Example sentences of "[noun prp] but [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian Durrant , whose midfield creativity will be crucial , appeared briefly as a substitute against Switzerland and Portugal but wins a starting role for the first time since being seriously injured four years ago . |
| 2 | Thomson 's free kick Pearce gets it clear and then won back by Hill but has only gone back to the Forest skipper . |
| 3 | ‘ This is not about beauty or trying to appear younger , ’ says the artist whose first name is Mireille but wants to be known only as Orlan . |
| 4 | This problem has been faced by researchers in the United States but has been largely ignored in the United Kingdom . |
| 5 | L M Ericsson Telefon AB is to buy the remaining 28% equity it does not already own in its Teleindustria Ericsson SA in Mexico but does not say how much it is offering : the shares are held by Mexican and foreign institutional investors , as well as by individual minorities . |
| 6 | Spurs ’ defender Neil Ruddock never played with Gazza but has lined up against him and he said : ‘ I 've only played against him once and I could n't get near him . |
| 7 | He describes how he is not invited to a ball at Harrington but waits in the terrace garden to see ‘ Maud ’ afterwards : |
| 8 | Mr McKillen , who has offered a £100 reward to help trace the donkey , has not ruled out the possibility that a jealous rival owner may have taken Toby but fears he could already be dead . |
| 9 | Feb. 15 Iraq announces that it will withdraw from Kuwait but sets conditions . |
| 10 | Neil Edwards , the 27-year-old Harlequins lock forward who broke his nose and had stitches inserted in a gashed lip in the 1810 win over the Irish , did not play for his club on Saturday but hopes to be fit to face Bristol this weekend . |
| 11 | Britain is due to have four submarines armed with the new Tridents but has been worried that recent votes in the Senate to cut funding for production of the missile could delay delivery of the weapons , scheduled to start next year , to the Royal Navy . |
| 12 | Rabina Ali , who 's twenty one , was born in Pakistan but has a British passport . |
| 13 | Skinner , 31 , who began his career with Blaydon , has decided to leave Harlequins in May but intends to play a season for Blackheath before hanging up his boots . |
| 14 | Glenn , who has one daughter and two grand-daughters , said he was very impressed with the NHS but thinks his was a case of being in the right place at the right time . |
| 15 | As yet he has no plans to leave GMTV but acknowledges that the frenetic pace is hard going . |
| 16 | Weaver and tapestry worked Ingrid Parker lives in Devon but sells her work mainly in America and has recently completed a tapestry for a church in Austria . |
| 17 | Worcestershire have signed James Brinkley , 17 , an allrounder who was born in England but has lived in Australia since the age of two . |
| 18 | Evening Primrose Oil ( e.g. Efamol ) is helpful for PMT but does not contain any vitamins or minerals . |
| 19 | Nottingham Forest 's new manager Frank Clark is demanding £5m for Keane but says Blackburn have only offered £3.5m . |
| 20 | ft , which makes Cramlington one of the major peripheral retail developments in Tyneside but does not produce the kind of balanced traditional shopping centre originally intended . |
| 21 | Lithuania is dependent for its oil supplies on Russia but has been plunged into the same economic crisis as its neighbour by the collapse of the communist system . |
| 22 | Ms Boswell , who was born in Ireland but stays on the move , is a veteran of exhibitions and just one of the many attractions on offer . |
| 23 | The Perth professional , whose father engraves the winner 's name on the Open Championship Trophy , earned the 37th card on his 11th visit to the PGA School in November but has missed two cuts and finished 66th on his three previous Tour outings this year . |
| 24 | Charlton recalls Aston Villa 's Paul McGrath but has also opted for Middlesbrough 's Alan Kernaghan , who wins only his fifth cap . |
| 25 | He rejoined Birmingham as No 2 to Terry Cooper but has always wanted a top job of his own . |
| 26 | He got a hundred against Cambridge but has already discovered that sequels come hard . |
| 27 | And they do a 30 second version of ‘ Smells Like Teen Spirit ’ that was funny at Reading but betrays a shortage of new jokes . |
| 28 | A CHARITY has been asked to help furnish a church in a Croatian village which was damaged in the war with the Serbs but has been painstakingly rebuilt by the villagers . |
| 29 | Physically , it looks similar to the Data Discman but weighs about 850 g without the battery . |
| 30 | This player incorporates most of the features of the DD-10 but has no keyboard or screen . |