Example sentences of "[art] [noun] but [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now does that have a er I , I know you lose the income but does it , does it penalize you at all ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Now , I 'd mentioned Benjamin to the Ralembergs but told them nothing about his near kinsman , the great cardinal . |
| 4 | He also includes all the posthumous items in his Etudes symphoniques , scattering them freely through the text but playing them with such improvisatory magic that all sense of interruption or slackened structure is virtually erased . |
| 5 | McGregor , who had been approached by a worried neighbour , admitted making use of the computer but claimed it was on legitimate police business . |
| 6 | Essentially , he expected art , even that of the Avant-garde , not merely to override the present but to ride it . |
| 7 | DEC says this did n't allow it sufficient time to evaluate the proposals but says it supports all such unified Unix efforts and promises to make its position clear this week . |
| 8 | ‘ At first Eadred tried to bluff , claiming Sir John was a local landowner , but then he confessed that Santerre was funding Abbot Bere 's construction of the crypt but told me if I wished to know more , I should ask either Sir John or the abbot . |
| 9 | He really scents the difficulty but thinks it too hard for discussion and so conveniently pretends that he has not seen it . |
| 10 | After pressing for about twenty seconds you remove your hand and , as you do so , you remove the coin but take it upwards so it can not be seen , look at the forehead as if the coin is still there and start everyone counting . |
| 11 | Only " tough love " is helpful , loving the sufferer but allowing him or her to take the full consequences of all actions caused by the disease . |
| 12 | If we printed details of the case it would make her identity too plain to the authorities but suffice it to say that she was detained with some others for celebrating a ‘ banned person ’ — Nelson Mandela . |
| 13 | I thought that was marvellous — not the titles but getting it all listed in five seconds on a screen . |
| 14 | Officials gave no detail of the obstruction but said it was not a fishbone . |
| 15 | One might be forgiven for saying that the purpose of all this power , conventional and nuclear , is deterrence : Soviet might is not to be used to strike the enemy but hold him back . |
| 16 | Euan Duff , defending , said Blythe , of Vane Terrace , Darlington , had no memory of the theft but accepted he must have done it . |
| 17 | The portable screens are designed to fit round the witness box when needed to block the child 's view of the defendant but allow them to see magistrates and lawyers in the case . |
| 18 | His mother put her hands back on the wheel but threw them off with a scream . |
| 19 | For such Catholic sixth forms or sixth form colleges , therefore , the challenge is not simply to be as good as the alternative but to exceed it in reputation and appeal . |
| 20 | Alternatively , unplug the telephone but keep it near the socket for emergency use . |
| 21 | Instead Ford has decided not to pass the Government 's tax cut on to the motorist but to pour it into its own pockets and profits . |
| 22 | As Mr Leslie had explained earlier he was completely sober and was not given to imagination , he screwed his eyes up looking for the reason for the footsteps ; he could n't see the feet but heard them quite distinctly passing him in the ballast below . |
| 23 | The ITC will closely monitor response to the ad but says it will be difficult to edit out offending elements . |
| 24 | Corporate Manager Ian Redpath also praised the test but admitted he , too , was told to take more exercise . |
| 25 | Whilst Benedicta described Ursula and her malevolent sow , Athelstan felt tempted to talk to Vincentius about the desecration of the cemetery but concluded it was not a topic suitable for the table . |
| 26 | She duly turned to the Psalms but found them equally disturbing . |
| 27 | She began to be what is termed ‘ a public nuisance ’ going up to strangers , not begging under the terms of the act but importuning them to help her get her daughter back . |
| 28 | She had seen the initial stage of the assessment process as an opportunity to enhance her role in the decision-making but saw it as restricting her power . |
| 29 | She put no special inflection into the question but eased it out naturally . |
| 30 | Well , Tam has asked the question but answered it elsewhere , writing that Crossman 's ‘ sense of his own position in the elite of the nation never deserted him ’ , and that ‘ he seldom if ever had any doubts about his place at the very epicentre of the British Establishment ’ . |