Example sentences of "but [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But elated Nicholson said : ‘ It was a battling performance . |
| 2 | But elated Nicholson said : ‘ It was a battling performance . |
| 3 | The ‘ Isle of Brasil ’ was mythical , but fifteenth-century Atlantic charts suggest that belief in lands across the ocean was not uncommon , and there is more than just possibility that the Bristol men had heard of some landfall in them before 1480 , perhaps when ships had been blown off course by abnormal wind conditions . |
| 4 | He may be approaching 37 , but durable England tighthead prop Jeff Probyn has no plans to give way to ‘ the fresh-faced kids ’ just yet . |
| 5 | ‘ Full Employment ’ might mean only one alternative job assignment , and that one in Denver , but stoic IBMers went where they were sent , and did what was needed . |
| 6 | But rural England today consists of much more than agriculture and English rural society is no longer entirely , nor even predominantly , an agrarian society . |
| 7 | Alongside a new Level 300 Series of ‘ compact ’ DRS 6000 servers , most of which use Texas Instruments Inc 's SuperSparc processor , the company , as expected ( CI No 2,138 ) , unveiled three new high-end multiprocessors that use Cypress Semiconductor Corp 's rival , but plug-compatible HyperSparc RISC . |
| 8 | And , finally , the machineheads are not Kluson copies , as you might expect , but tubby-buttoned Schaller copies . |
| 9 | But flipping Scott , mister interferior |
| 10 | But Labour Councillor David Drew , who proposed the origional banning motion , said it was a moral victory . |
| 11 | Furthermore Baldwin had to negotiate against the background of a damaging partial commitment by the Coalition Government , including the elegantly drafted but ill-judged Balfour note of July 1922 , and an American public opinion which was inward-looking and brashly commercial . |
| 12 | Woods plays an explosive but repressed Manhattan cop , with Fox as a Hollywood matinée idol who decides to shadow him by way of research for a tougher kind of cinematic role . |
| 13 | Byrne was not a particularly big man , standing only 5 feet 9 inches and weighing 13 stone , but Deaf Burke was even smaller at 5 feet 8½ inches , and 12 stone 7 lbs , so the Irishman felt he was onto a good thing . |
| 14 | The Earl lost his men in the mist and the smoke , and mistakenly appealed to those near him — not only Cumberland 's soldiers , but Scots Fusiliers , who took him prisoner . |
| 15 | Then , in 1963 , I was asked if I would write a piece on my own work for Living Arts , an immaculately produced but short-lived ICA magazine . |
| 16 | ’ You know things may change a little today , ’ the uncomfortable but professional PR had explained that morning . |
| 17 | But eight-year-old James Kingston admitted that he would n't want his younger brother Henry to see the film . |
| 18 | When Norwich and Arsenal appeared at Lancaster Gate the FA was concerned not only that neither club had condemned the incident immediately but that Norwich had not given any indication that they were going to punish some of their players , apart from fining them for making comments to newspapers . |
| 19 | For modern scholars , there is no question but that Jesus was steeped in biblical teachings and especially those of the prophetic books . |
| 20 | Nothing that has been submitted to us has raised any doubt in my mind but that Phillips J. dealt with all those points entirely correctly . |
| 21 | But that Gillian … |
| 22 | Shamir said that he regretted the US decision , but that Israel could not , under any circumstances , " go along with the principle that Jews have no right to live in this or that part of Greater Israel " . |
| 23 | Should think Tim 's watched more than his fair share really today , cos erm , he 's so ill this afternoon , whatever it was , but that Christopher was |
| 24 | ‘ I realise now that I was being told to get lost , but that Chris did n't have the guts to tell me himself , ’ she recalls . |
| 25 | Speaking at a press conference in the UN headquarters in New York on Sept. 30 , 1989 , the Iranian Foreign Minister , Ali Akbar Vellayati , said that Iran had accepted a four-point UN proposal including simultaneous troop withdrawal and prisoner exchange , but that Iraq had rejected the idea . |
| 26 | Saddam 's message to the American people was broadcast on Sept. 26 , saying that sanctions had been opposed because of Iraq 's rejection of " the Zionist occupation of the land of Palestine " , but that Iraq 's stance was supported by 200 million Arabs . |
| 27 | The French opposition may be described as right-wing but coporatism runs deep in France , so there 's no chance of any new government being so radical as to privatise France Telecom : the state phone company is not on the list of firms that France 's centre-right opposition may privatise if , as polls suggest , it wins March 's parliamentary elections , former president Valery Giscard d'Estaing said — Giscard , leader of the UDF party , told a news conference that all companies operating in the competitive sector of the economy would be candidates for privatisation , but that France Telecom , and nationalised transport and energy monopolies , would not . |
| 28 | They decided that Victoria would accompany them to the funeral , but that Hilary , who was a delicate child , should not be exposed to the January chill . |
| 29 | This matters because recent discussion shows Weber 's conception of class ( Wright , 1985 ) to be determined by production just as much as it is by Marx , but that Weber is concerned with consequences in terms of market exchanges , whereas Marx focuses on exploitation . |
| 30 | But that Terry of yours has put himself beyond it . |