Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] but [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But problems could arise if an exchange adopted a rule at board level but failed to publish it , or if a member joined the exchange after rules bulletins 1 – 50 had been issued , was not then supplied with those bulletins by the exchange , and such bulletins were not readily available on request . |
| 2 | Juhan et al ( 1982 ) also studied the effect of glycaemic normalisation by the artificial pancreas on platelet function but employed other techniques . |
| 3 | Such degrees are attractive to a student who wishes to study the law at university level but wishes also to develop his or her knowledge of another discipline . |
| 4 | Another group who will lose out will be those on low incomes who are ineligible for income support but qualify for housing benefit . |
| 5 | The client was not able to sign a green form to obtain advice as she was not in receipt of income support but has been advised to make a claim for income support since she is not receiving the maintenance . |
| 6 | Donated by a kind benefactor at some stage and affectionately known as " the old bomb " , it always seemed to get them to country open airs and cottage meetings but took exception to a trip to Sydney for a Congress . |
| 7 | The control subjects did not receive either placebo or loperamide oxide tablets but underwent an identical series of measurements on one occasion . |
| 8 | The west German state airline Lufthansa had reportedly presented various purchase plans but had faced opposition from the Federal Cartel Office . |
| 9 | In 1991 , for example , Fareed Armaly and Christian Philipp Muller cloned the banal façade of the building and relocated it full scale at the edge of a forest : ‘ Fassade Galerie Nagel 1:1 ’ showed the same , faceless , empty apartment building but joined to a work belonging to Munich art dealer , Hanns Daxer and his wife ( to which ‘ Fassade ’ now also belongs ) . |
| 10 | Bonfires are more likely to cause a nuisance during daytime hours but to limit burning to for example one hour before sunrise and one hour after sunset could lead to objections from fire prevention officers . |
| 11 | To reduce the desire for formal negotiating sessions but to remove suspicions that workers in the American South are being treated as low-cost , both the American plants tie wages to national car-industry levels , taking an average of pay at American and other car makers . |
| 12 | It is quite likely that you not only have no experience of regression therapy but have never even been hypnotized before . |
| 13 | However , we do not favour a recurring blanket review but propose that all new minerals permissions , as well as existing ones following initial review , should include conditions specifying the timing and content of subsequent reviews . |
| 14 | The hon. Gentleman supports high spending and progressive teaching methods but seems indifferent to the results , which he does not want to give the public in any comprehensible form . |
| 15 | Er but the major capitol programme but has not yet been included arrows , E |
| 16 | Royal aides described her as being ‘ on good form ’ at the lunch and reception before the Garter ceremony but said at her age she decided it could be tiring to attend . |
| 17 | Charlie no longer played rhythm guitar but stood clutching a mike stand at the edge of the stage , howling at the kids , who pogoed like road drills , and spat and lobbed bottles until the stage was littered with broken glass . |
| 18 | The court ruled that Minnick 's confession , taken without a lawyer present but following several consultations between the prisoner and his attorney , had violated the defendant 's Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination . |
| 19 | Despite the policy commitment to developmental work in Nottinghamshire social services department , the CMHTs were under great pressure to take on a normal casework function even in advance of developing needed services : health service priorities favoured immediate casework support ; area teams in the social services department hoped to off-load casework with mentally handicapped people — not least to focus more fully on work with children and families ; and the social workers recruited to the CMHTs were confident in their casework skills but needed to adopt new roles , skills , and ways of working if development work was to become a reality . |
| 20 | The belt tension tends to increase the boom damage but makes for easier repairs . |
| 21 | The court heard that while on bail Hart , who was also banned from driving for four and a half years , was caught behind the wheel in a pub car park but refused to take breath tests . |
| 22 | Near-surface carbonate cements also occur in quartzose sandstones but do not , however , form so readily on quartz grains ( Fig. 5.30b , c ) . |
| 23 | To be really inventive you could knit the bodice to the yoke in cable and stocking stitch strips but have the sleeves and yoke all in one from cuff to cuff in the same pattern , so that the cables run across the yoke sideways . |
| 24 | Classical Eleusis , then , though only a deme of Attica , behaves something like a hellenistic polis , with amour propre but curtailed freedom . |
| 25 | Among such part-timers were a few public-school boys playing at being football fans but failing really to understand what it was all about . |
| 26 | Six of them — Bevercotes , Clipstone , Easington , Rossington , Shirebrook and Westoe — are to be mothballed on a care and maintenance programme but producing no coal . |
| 27 | Yesterday 's ballot was widely seen as a test of strength for Mr Meciar , whose hand-picked candidate last month outpolled his opposition rival but failed to garner the required three fifths majority in the 150-seat house in two rounds of voting last month . |
| 28 | He felt automatically for the light switch but did not turn it on . |
| 29 | I attended the launch of the Wearfit Club but did so in order to discover what the circus was all about . |
| 30 | The boy gave a neck bow but offered neither hand nor eye to Theodora . |