Example sentences of "but [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was Meh'Lindi 's whole purpose , what was her very life , but to go into perilous places , always to emerge alive ? |
| 2 | And is the old rumour true ; are strings in reality all the same , but stuffed into different packages ? |
| 3 | He went through a schools system which made art compulsory , failing the subject at O-level but passed with flying colours to gain an Alevel in sculpture . |
| 4 | Other families may not have meal-times but eat at erratic times of the day . |
| 5 | Dr Arthur Upton , formerly director of the NCI and now with New York University Medical Center , was gentler , but agreed with many others that the distinction between genotoxic and epigenetic is useless for judging risk to humans . |
| 6 | not fudged , but agreed in concrete terms on a rather different basis . |
| 7 | Kite , the US Open champion , had a seven at the fourth but recovered with six birdies for a 69 , while Norman failed to join Faldo in the lead by missing from 8ft at the 18th for a 71 . |
| 8 | The case of Bishop Zhu Hongsheng , 76 , sentenced to 15 years in prison , was unrelated to the pro-democracy protests but led to international calls that China allow more freedom of worship . |
| 9 | Drug related adverse clinical events were mainly trivia , but led to three patients on cisapride and one on placebo withdrawing from the trial . |
| 10 | The first of these would imply that Scaevola regarded the trust clause as ineffective ; the second that it was effective but limited to legal events which took place before the first will . |
| 11 | So review is not an appeal on the merits of a decision but limited to those grounds . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Local authority spending per se is not included but grants to local authorities and their total capital spending are . |
| 14 | This enquiry is similar to the one above , but refers to those facilities that are jointly used by neighbours over a third person 's property . |
| 15 | My plants are strong and healthy , but suffer from Black Algae . |
| 16 | The TransPennine service , launched a century ago but struggling in recent years , has been turned into one of its flagship operations . |
| 17 | The TransPennine service , launched a century ago but struggling in recent years , has been turned into one of its flagship operations . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Schools that have bought computers approved by the DoI but made by other firms , for instance Sinclair or Research Machines , can not buy adaptors . |
| 20 | There is already a successful lower end of the market selling at under five pounds but competing on equal terms with the more familiar names |
| 21 | What little is known of his early life is cloaked in melodrama and make-believe , but it appears that his family , once prosperous but fallen on hard times in Lear 's early years , sold up and went their separate ways . |
| 22 | The hydrolysates are made up of cow 's milk , cornstarch and other foods , but treated with digestive enzymes ( see p 18 ) so that the milk proteins are partially broken down . |
| 23 | The very principle of social insurance lies not merely threatened but broken by 12 years of abuse by the Government . |
| 24 | The method is to show the number of households which would be found if the headship rate were to be kept constant at the values in each age-group in 1971 , but allowing for actual changes in number of persons within these age groups . |
| 25 | These headings need a minimum fullness of twice the track length and calculations should be treated in the same way as for pinch pleat heading , but allowing for more pleats ( ‘ tubes ’ ) of a smaller size and closer spacing . |
| 26 | Having indicated such links , I shall not discuss each one , but concentrate on particular instances when the themes of savage and city come together . |
| 27 | ‘ It has to do with working out my relationship with my son [ Jack , aged eight , lives in London — Roth and the mother of his child have split up but remain on good terms ] . |
| 28 | He hears the rumbles of discontent — but points to concurrent rises in viewing figures and attendances . |
| 29 | There was a lot of some sort of stone crop , which was pretty enough , but smelled at close quarters rather like cleaning fluid . |
| 30 | But bent at right angles . |