Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manager Lennie Lawrence has delayed a final decision but he can not take a risk for a game that could clinch Boro automatic promotion . |
| 2 | Fashanu , ignored since being capped twice by Bobby Robson three years ago , said : ‘ Alan has had a good start but that does n't put him in the class of Ian . |
| 3 | The Transport Secretary is a very genial Scot who has had a bad press but can take it with a smile . |
| 4 | Organisational culture has become a fashionable concept but has been forced to bear a heavier weight than it can sustain in explanations of organisational performance ( as the recently declining fortunes of some of the companies studied by Peters and Waterman illustrate ) . |
| 5 | I think they will find that most authorities will agree that it has proved a major obstacle but by no means the only one . |
| 6 | The Nationwide has announced a five-year deal but at the higher fixed rate of 8.29 per cent , available on a repayment or endowment , but not interest-only basis . |
| 7 | He 'd made a good start but now he was faltering , and the focus of attention was drifting slowly away from him . |
| 8 | With Romy he 'd had a real romance but it had flourished only on the Continent and withered in the cold climate of England . |
| 9 | She 'd had a 24-hour labour but often said she did n't know what all the fuss was about these days . |
| 10 | I thought that I 'd created a new directory but I did n't . |
| 11 | If the applicant for a judicial remedy could have pursued a non-judicial remedy but has failed to do so , this may give a court a ground for refusing a judicial remedy : the law requires the ‘ exhaustion of alternative remedies ’ as it is sometimes put . |
| 12 | There was as well , similar but a whole step in advance , the why-dun-it , the book which depends for its interest on showing that someone who could easily enough have committed a certain murder but who on the face of it was incapable of that particular crime ( i.e. one who had J. C. Masterman 's aces of spades , hearts and diamonds but apparently not clubs ) is nevertheless seen eventually to be psychologically capable of that crime after all , once probed deeply enough . |
| 13 | The police could have adopted a different stratagem but it would have been ‘ more time-consuming and difficult ’ than this ‘ simple procedure ’ . |
| 14 | Some Saharan ergs may have had a similar origin but others may have occupied basins of centripetal drainage into which sand was transported in periods of wetter climate . |
| 15 | I may have had a foolish mother but at least she was there . |
| 16 | Anyone who considers what has happened with regard to the sugar and milk quotas or to anything else about which we felt that we should have had a different package but could not achieve it will be aware of how dangerous it is to allow the negotiations to proceed quickly when a longer discussion might result in a better solution . |
| 17 | ‘ I am sure the game would have finished a goal-less draw but for that incident . |
| 18 | He inherited wealth and could have lived a leisured life but preferred to pursue his earlier interest in natural philosophy . |
| 19 | The pain would have killed a lesser being but Aenarion had passed through the fire of Asuryan and agony could not slow him . |
| 20 | We may have discovered a statistical effect but do not understand how it operates ; the brute fact that people who have experienced unemployment are more rebellious in spirit does not itself explain why this occurs ( see diagram ) . |
| 21 | Possibly the fact that the Robin Hood ballads , which probably took their early form in this period , seem to have had a southern origin but set their events in the North ( particularly in Barnsdale , north of Doncaster , rather than in Sherwood ) , reflects the beliefs of southerners that the North was a strange and wild world . |
| 22 | Forty-one farms , just over a quarter , had developed a specialised product but it was apparent that the remainder did not envisage identifying or exploiting such products in the future . |
| 23 | It was the first time a hurdling dog had broken a flat record but trainer Paddy Hancox was not surprised . |
| 24 | Movies had won a considerable audience but that audience would be permanently restricted if the industry remained at the edge of society proper , if it remained a side-show or an underground activity . |
| 25 | Rose 's grandfather had made a stupid suggestion but he had also thrown some light on the history of the cottage . |
| 26 | The question was not whether the judge had made a wrong decision but whether he had inquired into and decided a matter which he had no right to consider . |
| 27 | Yes I 've got a hazy recollection but . |
| 28 | I do n't remember maybe I 've got a poor memory but er I ca n't remember you mentioning that the erm area committee but er there was erm going to be another block there and that er , the er this er trust , er Environment Trust had let one of the Northbrooks er and consulted with the Northbrook 's people ? |
| 29 | ‘ We 've got a decent team but no-one here is going to tempt fate by saying what we can and ca n't win . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ We 've got a decent team but no-one here is going to tempt fate by saying what we can and ca n't win . ’ |