Example sentences of "[vb pp] but [adv] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a remedy frequently recommended but less often applied . |
| 2 | Where am I ? — she drifted soft-footed down the corridor to the breakfast room and the balcony she 'd seen but never really looked at . |
| 3 | Lifestyle is a term which is often used but very rarely defined . |
| 4 | Although it is not possible to list here the groups , individuals and parishes who have helped us so far , I wish all to know that not only is their contribution needed but also greatly appreciated . |
| 5 | If you would like to be more ambitious with your finish , try the methods described in the ‘ Encyclopaedia of Cottage , Farm and Villa Architecture and Furniture ’ by J C Loudon , first published in 1833 : ‘ These chairs are painted but more frequently stained with dilute sulphuric acid and logwood ; or by repeatedly washing them over with alum water , which has some tartar in it ; they should afterwards be washed over several times with an extract of Brazil wood . |
| 6 | Third , the worrying suspicion that amongst the evidence already accumulated , the statements taken , the people interviewed , the personal relationships observed , the obiter dicta , the geography of North Oxford — that amongst all these things somewhere there was a fact that he had seen or heard but never fully recognised or understood . |
| 7 | That risk can be carefully investigated and assessed but never truly eliminated . |
| 8 | The problem in today 's computer industry is that a company needs to be not just adequately well run but superbly well run to turn in acceptable numbers : Hewlett-Packard Co , now doing over $16,000m of business has 20,000 fewer employees than Digital Equipment Corp , which is still stuck at around $14,500m . |
| 9 | In Verbivore as a whole , as in its fantastic sub-plot , the oral and the written dimensions of language are opposed but also intimately related . |
| 10 | That the ethics of prevention trials is often a resource driven argument is tacitly assumed but rarely explicitly stated . |
| 11 | Describing the technique is difficult , but its result is obvious : rich and continuous uncertainty , a pattern forever being glimpsed but never quite grasped . |
| 12 | In 1917 the socialist parties , created but no longer dominated by the revolutionary intelligentsia , commanded the support of the vast majority of both workers and peasants . |
| 13 | Though his first wife remains a shadowy and rather pathetic figure about whom one longs to know more , there is plenty here on the crowded , ramshackle household and its often hand-to-mouth existence constructed entirely around the demands of the workaholic , temperamental sculptor — the hoarded treasures , the art and music which pervaded the house , the much loved but somewhat casually raised children , the constantly changing and eccentric cast of live-in models , nannies , general factotums , portrait sitters , studio visitors , plaster moulders , musicians , friends and members of the press who were usually given short shrift . |
| 14 | A parallel trend which has been widely perceived but less well documented is that of increasing numbers of authors per article . |