Example sentences of "but [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And is the old rumour true ; are strings in reality all the same , but stuffed into different packages ? |
| 2 | He went through a schools system which made art compulsory , failing the subject at O-level but passed with flying colours to gain an Alevel in sculpture . |
| 3 | Mrs Thatcher agreed to allow the Report to be sent out for consultation , but asked for one alteration . |
| 4 | A rhetorical question , but asked with deep feeling . |
| 5 | Dr Arthur Upton , formerly director of the NCI and now with New York University Medical Center , was gentler , but agreed with many others that the distinction between genotoxic and epigenetic is useless for judging risk to humans . |
| 6 | not fudged , but agreed in concrete terms on a rather different basis . |
| 7 | Kite , the US Open champion , had a seven at the fourth but recovered with six birdies for a 69 , while Norman failed to join Faldo in the lead by missing from 8ft at the 18th for a 71 . |
| 8 | The FT-SE 100 share index was down 42 points at one stage but recovered in later trading to end the day down 30.5 points at 2,281.6 . |
| 9 | The case of Bishop Zhu Hongsheng , 76 , sentenced to 15 years in prison , was unrelated to the pro-democracy protests but led to international calls that China allow more freedom of worship . |
| 10 | Drug related adverse clinical events were mainly trivia , but led to three patients on cisapride and one on placebo withdrawing from the trial . |
| 11 | A straw poll by The Bookseller last week revealed that Octopus , Bloomsbury and Macmillan were among publishers who closed for Christmas but reopened before New Year , and that publishers taking a 10 day break — closing on Christmas Eve and reopening on 4th January — included HarperCollins , Transworld , OUP , CUP , Orion and Dorling Kindersley . |
| 12 | Edis was there in the holiday season , but lived at 32 Ladbroke Square , West London too . |
| 13 | Four of these were members of the networks under observation , but lived in neighbouring townships and so were excluded from the quantitative analysis which concerned itself with the known-unknown ratio in specific townships . |
| 14 | He was present at the funeral of Edward VI , but lived in quiet retirement during Mary I 's reign . |
| 15 | ‘ They must have bugged her for the same reason we went to see her : she was somebody unofficial but experienced in underground work — They 'd know they were up against some British group not the CIA . |
| 16 | Certainly by the year 2000 BC , the tables of the Cretan rulers shone and glittered with drinking cups of gold and silver and , even in the century before the first temples were raised , those rulers were wearing elegant gold ornaments , not imported , but produced by Minoan craft workers . |
| 17 | There are many cheeses that are similar to Brie and Camembert but produced in different shapes or sold at differing stages of ripeness. all are referred to as surface-ripened , containing bacteria on their developing white rinds . |
| 18 | Schools that have bought computers approved by the DoI but made by other firms , for instance Sinclair or Research Machines , can not buy adaptors . |
| 19 | Ancient Egypt has been called the infancy of the soul , but coupled with that innocence is the terrible knowledge of death . |
| 20 | This ruling mirrored the previous one but applied to occupational pension schemes as opposed to the then state retirement ages . |
| 21 | Cut 4cm ( 1½inches ) off the ends of two of the rectangular cakes and sandwich all four cakes together with some of the buttercream , the shorter ones on top , centred widthways but aligned at one end . |
| 22 | In 1976 , the centenary of the event , Mr Alan Spedding , the present organist and choir master , thought it might be time to call a halt but met with such opposition from the townspeople that it was decided to carry on . |
| 23 | Some lawyers in the Soviet Union advocated the adoption of the Western principle that the accused is presumed innocent until proved guilty , but met with little success until the Gorbachev period . |
| 24 | Last year I set out on the same quest , but met with little success . |
| 25 | Charles told Jacqui the new information he 'd gleaned , but met with little luck in following it up . |
| 26 | To eliminate multiple aircraft flights on the heavier routes FEC applied to the CAB to operate DC-9-15s , but met with tremendous opposition and their application was rejected . |
| 27 | The use of skeleton arguments has been popular with the Court of Appeal , but met with some resistance from some members of the Bar ( Blom-Cooper , 1984 ) . |
| 28 | In 1985 , they " woke up " and sued for possession but failed at first instance . |
| 29 | There was a lot of some sort of stone crop , which was pretty enough , but smelled at close quarters rather like cleaning fluid . |
| 30 | But caught in that web were jots of evidence that Angie quite simply lived with every day . |