Example sentences of "but [vb past] with [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A rhetorical question , but asked with deep feeling . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Ancient Egypt has been called the infancy of the soul , but coupled with that innocence is the terrible knowledge of death . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Last year I set out on the same quest , but met with little success . |
| 9 | Charles told Jacqui the new information he 'd gleaned , but met with little luck in following it up . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | There he sat in his writer 's hotel room , venturing out into a series of tight corners , filing his copy , then leaving for Warsaw to compose his short books — objects physically slight but charged with these confusions . |
| 13 | It was the full Wagner orchestra , with full sonority , but played with real subtlety and the full range of dynamic levels . |
| 14 | The MainLan cards in the What Personal Computer system had both types of Ethernet sockets , but came with thin Ethernet cables , so that 's what we used . |
| 15 | He did n't really believe it , all the time he was being dragged through near-empty streets which were no longer silent , but filled with curious brawls , or outbursts of squealing or , what he had just heard , the sound of terrified retching . |
| 16 | Recalling the hybridisation and agit-pop of the early '80s , but infused with '90s spirit , ‘ Revolution Of Thought ’ has been remixed into space-dub shape by underrated twiddlers Llwybr Llaethog . |
| 17 | It is notable that , on the final French campaign of 1449–50 , carefully and confidently organised by the king , and carried out by a much-reformed army , the majority of fortified places did not resist , preferring to open their gates to the side which not only controlled more firepower but claimed with greater vigour to represent legitimate and effective rule . |
| 18 | But faced with that kind of opposition the Yek would simply re-form and attack again , learning from each engagement until either they discovered how to defeat their adversaries or they were wiped out . |
| 19 | King Philip travelled south in an attempt to make peace but faced with such stubbornness on both sides he was forced to return with nothing accomplished . |
| 20 | Ward does n't admit it , but faced with declining sales and lay-offs at Crewe the Continental R is the confidence booster the company needs . |
| 21 | Support staff , numerically increased in some areas , but threatened with further reductions in others , are able to reach only a minority of the estimated number of children in need of special attention . |
| 22 | Eighteen stone Sian bravely fought for her life but collapsed with nine stab wounds in her back . |
| 23 | As part of the Perfectly Simple range , Muffins by Steven Stellingwert is a tiny book but packed with mouth-watering ideas and pretty illustrations . |
| 24 | It was a calculated tear-jerker , but delivered with great sincerity , and Kathleen found her own eyes misting over . |
| 25 | These included a Venetian work of 1641 , La finta pazza by Francesco Sacrati , which was partly shorn of its music but brightened with fresh ballets by a French composer and striking stage-effects by a celebrated technician Giacomo Torelli , on 14 December 1645 , and Egisto in February 1646 . |
| 26 | ‘ Way you go , Patty , ’ he said softly , and the dog was off , hurling herself along the embankment , all paws and flying ears , after a rabbit who had been sitting in a patch of sun but disappeared with contemptuous ease as she came close . |
| 27 | He felt he could not give public evidence , for fear of reprisals against his family in Colombia , but spoke with great compassion about the plight of ‘ disappeared ’ people in his native country . |
| 28 | A further 10 cases did not report gastrointestinal symptoms but presented with non-specific complaints of fatigue and lassitude only and were investigated because of unexplained anaemia . |
| 29 | She did not say this to Betty , but smiled with false self-satisfaction . |
| 30 | The request sounded impeccably polite , but tinged with dry sarcasm . |