Example sentences of "but [verb] [prep] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attention was focused instead on a witch-hunt of an isolated French communist party articulating working class demands but marginalised by dead-end sectarian politics . |
| 2 | By reporting the character ’ s thoughts in the third person , past tense , as in traditional narrative , but keeping to vocabulary appropriate to the character , and omitting some or all of the tags that normally introduce reported speech ( like ‘ he thought ’ , ‘ she wondered ’ , etc. ) an effect of intimate access to the character 's inner self is produced , without relinquishing the task of narrating to the character entirely , as in the pseudo-autobiography or interior monologue . |
| 3 | The answer is not to fall back on the offensive utilisation of a harmless birthday , but to write into constitutions strict regulations about terms of appointment . |
| 4 | She had gone to bed early thinking of the luxury of a long night 's rest but woke from sleep unwell . |
| 5 | As a result their eyes have almost disappeared , but guided by sound alone they effortlessly catch their food . |
| 6 | It already makes black and white displays in the US , but demand for notebook personal computers with colour displays is growing , and Sharp says it would rather make these locally than export them from Japan , where they are still subject to perverse US anti-dumping duties . |
| 7 | Here again , allow one-sixth to one-eighth of the overall curtain length , but bear in mind individual window shapes . |
| 8 | Giulio Andreotti resigned as Prime Minister on March 29 , but continued as caretaker Prime Minister while members of the five-party ruling coalition negotiated over its future . |