Example sentences of "[art] [noun] but [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The visitors might have replied almost immediately when Mark Stepney rounded the defence but put his shot wide . |
| 2 | Now does that have a er I , I know you lose the income but does it , does it penalize you at all ? |
| 3 | Feminist lesbians reject the ideology but continue the practice , for fat women are excluded from current ‘ acceptable ’ images within the lesbian communities . |
| 4 | Both received praise for the presentation , the colour and the crowds but mixed reviews when it came to the standard of play . |
| 5 | Patrese , having resisted a strong attack from Berger , was now in front with Schumacher third , a few seconds behind the McLaren but pulling slowly away from Brundle , who , despite suffering from increasing oversteer as the fuel load lightened , was comfortably ahead of Jean Alesi 's Ferrari . |
| 6 | Unlike other British sculptors of recent times , however , the materials he works with are not drawn from the junk-heap but tend to be artefacts symbolic of consumer society : cars , television sets and illustrated magazines . |
| 7 | In the one subject ( patient 4 ) from whom routine sections only of large bowel and ileum were available , histological examination showed an inflammatory process predominantly affecting the myenteric plexus particularly in the appendix but extending to the small intestine . |
| 8 | He sent reviews to Record Mirror ( occasionally under the nom-de-plume Sheridan Whitehead ) and the NME but achieved little success . |
| 9 | Union leaders put up 90 per cent of the funding but have played little public part in Labour 's campaign . |
| 10 | You can put down the concrete base and build the kit garage yourself ; lay the base but let the garage manufacturer build it ; or leave everything to him . |
| 11 | Today ex-manager Farrelly claims he is not bitter about the split but says he is annoyed about the things Sinead has said about that period . |
| 12 | It is generally occupied , at any one time , by one person , but it can sometimes be split between two people — a task manager and a task expert , where the manager does not have the expertise but acquires power through the capacity to get the task done . |
| 13 | you know you 'd produced the shirt but produce er , and there would be lots and lots and lots of these people , these very skilled men |
| 14 | The action has nothing specifically to do with the technical content of the programmes but relates to wider difficulties between the Council of Ministers , the Commission and the European Parliament . |
| 15 | Sadly , it failed to smother the flames but travelled on through the window , coming to rest on Mr Singh 's Bentley , causing an estimated £567 worth of damage . |
| 16 | i did know the scorers but Ive forgotten . |
| 17 | The opposition quickly lost four wickets with only eight runs on the board but fading light saved them from defeat . |
| 18 | Position them no closer than 12mm from the edge of the boards , and drive the nails so they just dimple the surface of the board but do n't cut it |
| 19 | I think that would do the trick but preparing handou I mean I was doing those till two , this lot for you this mor I 'm absolutely y'know it 's quite hard work when you 're concurrently teaching all the time . |
| 20 | Mr Keane ( 45 ) was stunned by the blow but managed to beat off his attackers who escaped on foot . |
| 21 | For months , she admitted later , she had faced the possibility of her son being badly injured against such a highly-rated opponent , but now Lennox was not only the winner but emerged with hardly a mark on his body . |
| 22 | Josh Gifford 's gelding , one of last season 's leading novices , travelled like the winner but hit the front too soon at Chepstow last time when runner-up to Freeline Finishing . |
| 23 | Erm yeah I certainly would encourage you down that path Miss Whittaker that if it helps , I do n't know whether you 've got all the documents , but in our our submissions to the county we suggested that if E two has to survive erm and to add the words , sorry , exactly as you started the sentence but finishing that the exceptions were areas of the sites allocated for development in local plans , it would seem to me to make it absolutely clear what the freedom of local interpretation was in the statutory plan process whilst giving the county the the that it wanted on all the other areas of the county . |
| 24 | Some other wasp species , apparently derived from pollinating agaonids , enter through the ostioles but do not carry pollen , though they have pockets ; there are also weevils and moth larvae . |
| 25 | Charles and Diana join the Queen at her 40th anniversary of her accession to the throne but sit apart . |
| 26 | Isabella and Mortimer could scarcely hope to survive long in power : neither had a claim to the throne but ruled in the name of Edward III ; their authority was thus precarious and , given that Edward was in the Plantagenet mould , destined to early extinction . |
| 27 | In the presence of an overt direct object , hide and conceal are cognitive synonyms — John hid the money is equivalent to John concealed the money but hide is not replaceable by conceal in , for instance , Go and hide ! |
| 28 | Now , I 'd mentioned Benjamin to the Ralembergs but told them nothing about his near kinsman , the great cardinal . |
| 29 | This might well be the case but does not by itself establish a logical necessity for legislative omnicompetence for Parliament . |
| 30 | Attorney General Sir Nicholas Lyell took up TODAY 's call to examine the case but has decided against further action . |