Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] but [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The House of Commons Agriculture Committee put forward 43 recommendations for change but their conclusions suggest strongly that the Committee did not appreciate the severity of the conservation/agriculture conflict in the uplands and the impact of habitat loss . |
| 2 | I think a lot of commentators were surprised when Arsenal paid so much money for Ian but his phenomenal strike-rate for them is probably why transfer prices have gone through the roof . |
| 3 | I 've been trying to get you for ages but your line 's been engaged . ’ |
| 4 | The firm 's main work was producing components for aircraft but my job was to investigate new product areas for the company . |
| 5 | The other four patients had non-functioning gall bladders before and after treatment but their cystic ducts were patent at percutaneous cholecystolithotomy , and it is assumed that they do not respond to the fatty meal stimulus used to test gall bladder emptying . |
| 6 | He was being waltzed around by his captives and he bellowed for help but his colleagues had their own problems . |
| 7 | I know we are playing well and Sunderland are a bag of shite but its a cup match and we seem to be shit at cup matches . |
| 8 | The term ‘ the inner city ’ may tell us much more about the manner in which an agenda of social problems is set by the combined and unequal influences of a variety of interest groups than about the political economy of cities but its very reproduction in a set of discourses about ‘ the urban ’ guarantees it a status of its own . |
| 9 | Their extracellular domains are very like those of cadherin but their cytoplasmic domains differ , being specialised for forming desmosomal plaques and , thereby , attachment to the keratin intermediate filament cytoskeleton rather than to actin . |
| 10 | Hospital care remained a central feature of provision but its role was changed . |
| 11 | 2 days before his death the chaplain expressed concern about F 's suicidal state of mind but his family were assured by staff that he was being properly cared for . |
| 12 | He had no language for his sense of exile but his music , which would not be transmitted . |
| 13 | Figure 2.4 , for 1986 , provides an intricate pattern of data but its outstanding characteristic is a distinction between ‘ core ’ and ‘ periphery ’ in the EC area . |
| 14 | This approach is best suited to the study of small to moderate amounts of data but its merits have probably been exaggerated since even skilled statisticians need minutes rather than seconds to respond sensibly to output from all but the simplest analysis steps . |
| 15 | Her mind ranged over wide vistas of blood but her body took a shower and changed its clothes . |
| 16 | A hospital source said : ‘ He 's lost a lot of blood but his life is not in danger . ’ |
| 17 | Whilst at Abu Sueir I managed to get a great deal of tennis but my rugger was curtailed slightly , I played for a scratch side called the Canal Zone but was not allowed to take part in away matches because of the time I would have to spend away from the course due to travelling . |
| 18 | Arbuckle was acquitted of manslaughter but his career ended overnight , with all his films scrapped . |
| 19 | The state was concerned with the alleviation of poverty but its direct participation in welfare programmes was small ; most of this was left to private charity . |
| 20 | Alain made no sort of sound but his hand tightened to steel and Jenna felt somewhat vindicated . |
| 21 | Znojmo , which is a town listed as an ancient monument , needs a good deal of restoration but its town hall of 1445 still possesses its tall , elegant steeple . |
| 22 | I know that it has only been a couple of weeks but my word , it does seem longer , and so much has happened to you , has n't it ? |
| 23 | Briefly then , what we found in section 4.1 and have summarised here , is that building societies form the largest group of intermediaries but their function is almost exclusively one of channelling funds between surplus and deficit units within the personal sector . |
| 24 | ‘ I know , ’ said Henry , ‘ and I am sorry to bother you at this time of night but my client has given me to understand that this is when you would be available . |
| 25 | These are some of the ways in which we may expect the Spirit of God to illuminate not only the person of God but his will for us . |
| 26 | He was almost tempted to say a prayer of gratitude to the God who had brought him out of Egypt but his contented contemplation was interrupted by the opening of his office door . |
| 27 | Disciplines that use such models , such as demography and statistics , can provide great depth of argument but their scope is inevitably limited . |
| 28 | ‘ He was able to introduce her to a lot of people but her real ambition is to be a movie star , not an actress on the stage . |
| 29 | This argument was accepted by the House of Lords but their lordships refused to allow the plaintiffs to assert their rights under copyright law . |
| 30 | Never an assiduous Bible reader , though while mother was alive she used to read a few verses for her sake , she now began to turn to it more and more in search of enlightenment but her head swam when she tried to read . |