Example sentences of "and [adj] but [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if criteria for inclusion and exclusion are not technical and professional but based on a philosophy about what human beings are , then parental expertise can not be different in kind from that of professional ( unnatural ? ) experts . |
| 2 | A Liverpool Seamen 's Protection Society claiming 2,800 members was represented at the Trades Union Congresses of 1874 and 1875 but fell under suspicion . |
| 3 | These experiences are not uniquely given and unchanging but vary with the expectations and knowledge of the observer . |
| 4 | Magistrate Caroline Thornton-Berry told him : ‘ To steal is always wrong and despicable but to steal from people who love you is particularly low . ’ |
| 5 | The German conjunctions used to signal this structure ( Einerseits ‘ on the one hand ’ , aber … andererseits ‘ but on the other hand ’ ) are more transparent than the mixture of causal Because and adversative But used in the English text . |
| 6 | Aideen Rogers won her match 5 and 4 and Tracy Eakin got home 2 and 1 but defeat for Eavan Higgins , Power and McCool meant Mary McKenna 's half in the last match could not affect the overall result . |
| 7 | When her coiffure was dry , Martha saw her small oval face framed by curtains of hair that was stiff and immobile but appeared at least to be straight . |
| 8 | Now that okay no problems there , second and third but look at this , he gave the first second and third and they did n't even have a handicap . |
| 9 | It is large and grey and chilly but surrounded by beautiful land . |