Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] but [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By going down to sea level , you can walk out on to the Rocker de la Vierge , reached by a short gangway , which has a statue of the Virgin on top and the beginnings of a jetty planned by the Emperor Napoleon III but never finished because the sea kept demolishing it . |
| 2 | The C.-in-C. of the Army , Gen. Hérard Abraham , was dismissed on July 2 but later claimed that he had retired " for personal reasons " . |
| 3 | In a concession to Ecuadorean demands , Fujimori accepted Borja 's proposal , made at the UN General Assembly on Sept. 30 but then rejected by Peru , that the Vatican arbitrate the dispute , albeit at the request of the Rio de Janeiro protocol signatories . |
| 4 | The UN Security Council had approved in April the creation of a UN Operation in Somalia ( Unosom — see also p. 38855 ) , with a 50-strong group of military observers in UN uniform , and UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on June 23 announced the decision to send in this group , whose task would be to monitor a ceasefire which had been signed by the two main militias in February 1992 but never implemented . |
| 5 | Kate Collingwood , who had read Modern Greats at Oxford and was well-known as a luminary of the Kelvedon Players , gave up her seat as a Labour county councillor , was appointed in November 1954 but eventually resigned in December 1957 . |
| 6 | The text was based on a draft treaty between Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union initialled in October 1991 but never signed [ see pp. 38540-41 ] . |
| 7 | GCC Interior Ministers met in Kuwait on Nov. 21 and 22 , and Finance Ministers met on Nov. 22 but apparently failed to make progress on proposals for a customs union — a step towards creation of a common market by the year 2000 which had been set as an objective earlier in the year [ see p. 38985 ] . |