Example sentences of "[adj] but [vb pp] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the standard paradigm the two communicators are seated at a table opposite one another but separated by a screen so as to restrict communication to the verbal channel . |
| 2 | Nigel was disgusted but intrigued by the lengths Eleanor had gone to . |
| 3 | The Polish Republic was proclaimed at the end of December 1989 , thus restoring the formal name which had been adopted after independence in 1918 but replaced by the name Polish People 's Republic in 1947 . |
| 4 | He had seemed puzzled but intrigued by the clogged , uncouth sketches of peasants . |
| 5 | The commission , supposedly independent but appointed by the military government , said that it was investigating various claims of irregularities made against the candidates . |