Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [adv] [verb] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't know what Scott 's already archived but why they were n't put in boxes away somewhere I 've no idea |
| 2 | In contrast to Iacocca 's blustery persona , Eaton is relatively reserved but , beneath his calm demeanour , it 's clear that there lurks a tough and gritty leader . |
| 3 | The Sheikha was completely veiled but , I knew her eyes would have turned black with distress . |
| 4 | Mr Wright was also arrested but not charged and Mr Attwooll said his involvement was innocent . |
| 5 | A further Ju87R of 8th Staffel was badly hit but got to within ten kilometres of the Sicilian coast before Uffz . |
| 6 | Scotland and Ireland are also represented but the biggest threat to a home win lies with American duo Fred Couples and Davis Love . |
| 7 | Other old shipmates like Phil Andrews , Eddie Clarke and Ron Giles were still crewing but others like Des Ferret , Vic Roberts and Bob Wellock were disappearing up the promotion ladder . |
| 8 | Most of Scotland is still rising but the south-east of England is sinking by 15cm a century . |
| 9 | Pybus was duly sacked but retained as club coach in a refreshment-making capacity . |
| 10 | Denis McCullough is also involved but perhaps Reid , who was successful at the Dundrod meeting as well as Temple and Mid-Antrim , will push on into a useful lead . |
| 11 | Hart was well respected but somewhat feared by his men . |
| 12 | Defries was still kicking but , Ace thought , less strongly . |
| 13 | Greenpeace is newly established but expanding rapidly . |
| 14 | Johnson was highly ranked but had been based in England for a few months under ten years . |
| 15 | The independent Civil Service Department suggested by Fulton was also created but was brought to an end in 1981 . |
| 16 | Willys was instantly denounced but many ardent Royalists , including three of his colleagues in the Knot , refused to accept his guilt . |
| 17 | We now know from Russian eyes , particularly from Khrushchev 's much suspected but surely authentic memoirs , how precarious and nerve-ridden the future looked to the Communist high command when Stalin succumbed to his stroke on 5 March , 1953 . |
| 18 | In the present case the House of Lords found that Hardie & lane v. Chilton was correctly decided but not that a demand for money in lieu of placing on the stop list would be lawful in all circumstances . |
| 19 | By 1950 the dividing line between East and West in Europe was clearly drawn but war on the Continent was unlikely . |
| 20 | As Pizarro , Denis Quilley is suitably grizzled but the character 's ponderous despair seems to have submerged his generalship . |
| 21 | The civil registration G–BGHB was originally allocated but with the vogue for out of sequence personal registrations this was changed to G–DPIT . |
| 22 | Comparisons with pre-Reformation music are also made , and these are bedevilled by Wulstan 's well known but personal and unsubstantiated views on the sounding pitch of Latin music written before C.1558 . |
| 23 | The big regatta dances in the huge grey tent down by the quay in Carrick were just beginning but there were so few days left of the holiday that Maggie preferred to spend them about the house chatting with Rose or her sisters around the fire or talking with Michael out in the front garden among his flowerbeds ; and sometimes during long breaks in the rain they would go out to where Moran was tidying up in the meadows . |
| 24 | The second edition of Molecular Quantum Mechanics by P. W. Atkins is beautifully produced but rather idiosyncratic . |
| 25 | During World War II McLachlan 's laboratory in central London was badly damaged but he moved to various locations , including the Pharmaceutical Society in Bloomsbury Square . |
| 26 | Work in the West Highlands was also proceeding but fewer staff were involved . |
| 27 | Linda Evangelista was brilliantly marketed but there was never quite the attention until she had been established for quite a long time . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ The economy in the U.S. is gradually recovering but economic prospects in the UK and much of the rest of Europe are less encouraging . ’ |
| 29 | The Tchaikovsky was decently played but it lacked the passionate intensity that the score asks for , if not demands . |