Example sentences of "but [noun] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thomas had experienced learning difficulties since he was five , but experts used by his local authority failed to spot his dyslexia . |
| 2 | Foreign lawyers will still be able to practise as such on their own within the UK without registering but solicitors employed by them will not be able to hold themselves out as such to clients of the business . |
| 3 | But shareholders voted by three to one last week to back the sell-offs which will reduce borrowings to a consortium of banks , who acquired 61 per cent of GPG after the collapse of the New Zealand Equiticorp business . |
| 4 | But gynaecologists contacted by telephone said they had stopped doing the operation . |
| 5 | This is not an exhortation by a modern radical , but words written by E. B. Huey in 1908 ! |
| 6 | But mice sired by fathers that had been given morphine learn more slowly . |
| 7 | Competition for the award was hotly contested , but Newark won by a neck for improving All of their exhibits in one fell swoop ! |
| 8 | Welsh manager Jim Mills is angry and has vowed to fight the International Board 's decision , but Lindsay responded by saying : ‘ The credentials for the inclusion of World Cup debutantes Fiji , Tonga and Western Samoa are first class . |
| 9 | But Lindsay responded by saying : ‘ The credentials for the inclusion of World Cup debutante Fiji , Tonga and Western Samoa are first class . |
| 10 | Regarding the prediscovery sightings of Neptune , Lalande 's in 1795 is said too differ from ephemeris predictions by seven or more arcseconds , but Standish shows by extrapolating two ephemerides backwards that the predictions are uncertain by at least several arcseconds ; combined with the scatter in Lalande 's observations this makes the discrepancy rather dubious . |
| 11 | ‘ Demonstrate , Nicholson , ’ Mr Foggerty said hopefully , but Nicholson demonstrated by swimming away back to the deep end , mostly underwater where he was hard to see . |
| 12 | And in Paris , where there were fewer hotel room additions before the Gulf War , occupancy rates fell by 1.4 percentage points to 74.8% in 1990 but roomrates advanced by 9.1% in local currency . |
| 13 | It is therefore entirely possible that the Kremlin will delay a resumption of negotiations and wait for our natural impatience , our demobilization problems , declining American interest in Korean affairs and local dissatisfaction with the division of the country to oblige us to supply speedy solution of these terms , i.e. a united front which excluding [ excludes ] all but elements controlled by the Communist Party . |
| 14 | No admission fee is charged but donations given by visitors amount to £180 . |
| 15 | Characters , for example , are not ‘ real ’ people but effects produced by the semic code through its naming of qualities , which are then given an appearance of individuality and reality through the attribution of a proper name . |
| 16 | But approval recommended by the West Hill ratepayers . |
| 17 | Once Auntie Jean did rip through to raw feeling by mentioning the numerous virtues of her former Tory boy , but Ted retaliated by saying ( one evening during his vow of silence ) , ‘ That boy soon saw the light as far as you 're concerned , did n't he ? ’ |
| 18 | Era Group , which operates the 70-strong Beatties toyshop chain , increased sales by 3 per cent to £73.3 million last year , but costs rose by 4 per cent and after servicing an unchanged interest charge of £1.9 million , pre-tax profits more than halved to £978,000 . |
| 19 | Higgs and Hill sold 500 homes in 1988 , but volumes dropped by 35 per cent in the first half of 1989 . |
| 20 | But Lancaster replied by attacking the government for extravagance and oppressively burdening the people , saying that he would come armed to parliament and seek to remedy these matters unless the king granted him a safe-conduct . |
| 21 | At first their success was limited , but capitalism had by now taken an unmistakeable hold in industry and agriculture alike . |
| 22 | But Caro stood by the table and did n't move . |
| 23 | ‘ It is not often recognized ’ , said Maine in 1885 ‘ how excessively rare in the world was sustained legislative activity till rather more than fifty years ago ’ , but law-making had by 1880 already become the characteristic activity of the modern state . |
| 24 | But Ladbrokes reacted by easing Miinnehoma to 14-1 ( from 10s ) in their Gold Cup betting . |
| 25 | ‘ It is a tremendous programme but Rooster choreographed by Christopher Bruce and danced to Stones music is the one that tears most slates off the roofs , ’ explained company spokesman Chris May . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , Intel still denies that there is any delay in volume deliveries of the Pentium 80586 microprocessor for public consumption , but vendors briefed by the company have confirmed that , as we revealed a few weeks ago ( UX No 410 ) , the part at present needs a heat sink and a fan , and that Intel is unlikely to be able to ship in volume before the fourth quarter 1993 . |
| 27 | Normally it takes three or four years to complete the apprenticeship , but Reay helped by his ten year 's experience of weaving and considerable determination , achieved it in half the time . |
| 28 | The Supreme Court ruled on Dec. 13 that he should be returned to prison but Alcalde had by this time left the country . |
| 29 | SDLP , Alliance and Sinn Fein members voted against the proposal by the DUP 's Sammy Wilson , but unionists won by 22 votes to 16 . |
| 30 | Over the last decade , the upper disposable income limit rose by about 50 per cent , but earnings rose by 135 per cent and prices by 93 per cent . |