Example sentences of "[noun pl] but [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cotton paper used to be made with cotton rags but is now made from cotton linters , which refers to the second harvest from the cotton plant . |
| 2 | In other matches skippers Kim Barnett and Mark Benson scored centuries but were badly let down by their team-mates . |
| 3 | Watson had been given a hard time from the Wednesday crowd before those goals but is now hoping the tide has turned . |
| 4 | ‘ It had been left with a blue towel wrapped around its waist and legs but was otherwise uncovered . |
| 5 | Sandra , but she preferred Sandy , told us that she 'd worked at the Exhilarator for five months but was just biding her time before she could move away from her mother and get her own place in London . |
| 6 | My own conclusions , which in this case are probably completely worthless , are that this ticking represents a period of grace — I mean that it can not explode — as long as the ticking lasts and that it 's not designed to explode when the ticking stops but is then activated and ready to explode when triggered by passing engines . |
| 7 | The girl has recovered from her wounds but is still taking tablets to sleep at night . |
| 8 | They offer a few scholarships but are mainly attended by boys from well-to-do families who want their sons to get into the officer corps . |
| 9 | The gases have been used to cool most types of fridges for decades but are now headed for a world-wide ban in 1996 after being blamed for causing holes in the ozone layer , which shields the earth from the sun 's harmful ultraviolet rays . |
| 10 | These occur in nearly all orders of insects but are best developed in the more primitive groups ( Orthoptera , Dermaptera , Isoptera , Odonata ) ; in the higher orders they are more or less reduced . |
| 11 | According to Snodgrass they occur in all winged insects but are much modified in the Ephemeroptera and Odonata , presumably because these insects do not flex the wings over the abdomen at rest . |
| 12 | Now aged 38 , Harwood has been making things , perfecting techniques and designing for the last twenty years but is barely known outside a small group of cognoscenti . |
| 13 | Coton , last season 's choice by his fellow professionals as the country 's top goalkeeper , has been in England squads for two years but is still awaiting a first full cap . |
| 14 | The landmark structure has been out of action for two years but is now expected to be back in service in July . |
| 15 | At this time the village inn had not only become the centre of social life for the lower classes but was also frequented by the local squire and lesser gentry . |
| 16 | These are replacements but are still carried on the original pendentives . |
| 17 | This not only helps to prevent heart attacks but is also used to aid the recovery of those who have already suffered them . |
| 18 | The techniques and skills that follow can be performed on all funboards but are best suited to boards under 3.20m as they are more controllable in strong winds . |
| 19 | A lecture course is often a passive form of learning : you listen acutely and take notes but are generally discouraged from asking questions or raising points because the size of the group inhibits fruitful exchanges . |
| 20 | She careered across the finish line minus her skis but was still credited with fourth place behind winner Carole Merle of France . |
| 21 | He missed the second half of last season after undergoing the latest in a series of knee operations but is now determined to improve on only 12 first-class wickets . |
| 22 | Elements of Solaris Live ! were included in prior Solaris releases but were never bundled together . |
| 23 | The four were Donna Maguire , arrested in Turnhout , Belgium , on June 16 , who was wanted in connexion with attacks in West Germany in 1989 ; Gerard Majella Harte , arrested over the Dutch border on June 16 , after evading Belgian police near Turnhout , with a man provisionally named as Michael Collins who escaped in handcuffs but was later picked up over the Dutch border in Chaam , on June 18 ; and Paul Hughes , who drove through a police checkpoint in Chaam on June 18 and was arrested there on June 19 . |
| 24 | In the second presidential debate , in Richmond , Virginia , Bush again raised the issue of Clinton 's student activities but was sharply rebuked by his opponent who recalled how Bush 's own father had been an ardent opponent of McCarthyism . |
| 25 | As far as the Channel Tunnel is concerned it has reluctantly accepted the need for on-train immigration checks but is still insisting that customs checks must be carried out at the terminals , against the advice of commercial interests who see such checks as detrimental to the ‘ user friendliness ’ of the Tunnel . |
| 26 | The ladies had removed their hats but were still constricted by their fashionable jackets and long skirts . |
| 27 | A look at this shy and distinctive creature which has lived in Britain for thousands of years and featured in many favourite stories but is rarely seen in its natural habitat . |
| 28 | Downs claims that the needs and self-interests of officials develop into informal social structures in bureaucracies which are not solely the consequence of goal conflicts and resistance to official objectives but are also designed to ease the process of implementation ( Downs 1967 , pp. 63–5 ) . |
| 29 | Miss Riley served the Booksellers Association in many ways but is particularly remembered for her painstaking work on the Education Committee . |
| 30 | Patients 302 and 303 died from myocardial infarctions but were also known to be affected with polyps found on screening in their late 30s andboth having later bowel resections . |