Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] but [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Emperor heard Mass every Sunday in the Chapel of the Tuileries , a Low Mass but normally accompanied by music . |
| 2 | He drifted into junior football but then linked up again with McFall at Portadown — where he won two championship medals . |
| 3 | This put him off personal involvement in scientific research but probably provided material for his novels The Search and The Affair . |
| 4 | I tried to get some compensation but only managed to get a little … and that was six years afterwards , which was no use at all . |
| 5 | For the judge suggested that the legal effect of the Genocide Act and that of the Geneva Conventions Act were indistinguishable for all relevant purposes , since neither fully incorporated the respective Convention into English law but merely created new criminal offences to give effect to that convention . |
| 6 | The third ring included most of the land already acquired for green belt purposes under the 1938 Act , but it would also include other open land , not necessarily in public ownership but permanently safeguarded against building . |
| 7 | The nine females who undertook the course remained within the high zone but nevertheless registered a reduction from an average of 39 units to 28 units per week . |
| 8 | The former comes from those well-known case people Hiscox , and it 's a super-lightweight , fully-shaped hard case in the Liteflite range but specially designed for Strats , Teles and the like . |
| 9 | ‘ He had another chance but perhaps got a bit too tight on the goalkeeper with that one . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ What sort of creature ? ’ asked Betty suspiciously , possibly thinking of those large mysterious cats which are regularly sighted all over the British Isles but never caught . |
| 11 | Each is a slim volume but so packed with useful information and recipes that the price of £4.99 seems modest . |
| 12 | Areas of poor acoustic quality but tightly constrained by local syntactic and semantic information would be identified through top-down prediction . |
| 13 | His journey is one of growth in patient awareness that the truth of the Gospel can not be enforced by social legislation but only fostered in the consciousness of individuals from whose hearts alone the reality of social salvation can spring . |
| 14 | Ian Spiro was a novice in this league but still acted like he was in the big time , joining Lomas Santa Fe Country Club where membership costs ‘ tens of thousands ’ . |
| 15 | The Stasi , the secret police , successor to the Gestapo ( and probably partly recruited from it , as is the way of things ) not only kept files on most East German citizens but also encouraged — or blackmailed — people to fill them by informing . |
| 16 | The Church of São Bento in Ribeira Brava was built in the sixteenth century but completely altered in the eighteenth century . |
| 17 | Staff seemed evenly divided — we received some smiles but also caught some rather unsavoury glances . |
| 18 | The patient was reluctant to have further surgery but eventually agreed . |
| 19 | Fleetwood charter boats able to fish the edges of the bay during unsettled weather but only found dabs and whiting . |
| 20 | Tubbs and Lewis ran the mill for some time but finally ceased production there . |
| 21 | They innovated as far as possible under the 1948 Act but eventually secured a further Act , in 1963 , which legitimated ‘ preventive ’ work . |
| 22 | The institutional manifestation of non-intervention was the Non-Intervention Committee , set up in London in September 1936 to supervise the application of a principle observed by the democracies and by smaller European countries but openly flouted by Europe 's three most powerful dictatorships . |
| 23 | The buildings were based upon late Roman designs but also displayed Oriental features especially in decoration and their use of brickwork in constructional and ornamental forms . |
| 24 | These tracks can be used either in connection with self-guided library tours or for linking parts of the library with similar functions but physically separated from each other . |
| 25 | In an interview with an Austrian newspaper Havel criticized this boycott as " a game " which had once had a moral basis but now consisted of " rather cold-blooded considerations — if one does not go , others will not go " . |
| 26 | Herr Nordern was quizzed by the entire staff but stoically maintained that he knew no more than anyone else . |
| 27 | The views of prominent members here are best expressed in a motion originating from Wickham Bishops branch , passed at the Essex Federation AGM in May 1957 , considered by the District Executive in the following month but eventually withdrawn from the agenda of the subsequent District Council : |
| 28 | Compulsory regular attendance at services in King 's College chapel may account for numerous biblical references in later poems ; Sorley was deeply religious in the philosophical sense but always remained out of tune with conventional belief . |
| 29 | Coventry hotshot Mick Quinn arrived on a streak of 10 goals from six games but never got a sniff of the target . |
| 30 | Some schools , like Newcastle 's Northern Counties School , were evacuated in early September but soon returned to their proper premises . |