Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] but [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bouch can not vouch for this but suggests the number of visitors might have exceeded the available accommodation which in turn put prices up . |
| 2 | The father of a friend of mine who went to visit relatives in Paris told us that he did not know a word of French but spoke the Parmigiano dialect all the time and got on very well . |
| 3 | The argument from analogy concedes the first half of this but denies the second , claiming that we have at least some evidence to the contrary . |
| 4 | The leader may also do a lot of listening but have the qualities , lacking in the others , of putting what he hears into an initiative . |
| 5 | This is because they are able to attract a wide range of able , graduate-level entrants ; they expect to ( and do ) lose a significant number of those but have the ability to retain the ones that they see as candidates to fill their senior management positions . |
| 6 | Lotus sees Improv coexisting with 1-2-3 but serving the needs of users who are in the no-man 's land between spreadsheets and financial modelling . |
| 7 | The Law Society holds hearings in private but allows the defendant the right to opt for a public hearing if he or she so wishes ( the prosecution also has the right , but only in public interest cases ) . |
| 8 | His son , Jean-Claude , inherited the office in 1971 but fled the country in February 1986 after a period of prolonged popular unrest . |
| 9 | She estimated what the size of the labour force in the United States would have been in 1960 by making two assumptions : ( a ) if death rates had not declined since 1900 , the labour force would have been over 13 million less in 1960 ; ( b ) if death rates had declined from 1900–1920 but remained the same level after that , the labour force would have been 6 million smaller in 1960 . |
| 10 | The headmaster , former Danish Politician Tom Hoyem , says he 's passionately opposed to smoking but feels the issue is not being confronted by banning it . |
| 11 | Davis swept to 3-0 but missed the easiest of blues on the brink of 4-0 . |
| 12 | Davis swept to 3-0 but missed the easiest of blues on the brink of 4-0 . |
| 13 | The bomb , whose ‘ clean ’ radiation could kill humans without harming buildings , was morally repulsive to many but seemed the ideal weapon to use against the Warsaw Pact 's armoury of tanks . |