Example sentences of "[adj] but [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our results were not theoretical but based on what people actually choose to do . |
| 2 | She ran up the stairs to go to the toilet to be sick but collapsed on the landing . |
| 3 | This can bring security and peace of mind to those who are ill but living on their own . |
| 4 | But if criteria for inclusion and exclusion are not technical and professional but based on a philosophy about what human beings are , then parental expertise can not be different in kind from that of professional ( unnatural ? ) experts . |
| 5 | Well the answer is yes but of course landing and taking off on a road is one thing , being able to operate is another one because clearly one needs er fuel , weapons , ground crew and the like but landing on a road in itself is is not difficult . |
| 6 | But Nilsson was something of a phenomenon : he was brave , audacious but controlled on the circuit , quiet , affable and engaging off it . |
| 7 | Reasonable but depends on the nature of the Business , the state of the Vendor 's records and the type of claims which could arise — some problems may take longer to come to the surface than others . |
| 8 | What little is known of his early life is cloaked in melodrama and make-believe , but it appears that his family , once prosperous but fallen on hard times in Lear 's early years , sold up and went their separate ways . |
| 9 | Those of you who saved or remember the ‘ CRAP ’ incident with me and some floozy who supported Sheff Utd but got on the list , will recall that I paid Sheff Utd some compliments … in the form of Hodges , pemberton and Bassett . |
| 10 | The policies are not new but based on previous papal actions and inspirations . |
| 11 | The hypothesis that paradoxical pain is caused by abnormal metabolism of morphine is plausible but built on shaky foundations . |
| 12 | Roman work in this field was not original but based on the Greek . |