 10 | Coulommiers is a small Brie , eaten very young when the surface mould is only just starting to appear , and Fongeru is similar but ripened in fronds of bracken and very difficult to obtain . |
| 11 | Further economic adjustments were announced on Dec. 10 but faced with the continuing collapse of the austral Rapanelli resigned as Economy Minister on Dec. 15 and was replaced by González [ see p. 37118 ] . |
| 12 | His tone was barely sarcastic but hinted at enough to have Ruth wary again . |
| 13 | Suffolk BMA representative David Meldrum welcomed any leaflets explaining when night calls are appropriate but warned against written material or a penalty system that would discourage patients from calling their doctor . |
| 14 | Shops opened in Stockton at the turn of the century and in Redcar in 1924 but closed in the 1960's due to a fall in demand . |
| 15 | Interest in the use of hypnosis as an anaesthetic developed in the early 1800s but declined after the discovery of ether . |
| 16 | However all these composers are overshadowed in historical importance by a Flemish master of all-round achievement , Adrian Willaert ( c. 1490–1562 ) , pupil of Mouton in Paris , who served the court of Ferrara for several years from 1522 but went to Venice as magister cappellae at St. Mark 's in 1527 and spent the rest of his life there . |
| 17 | Ltd. but returned in 1903 to take up an appointment as chief chemist in their Salamander works in Riga . |
| 18 | Israel did not want Sinai as such but insisted on the military security of its southern borders . |
| 19 | A hushed audience listened to quality singing star Joan Regan , who seemed at first a little nervous but relaxed with what must be one of her own favourites , May You Always . |
| 20 | His order was reversed by the Court of Appeal [ 1989 ] S.T.C. 463 but restored on appeal to this House [ 1990 ] 1 W.L.R. 1400 . |
| 21 | They were equivalent to 0.57 per cent of an individual 's income in 1975 but fell to 0.35 and 0.4 per cent in the early 1980s . |
| 22 | Tabitha spent a valuable minute dragging out from under a heap something that looked promising but proved to be a caustic diffraction coil . |
| 23 | She ran up the stairs to go to the toilet to be sick but collapsed on the landing . |
| 24 | The terrified farmboy , Thomas , miserably seasick but comforted by being set to tend sheep , calves and poultry in the depths of the ship , is protected so far as it is possible by the sturdy Jesse , but both are subject to the appalling cruelty of the captain , Daniel Swift . |
| 25 | The only pawnbroker in Salisbury operated at No. 21 but closed in 1918 . |
| 26 | Duty on spirits was unchanged but rose by 5 per cent on other alcoholic drinks , putting 5.5p on a bottle of wine and 1.5p on the price of a pint of beer . |
| 27 | Duty on spirits was unchanged but rose by 5 per cent on other alcoholic drinks , putting 5.5p on a bottle of wine and 1.5p on the price of a pint of beer . |
| 28 | Free produce , like antislavery generally , received some publicity from the visit of Mrs Stowe and her husband in 1853 but ebbed in popularity when the Richardsons of Newcastle who had been prime propagandists for the movement had to withdraw in 1854 . |
| 29 | Are any of these calamities which need not have occurred , or where they all acts which were very unfortunate but occurred with basically goodwill all round as it were ? |
| 30 | Not that he anticipated great trouble — most of the fell people were there to entertain themselves in ways which might appear rough and sound loud but came from characters largely tolerant , polite , gentle , qualities widely commented on , coming from the ease of great and graceful physical strength , the pacific , solitudinous nature of the daily lives , and a long experience of continuing community . |