Example sentences of "['s] [noun] but [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | UK Prime Minister John Major also praised Yeltsin 's response but stressed that the UK did not envisage any cuts in plans to deploy the Trident missile . |
| 2 | The last seven years have seen a considerable expansion of the museum 's activities but have been coloured by the drama and eventual scandal surrounding the controversial restoration by Daniel Goldreyer of one of the museum 's principal paintings , Barnet Newman 's monumental ‘ Who 's afraid of red yellow and blue III ’ which had been vandalised in 1986 ( see p.15 ) . |
| 3 | Broom impressed West Ham recently during a week 's trial but said : ‘ I have n't heard anything more . |
| 4 | In many respects they were not deceived by the images of life portrayed in women 's literature but had a very realistic idea of what married life held in store for them . |
| 5 | Three High Court judges sitting as Visitors to Lincoln 's Inn dismissed her appeal against the tribunal 's finding but varied the sentence to one of suspension for five years . |
| 6 | China on Sept. 29 welcomed Bush 's proposals but gave no details of plans for its strategic arsenal of 12 intercontinental and 60 medium-range nuclear missiles . |
| 7 | For a moment it looked as if he was free and would land safely near Tock 's cottage but coming down he fell with a thump into the basket lift at the other side . |
| 8 | Palestinian nationalists remained opposed to Abdallah 's plans but had few alternatives . |
| 9 | Shadow National Heritage spokesman Ann Clywd was also pleased with the Government 's plans but warned they must not put pools staff out of work . |
| 10 | Clark was eager to play in tonight 's Anglo-Italian tie against Leicester at St James 's Park but boss Keegan said : ‘ Lee has run a million miles for us this season . |
| 11 | The students also questioned Yuan Mu about the fate of Zhao Ziyang and the selection of Jiang Zemin as Zhao 's successor but received no answers . |
| 12 | Whittaker says there was a five-month search for Archie Norman 's successor but admits that his and Mulcahy 's knowledge of Kerr-Muir as a former competitor at Tate & Lyle was ‘ quite helpful ’ . |
| 13 | 17 , in which wives became contractually bound in support of their husband 's debts but did not provide any security over their property , stand a little aloof from the principles I have been discussing . |
| 14 | Caroline cut the split ends off Meera 's hair but decided she should keep the length . |
| 15 | Gould accepted the commission for illustrating the volume on birds for Darwin 's Zoology but left before he saw it completed . |
| 16 | Gents match , the Ladies driving from the men 's tees but receiving an extra half stroke benefit ! |
| 17 | We went to the capital , Castries , for the afternoon 's festivities but arrived too late to see the round-the-town mile ( that 's about as far as it is ) . |
| 18 | Joseph took a glass from the officer 's tray but did n't drink ; instead he continued looking in his mother 's direction , ready to smile in sympathy . |
| 19 | They gleamed not only about Mama 's neck but tumbled almost as far as her waist — and could seem all different colours . |
| 20 | McKeever , Suberi and Van Deventer ( 1972 ) replicated Hines 's experiment but found that neither the magnitude nor direction of visual field asymmetry was affected by the presence of a central fixation digit . |
| 21 | The Queen agreed to some of Diana 's demands but insisted that she accompany Charles to Korea . |
| 22 | I eventually retrieved my five pound note that had , luckily , not made it to the duck 's mouth but had got caught on the bank . |
| 23 | Zhorik has also developed an interesting new style : huge sheets with paintings that recall Roy Lichenstein 's pictures but executed in a naïve , ethnic style that could be either Russian or New Guinean . |
| 24 | Milan : Shares rebounded from Friday 's losses but ended below the day 's highs , with the MIB 0.43 per cent higher at 1,169 . |
| 25 | Both dog fox and vixen will dig these out from the stops , never going in at the doe 's entrance but judging the precise overhead position from which to dig down directly to the nest . |
| 26 | She had sensed her sister 's disappointment but realised that nothing could be done about it . |
| 27 | Dyson-Hudson ( 1984 ) has also commented that since c. 1970 the equivalent of $US600 million has been given as development funds to Africa 's rangelands but has brought few rewards as far as more efficient and productive pastoralism is concerned . |
| 28 | Crews from all over the world were competing at Henley this weekend … for women rowers this is the big event of the year … but times are a changing … there 'll be a women 's single sculls at this years main Henley Regatta … they 've been there before in invitation races or coxing in men 's crews but competing in international competition is quite a breakthrough |
| 29 | The court 's inability to determine those matters is not limited to the period pending the visitor 's determination but extends so as to prohibit any subsequent review by the court of the correctness of a decision made by the visitor acting within his jurisdiction and in accordance with the rules of natural justice . |
| 30 | What Lifshitz and Khalatnikov did was to study models of the universe that were roughly like Friedmann 's models but took account of the irregularities and random velocities of galaxies in the real universe . |