Example sentences of "[verb] but [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , then your outraged mother leapt into the car which was loaded with our luggage because we intended to be off to Urbino that morning , and apparently she decided on some kind of hara-kiri or felo de se , a consummation of our marriage devoutly to be wished but never performed . |
| 2 | The result was that the Ops inspectors were not only permitted but actually put under pressure to qualify and remain current on at least one large modern public transport aircraft while at the same time flying club and private aircraft as well . |
| 3 | This will certainly be the case if the people concerned at the local level take this view , failing to grasp the strategic role that they have always claimed but often failed to deliver convincingly because of time spent on day-to-day operational matters . |
| 4 | The exam ranged over twelve subjects , the main part of which was purchasing but also included Economics , Statistics , Business Law and Accountancy . |
| 5 | POOR old Neil Webb — forgotten but never forgiven . |
| 6 | Hart was well respected but somewhat feared by his men . |
| 7 | This conflict between tariff reformers and free traders was to lead to the ‘ agreement to differ ’ convention in January 1932 , and the resignation of the Liberals from the government in September 1932 ; but , until they resigned , the National Government was a genuine coalition in the sense in which that term is used on the continent : a government comprising independent yet conflicting elements allied together , a government within which party conflict was not superseded but rather contained — in short , a power-sharing government , albeit a seriously unbalanced one . |
| 8 | A Christian writer , like Rose Macaulay , had a standard for her people ; Miss Compton-Burnett , an intensely moral writer , has the standards of late nineteenth century , upright , liberal and enlightened agnosticism , personally modified but firmly held . |
| 9 | But many of the outputs of governments are themselves public goods , so the problem is not resolved but merely transferred . |
| 10 | Other more drastic proposals were ventilated but never put into practice . |
| 11 | Proposals to replace this path with a motor road have been considered but happily pigeon-holed . |
| 12 | Mr Hicks ' framework is well presented but much travelled by many companies , set on improving the quality of cost information based on sound and robust examples . |
| 13 | In response , Adenauer and Strauss not only had the magazine 's offices searched but also arrested its editor . |
| 14 | Better that it should end like this , when justice was not only done but manifestly seen by all to be done . |
| 15 | The stables were well built but badly ventilated ( surely not be expected in Coleman 's time , for he was the arch-exponent of adequate ventilation ) a duct-blocking luxuriant vine having been trained against the outside wall of some loose boxes . |
| 16 | The design for a separate building housing toilers — block built but externally clad with matchboarding — successfully achieved complete harmony with the H.H. & B.R. construction . |
| 17 | It provided answers to every conceivable question with an assurance and a seemingly impregnable logic which the romantics of the 1940s , the nihilists of the 1860s , and the populists of the 1870s had sought but never found . |
| 18 | He had a full , passionate , childlike mouth , generously shaped but brutally finished ; and his cleanshaven cheeks and jaw were powerful and fleshless , pure , massive bone under the fine , fair skin . |
| 19 | Five other items were prepared but never performed ( The Haunted Man ; The Bastille Prisoner ; Great Expectations ; Mrs Lirriper 's Lodgings ; The Signalman ) . |
| 20 | South African involvement is suspected but never proved . |
| 21 | She lifted the blue-grey towelling from its hook , and sniffed delicately at the material ; it was clean and odourless with no man-animal scent , as if it had been bought and hung but never worn . |
| 22 | It is possible that some were made but later destroyed or stolen . |
| 23 | Providing an assurance to parents that children are not only well fed but properly supervised during the mid-day break adds to the appeal of a school and could well be the deciding factor which finally influences parental choice in sending their child to your school rather than to your neighbour 's . |
| 24 | His title-pages specify that his songs may not only be sung but also played ‘ on all sorts of instruments ’ ( auff allerley Instrumenten zu brauchen ) ; indeed the non-tenor parts are often obviously instrumental , as in Senfl 's ‘ Wol kumpt der May ’ in Ott 's 121 . |
| 25 | In his adult life all these painful thoughts had been buried but still caused a great deal of unhappiness . |
| 26 | The word inferred in the passage is correctly spelt but wrongly used . |
| 27 | A companion work on the French Church was researched but never written , though Bodley published two lectures in 1906 on the separation of Church and State . |
| 28 | THE woods seem but just freed from the horror of primeval sea , if that is not primeval sea washing their bases . |
| 29 | As I approached she began to smile but then stopped and screamed ‘ How can you f … ing live with yourself ? ’ and stormed off . |
| 30 | And after all , Rothesay , so they said , had led Margaret a dog 's life after all her father 's pains to secure him for her , and been by any standard a poor bargain for any girl , having worn out so many before her — including , the bolder gossips whispered , Dunbar 's unhappy daughter , affianced and bedded but never wed . |