Example sentences of "but [vb past] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | not fudged , but agreed in concrete terms on a rather different basis . |
| 2 | Four of these were members of the networks under observation , but lived in neighbouring townships and so were excluded from the quantitative analysis which concerned itself with the known-unknown ratio in specific townships . |
| 3 | He was present at the funeral of Edward VI , but lived in quiet retirement during Mary I 's reign . |
| 4 | ‘ They must have bugged her for the same reason we went to see her : she was somebody unofficial but experienced in underground work — They 'd know they were up against some British group not the CIA . |
| 5 | There are many cheeses that are similar to Brie and Camembert but produced in different shapes or sold at differing stages of ripeness. all are referred to as surface-ripened , containing bacteria on their developing white rinds . |
| 6 | Due to the high cost of operating a high powered aircraft like the Firefly ( this was during the mid-1960s , before ‘ warbirds ’ were commonplace ) , the aircraft was reluctantly grounded , but maintained in good order . |
| 7 | The last flight will be made from RAF Waddington to its new resting place at Bruntingthorpe next Tuesday , where the aircraft will be grounded but maintained in operational condition . |
| 8 | It may enjoy support not widely dispersed , but concentrated in certain constituencies . |
| 9 | The final stage in the exercise would be to ensure that whatever resources were made available , they were not dissipated , but concentrated in special units . |
| 10 | In 1357 the clerical author of the short De miserabili statu regni Francie , reflecting upon the disaster of Poitiers , praised the courage of the king , John II , who had fought bravely up to the very moment of his capture , but condemned in strong terms the failure and lack of heart of the nobility , the ‘ duces belli ’ who had failed in their obligation to the French state . |
| 11 | This situation was not merely anticipated but welcomed in certain quarters . |
| 12 | One report says that No. 26 was even more thoroughly rebuilt and re-classified ‘ Type K/2 ’ , ( the writer has seen no photographic evidence , but confirmed in official list ) . |
| 13 | Thus the relationship between hit rate and overall run time is roughly equivalent to hit rate , but stepped in characteristic disk fashion . |
| 14 | CONOR O'DWYER ( Laura 's Beau ) : ‘ He had plenty to do coming onto the racecourse , but finished in great style . |
| 15 | A tongue that left people in no doubt of their responsibilities but delivered in impeccable style , seen by everyone as a proper ‘ gent ’ . |
| 16 | If there are some brute facts , perhaps social , but founded in biological difference , which separate the lives and experience of women from those of men , may these not continue ineluctably to affect the moral ideals they may hold ? |
| 17 | This does not invalidate the earlier comment that a full-track bucket is advantageous , so long as records are randomized to a full track but stored in single-record format on the track . |
| 18 | Mr Al-Kaisy left Iraq in the Sixties , but kept in close contact with his brother Ma'an , and his wife Zhara , now critically ill in hospital . |
| 19 | Cato knew Hellenistic historiographical , agricultural and military theory probably better than any of his Latin contemporaries , but indulged in mock fury against Greek writers and especially against Greek doctors : " iurarunt inter se barbaros necare omnes medicina " ( Plin . |
| 20 | On the one hand , the high rate of government subsidies has benefited individual investors but resulted in considerable losses to the national economy that have done nothing to help Brazil repay its huge international loans . |
| 21 | Baker said that the United States would not recognize Slovenia or Croatia as international subjects , but spoke in favourable terms of the idea of Yugoslavia becoming a loose alliance of states as in the Izetbegovic-Gligorov compromise proposal [ see above ] , and warned , at the end of his visit , of the tragic consequences of Yugoslav instability . |
| 22 | Figures 3.14 and 3.15 show alternative dawgs which represent the same three words but presented in different orders . |
| 23 | He jerked her case upright , tight-lipped , and put it by the door for her , but relaxed in exasperated pity as he watched her start to check her handbag for the third time . |
| 24 | This kind of paper , in use in the 25 years up to 1914 but revived in recent times , also places the EZRA POUND photographs in a time outside the present — suggesting , perhaps a vision of Venice in the time of the " Belle Epoque " when Pound first came to Europe as a young man and revolutionized poetics in the English language . |
| 25 | Most of these cars received hardly any modifications but remained in good condition . |
| 26 | All however show the full development of the idea of high relief : figures given the bodily roundness of statues but grouped in pictorial compositions against the background to which they are attached . |
| 27 | What starts as a kind of confusion between the rules accepted for sculpture in the round and those for drawing , ends with the realisation of a new art-form , sculpture in high relief , with conventions of its own : figures given their full bodily roundness but grouped in two-dimensional compositions against a flat background to which they are attached or , in developed pedimental sculpture , from which they are carved separate as complete statues . |