Example sentences of "[noun] but [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he was impressed by the range of stands but wished he was ten years younger because he thought the help on offer was best for younger people . |
| 2 | At one time , the Club went as far as refusing to allow juveniles a reduced entrance price for the London Road terrace but allowed them half price for other areas . |
| 3 | ERA presented all this evidence to Glasgow District Council who finally admitted that there was a problem with the housing stock but said they had not got the money to put things right . |
| 4 | Keegan accepted Newcastle would be looked upon as the weaker side but hoped it would be the springboard to success . |
| 5 | He followed her eyes but found she was only staring at a door . |
| 6 | AN official inquiry confirmed yesterday that French journalists and lawyers had been subjected to telephone tapping under President François Mitterrand but said it had not yet determined who had ordered the bugging . |
| 7 | The funds made available through the Farm and Horticultural Development Scheme will be a sound national investment but does it make sense to embark on a programme with a possibility that perhaps after six years the land might be allocated to forestry ? |
| 8 | The portable screens are designed to fit round the witness box when needed to block the child 's view of the defendant but allow them to see magistrates and lawyers in the case . |
| 9 | Euan Duff , defending , said Blythe , of Vane Terrace , Darlington , had no memory of the theft but accepted he must have done it . |
| 10 | These moral issues , which troubled those who wished to enjoy the company of animals but felt they had to judge them on a set of human values , have caused less concern in recent years . |
| 11 | Lord Diplock in Caldwell [ 1982 ] AC 341 did not overrule Cunningham but distinguished it . |
| 12 | Travis did n't break stride but threw her a steely glare . |
| 13 | The sergeant was sure Nicola 's husband was lying and that the stains were blood but knew he had no evidence to prove it . |
| 14 | Since the downfall of military regimes in South America and elsewhere provide clear evidence that no political structure relying solely on coercion can hope to survive for long , we should not be surprised to find that the most effective form of social control involves attempts not to crush opposition but to stop it arising in the first place : that is , by the control of people 's ideas , rather than of their actions . |
| 15 | She no longer kept them in cages but allowed them the run of the house and garden . |
| 16 | Also on July 19 Adriaan Vlok , then Minister of Law and Order , admitted that the police had provided covert funding to Inkatha but described it as " non-political " . |
| 17 | The plant alkaloid ryanodine opens the channels at low ( nanomolar ) concentrations but closes them at higher doses ( micromolar ) . |
| 18 | He admitted having tried cocaine but said it did not seem to do much for him ; cocaine was in ‘ because the chicks dig it sexually ’ . |
| 19 | The trial of Marion Barry , 54 , Mayor of Washington DC , ended on Aug. 10 when , after eight days of deliberation , the jury convicted him on one count of possessing cocaine but acquitted him on a second charge of possession . |
| 20 | Once back upstairs in the box , he could not leave the mystery alone and his mind conjured up all sorts of solutions but analysing them brought no relief . |
| 21 | I realize you 're a trained psychologist but give me some details . ’ |
| 22 | Prudential 's equities director , Rodney Dennis , uses copious research but complains it is often ‘ more descriptive than analytical ’ . |
| 23 | While you have too much of a good thing , there never seem to be to many cables on a warm sweater but to prevent them becoming overwhelming , they are sometimes improved by crossing each strip over alternatively . |
| 24 | He even landed on the South American continent but thought it was just another island . |
| 25 | However , it is so much woven into the fabric of multimedia , we will not focus on interactivity in itself in this study but allow it to feature implicitly throughout our assessment of multimedia design , technology and application . |
| 26 | Olson adopted a public choice methodology but used it to produce striking anti-pluralist criticisms in the tradition of elite theory . |
| 27 | Raschid who is here today was President and I attended with my own Table Chairman at that time David who not only encouraged me to attend my first A G M but encouraged me to get involved involved in ri in Round Table right from the very onset . |
| 28 | And the fact that the film is not frightened of its sexual aspects but treats them with some taste is another point in its favour . |
| 29 | One might be forgiven for saying that the purpose of all this power , conventional and nuclear , is deterrence : Soviet might is not to be used to strike the enemy but hold him back . |
| 30 | His mother put her hands back on the wheel but threw them off with a scream . |