Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] but [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet if you want properly to hear a Prom there is often little alternative but to stay at home with the radio transmission , so wretched are the acoustics in large areas of the Royal Albert Hall . |
| 2 | The railway company always intended to lease the Euston as a first-class hotel but tried at first to run the Victoria itself . |
| 3 | Twelve healthy volunteers with no past medical history but weighing at least 10% more than their ideal weight gave written informed consent to the protocol which was approved by the ethics committee of the Ho 4pital Lariboisière . |
| 4 | She faced a stiff task but started at 15–8 to overcome her inexperience in — very significantly — the first Gold Cup to give mares a five-pound weight concession . |
| 5 | Among names that immediately spring to mind are those of Sydney Schanberg , the former New York Times correspondent who was in Phnom Penh at the time of the fall , and whose subsequent search for his Cambodian assistant , Dith Pran , was documented in Roland Joffé 's film The Killing Fields , who arrived in Indo- China at the age of 21 and was there from 1970 to mid-1975 , first with Agence France Presse , then as a stringer for The Sunday Times — when all the other journalists were getting out , Swain was either brave or foolhardy enough to fly back into Phnom Penh in time for its fall ; William Shawcross who , along with many others , covered the Vietnam war for The Sunday Times and who subsequently became obsessed with the fate of Cambodia , an obsession that resulted first in Sideshow , which exposed the role of Nixon and Kissinger , and then in The Quality of Mercy , a study of the work of the Red Cross in Cambodia ; John Pilger , the British-based Australian journalist whose work on Cambodia may have had little concrete effect but has at least helped to ensure that the tragic country will never disappear into oblivion ; Philip Caputo , who went initially to Vietnam in March 1965 as a 23-year-old Marine officer with the first US combat group sent to Indo-China and returned in 1975 as a correspondent to report on what was left of the war . |
| 6 | So I decided not to go to the Literary Club but to stay at home . |