Example sentences of "[adj] [n mass] but [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence in the 1990s the user may not gain freedom of interaction with spatial data but become a captive of a particular design and control purpose . |
| 2 | ‘ Wanted sheep but got cow , and it was promised weeks ago , ’ Iris complained . |
| 3 | Neil Clarke said he ‘ deeply regretted ’ the loss of managerial and clerical staff but warned cuts had to be made to save what is left of the beleaguered industry . |
| 4 | ‘ [ I ] t mystifies the real world and deprives us of any understanding of it ’ ; ‘ we become part of the symbolism of the ad world ; not real people but identified in terms of what we consume . ’ |
| 5 | Wilson found it agreeably ‘ refreshing ’ to face a customer not across a football-field-sized desk in a corporate headquarters but bobbing gently up and down in a houseboat on the Regents Canal , or over a pleasant weekend at Branson 's Oxford home . |
| 6 | Fowler had similar basic data but presented in a quite different way . |
| 7 | They are designed not only to keep out black people but to try and intimidate black workers already in Britain and make it harder for them to claim their basic human rights . |
| 8 | I am assuming the £6M will be raised if we carry on in 1988 as we did in 1987 , improving distribution of course and encouraging people but doing nothing to undermine what individuals , churches and committees do already . |
| 9 | The swarming lampreys consume not only dead or sickly fish but set upon otherwise healthy ones . |
| 10 | The name ‘ Shivering Mountain ’ sounds like it should refer to some awesome peak in the Himalayas — in fact it applies to Mam Tor , standing at a modest 1,696ft but offering a first class viewpoint on this fine Derbyshire circuit . |
| 11 | On the whole , such services tend not to serve severely mentally disordered people but to concentrate instead on less seriously dependent people . |
| 12 | The analysis of this subject area should go beyond the use and misuse of mass media but explore the phenomenon in greater depth in its context . |
| 13 | SGB management , seeking the easiest and cheapest methods , decided not to assemble or store new data but to use what was already in the payroll system and manipulate it by means of — initially — a single additional program specially written for the purpose . |
| 14 | Cigarette smokers pollute the air for other people but take no account of this in deciding how much to smoke . |
| 15 | The UK Library Association Code of professional conduct ( 1983 ) does not make separate mention of young people but provides the important principle that ‘ Members ’ primary duty when acting in the capacity of librarian is to their clients ' ( para.2d ) . |
| 16 | Humphrey Wine expressed his personal enthusiasm for acquiring more history and religious works but noted that one major difficulty was the paucity of such paintings in British private collections , which have traditionally been an important source of acquisition for the National Gallery . |
| 17 | A new series but called Grace and Favour at eight . |
| 18 | Prestige comes in the shape of a Mercedes with the 240D or ‘ Stuttgart Taxi ’ , commanding £7,000 but returning unfailing reliability . |