Example sentences of "but [verb] and [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The League had little alternative but to disband and thus allow its members to continue their campaign within the Labour Party as individuals . |
| 2 | These difficulties often occur following a stroke , leaving the capacity to understand less damaged , but speaking and sometimes reading impaired . |
| 3 | They were on top but strolling and even the return of Dublin striker Roddie Collins from suspension and the subs bench in the 62nd minute for Derek Carroll did n't produce the expected extra fireworks . |
| 4 | The Fowlers then appealed to the High Court but lost and earlier this week the council approved a further plan involving the farmhouse as well as the farm . |
| 5 | This seems very improbable , though it would have been consistent with his character to reject an organized challenge to the social order but to appreciate and even think of emulating and thereby vanquishing a personal one . |
| 6 | But try and always end on a positive note . |
| 7 | On another occasion he bravely went on to the roof to assess the wind damage to his television aerial but slipped and just managed to save himself by clinging to the guttering — not however , before dislodging a slate which bulleted downward and sliced its way effortlessly into the bonnet of his neighbour 's brand new car to form a kind of dorsal fin . |
| 8 | The present head office was built in 1806 but extended and much altered in 1870 . |
| 9 | For a good part of the 1980s , GM languished in the doldrums — burdened by a a top-heavy bureaucracy , losing market share to Japanese and domestic rivals , and saddled with a reputation as the biggest but highest-cost and least efficient US car maker . |