Example sentences of "[noun prp] but [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modern Tarquinia ( earlier known as Corneto but now re-named after the Etruscan Tarquinii ) is built near to the original city . |
| 2 | Patshull Park Lake was ice free on Saturday but completely frozen on Sunday so two motor boats were used to break up the half inch thick ice for two hours . |
| 3 | He received a message from Hopkins and came to Templecombe but then blundered into the trap My Lord Cardinal had laid for him . |
| 4 | Small but perfectly formed for pub rocking ( ie sweaty and restricted view from all but the front three rows ) . |
| 5 | The plenum , which was described as " stormy " , decided that a formal CPSU stance on the question of CPL independence would be adopted at the next central committee plenum ( scheduled for late January but subsequently deferred until February ) , to be based on assessments made as a result of Gorbachev 's visit to Lithuania . |
| 6 | ‘ She says he met someone from the convent on the night that Lady Eleanor died , and that Father Reynard did go to Godstowe but then disappeared until the next morning . ’ |
| 7 | This evidence was available to the chief veterinary officer last December but never given to the Select Committee . |
| 8 | These observations are backed up by those of Tina , a 15-year-old born in Camden but now living in Gerrard 's Cross , a small , affluent town 25 miles from London . |
| 9 | NEWSOME Reasonable holding job on McCoist but often beaten on blindside |
| 10 | Darren Grannell , 28 , of Lord Street , Latchford , Warrington and Lee Day , 22 , formerly of Warrington but now living in Weston-super-Mare , denied assaulting PC Roy Aspinall but changed their pleas to guilty after a trial had started . |
| 11 | With two King George VI Chases at Kempton to his name and nearly £105,000 in the bank , this seven-year-old , owned by Marquesa de Moratalla , a 63-year-old who was born in Spain but now lives in Switzerland , and trained by Francois Doumen in a leafy suburb of Paris , seems vulnerable when faced with the infamous Cheltenham hill . |
| 12 | SHARE prices in London shrugged off Monday 's sharp fall on Wall Street but then succumbed to fresh falls in New York late in the day . |
| 13 | This is below the level in November but little changed from the figure from October . |
| 14 | Why did the French envoy take a ferry across the Forth but never arrive at Kinghorn ? |
| 15 | Now aged 72 , she hardly recognised the figure from 51 years ago , who lived most of her life in Buckley but now lives in Saltney . |
| 16 | One Y6 thought vaguely about inviting Michael Jackson but finally plumped for the local third-division full-back who lived just down the road . |
| 17 | Our method of classification was derived from that of Wigglesworth but slightly differed from it . |
| 18 | The accord renewed the provisions for a ceasefire which had been agreed on in March but never put into effect [ see p. 38755 ] . |
| 19 | In the Russian Museum itself , Oskar Rabin and Valentina Kropivnitskaya , two artists who once worked in Moscow but now live in Paris , have their work on display at present . |
| 20 | Steve Morrell of King 's School , Chester , hit a hat-trick against Repton but still finished on the losing side . |
| 21 | The coffee shrub is a large evergreen tropical bush , originally found in North Africa but now grown in many areas of the world . |
| 22 | This opposition was not confined to Donegal but also appeared in other areas — Cork , Carlow and Wicklow . |
| 23 | Mr Ritblat said he and his fellow directors were showing their commitment to New British Land by investing almost £12million in cash into the new company , which he said would concentrate on the UK but also look for overseas opportunities provided by the creation of the Single European market . |
| 24 | Its author , a historian who comes from former Yugoslavia but now lives in Britain , has gathered in one volume her writings published between 1981 and the end of 1991 . |
| 25 | They are concentrated in the Coastal Cordillera of the central Andes but also occur in the High Cordillera ( Fig. 3.11 ) . |
| 26 | Another person believes in God but still subscribes to his naturalistic view of science . |
| 27 | When prompted not to talk to Mary but just stand behind her and hold her shoulder it was evident how difficult the mother found this procedure . |
| 28 | Finally , we may detect a marked tendency to integrate subjects hitherto taught separately , a trend reflecting curriculum practice in Britain but also stemming from a desire to stress the relatedness of learning within a child 's own environment . |
| 29 | Some schools , like Newcastle 's Northern Counties School , were evacuated in early September but soon returned to their proper premises . |
| 30 | This is a little below the level in September but little changed from the figure for August . |