Example sentences of "but [verb] with [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A rhetorical question , but asked with deep feeling . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Ancient Egypt has been called the infancy of the soul , but coupled with that innocence is the terrible knowledge of death . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In 1976 , the centenary of the event , Mr Alan Spedding , the present organist and choir master , thought it might be time to call a halt but met with such opposition from the townspeople that it was decided to carry on . |
| 8 | Some lawyers in the Soviet Union advocated the adoption of the Western principle that the accused is presumed innocent until proved guilty , but met with little success until the Gorbachev period . |
| 9 | Last year I set out on the same quest , but met with little success . |
| 10 | Charles told Jacqui the new information he 'd gleaned , but met with little luck in following it up . |
| 11 | To eliminate multiple aircraft flights on the heavier routes FEC applied to the CAB to operate DC-9-15s , but met with tremendous opposition and their application was rejected . |
| 12 | The use of skeleton arguments has been popular with the Court of Appeal , but met with some resistance from some members of the Bar ( Blom-Cooper , 1984 ) . |
| 13 | THE assumption that information is stored in the brain as changes in synaptic efficiency emerged about a century ago following the demonstration by Cajal that networks of neurons are not in cytoplasmic continuity but communicate with each other at the specialized junctions which Sherrington called synapses . |
| 14 | There he sat in his writer 's hotel room , venturing out into a series of tight corners , filing his copy , then leaving for Warsaw to compose his short books — objects physically slight but charged with these confusions . |
| 15 | Such an ideal does not stand isolated from the practices which strive towards it but interacts with those practices , helps to construct them , and is in turn constructed by them . |
| 16 | He has the advantage of having devised a series of self-contained but effectively linked novels , full of properly casual back-references , in which he can show his hero changing with circumstances from the exuberance of a young lieutenant , to whom personal courage , seamanlike skills and informed opportunism have brought reputation and wealth , to a middle-aged man still exuberant but oppressed with financial cares and by the continual malice of personal enemies . |
| 17 | They disagree with the Marxist view that women 's oppression stems ultimately from capitalism , but disagree with each other in what they see as the basis of women 's oppression . |
| 18 | Observations show that events are not isolated but interact with each other , often producing a complex situation . |
| 19 | Dishonesty is also brought out in this scene , when the Duke expects Shylock to forgive Antonio in line 23 ‘ which is a pound of this poor merchant 's flesh , thou wilt not only loose the forfeiture , but touch with human gentleness and love , Forgive a moiety of the principal ; ’ . |
| 20 | It was the full Wagner orchestra , with full sonority , but played with real subtlety and the full range of dynamic levels . |
| 21 | The MainLan cards in the What Personal Computer system had both types of Ethernet sockets , but came with thin Ethernet cables , so that 's what we used . |
| 22 | He did n't really believe it , all the time he was being dragged through near-empty streets which were no longer silent , but filled with curious brawls , or outbursts of squealing or , what he had just heard , the sound of terrified retching . |
| 23 | Miss B : ( Thinks , ‘ Inquisitive old so-and-so ’ — but says with charming smile : ) Of course I do n't mind , but that 's something I do n't discuss . |
| 24 | Woe unto them , say I , who do not seek to improve themselves but cling with misplaced loyalty to the speech of their parents , as they do to the homes they were born into . |
| 25 | But living with another woman — it 's like saying you can do without men altogether . ’ |
| 26 | The charter covers not only salaries , a minimum wage and maternity benefit but deals with many issues . |
| 27 | Without the gun but armed with suitable words , symbols or grimaces , a pointing gesture can be intimidating to the recipient . |
| 28 | Not squalls yet , but armed with sufficient force to drift Golden Girl to the length of her anchor warp , and there was a change to the sound of the swell on the reef , a growing harshness . |
| 29 | Recalling the hybridisation and agit-pop of the early '80s , but infused with '90s spirit , ‘ Revolution Of Thought ’ has been remixed into space-dub shape by underrated twiddlers Llwybr Llaethog . |
| 30 | It is notable that , on the final French campaign of 1449–50 , carefully and confidently organised by the king , and carried out by a much-reformed army , the majority of fortified places did not resist , preferring to open their gates to the side which not only controlled more firepower but claimed with greater vigour to represent legitimate and effective rule . |