Example sentences of "[vb pp] but [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | New figures show just 119 of the 15,767 properties controlled by the council , less than one per cent , fit to be let but without a tenant . |
| 2 | They decline to be interviewed but in a statement to us said , this year , productivity has increased while the accident rate has fallen . |
| 3 | The door did not lead into the shop as Wycliffe had expected but into a minute hall with the shop door on the right , and stairs leading up . |
| 4 | His head was shaven but for a topknot . |
| 5 | In some ways I remain permanently a diplomat , allegedly detached but with a tendency to go native , which , of course , is what I did here . |
| 6 | So that it is a matter most essential to the liberties of this kingdom , that such members be delegated to this important trust , as are most eminent for their probity , their fortitude , and their knowledge ; for it was a known apophthegm of the great lord treasurer Burleigh , ‘ that England could never be ruined but by a Parliament ’ … |
| 7 | It calls on the relevant authorities to designate as Sites of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSIs ) all remaining peat bogs with at least some primary vegetation and those damaged but with a potential for rehabilitation . |
| 8 | But while it seems at first quite normal that this should happen at an inquest involving the opera 's central character one soon notices that the process is in fact highly artificial , like the narrations which open several of Britten 's later operas , designed in this instance to have the dramatis personae stand up and be recognised but in a context which fits the story . |
| 9 | At least three uses of figures are notable : ( i ) Occasional figures , in a central or peripheral position ; conspicuous " in mosaics datable to c. 130-180. ( ii ) Elaborate figures , often numerous , well drawn and well executed but with a number of possible themes in any one mosaic ; predominantly in the west of the province , after c. 170-180. ( iii ) Figures in a scene ; predominantly in the south-east of England , after c. 160-170 . |
| 10 | These two problems can be overcome but at a price in terms of the overall precision and accuracy of the result . |
| 11 | All of the topics listed in Section 4 would be covered but in a way that emphasizes the practical . |
| 12 | But funerals in any expensive way here with us , are now accounted but as a fruitlesse vanitie , insomuch that almost all the ceremoniall rites of obsequies heretofore used , are altogether laid aside : for we see daily that Noblemen , and Gentlemen of eminent ranke , office , and qualitie , are either silently buried in the night time , with a Torch , a two-penie Linke , and a Lanterne ; or parsimoniously interred in the day-time , by the helpe of some ignorant countrey-painter , without the attendance of any one of the Officers of Armes , whose chiefest support , and maintenance , hath ever depended upon the performance of such funerall rites , and exequies . |