Example sentences of "[noun] but [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The formal discipline can sometimes tidy up muddled thinking but at other times it can interfere with the creatively developing interaction between trainer and trainee . |
| 2 | The Citroen BX has long been Britain 's most popular diesel-engined car but in recent months it has been overtaken by another model from the same French stable the ZX . |
| 3 | It 's impossible to say if this element affected the Asian research scientist 's vote but in General Elections it is the issues , usually , which dominate . |
| 4 | Some small captives become pets but within five years they are potentially dangerous and have to be put behind bars . |
| 5 | It is covered by scales ; in small specimens , disk diameter c. 2.5 m , it is possible to distinguish the centrodorsal and primary plates but in larger specimens they become inconspicuous . |
| 6 | Some people have notions of using the technology as an ambitious static analysis machine but in most cases it simply presents more data than anybody needs and will have to be restrained . |
| 7 | All farms have rats and mice but in recent years they have been coming through from the barn into the house and getting into the furniture . |
| 8 | In particular circumstances a director may owe a duty directly to shareholders ; that duty will not derive from his status as a director but from particular responsibilities he has voluntarily taken on . |
| 9 | Originally , he was on a six-month contract but despite disappointing results he was able to re-negotiate his contract . |
| 10 | At the start North Down man Ian Lyle shadowed Rowan but after two miles he lost contact and Albertville 's Paddy Branagh took up the pursuit , moving to within 30 metres of Rowan . |
| 11 | If in the year in which the benefit is given to the taxpayer the amount of the relevant income is less than the amount of the benefit then the individual is only taxed on the amount of the relevant income but in subsequent years he can be further charged if there is further relevant income but never in excess of the amount of the benefit ( s740(2) ) . |
| 12 | Now one of the things that you tend to find is that if you were to ask about groups then people regurgitate all the stuff about groups but with most questions you can usually see links to other parts of the syllabus . |
| 13 | Birds respond to a wide range of sounds but for many years it was assumed that their low-frequency hearing was poorer than ours . |
| 14 | In commercial terms that 's like committing suicide but in artistic terms it 's been much more fulfilling . ’ |
| 15 | Always excellent on that yes , he 's a toad in some ways but in other ways he 's very good . |
| 16 | Usually , where subsidiaries have shares in issue which are not held by another company in the group they are reported in the consolidated financial statements within minority interests but in some cases they are required by the [ draft ] FRS to be reported within liabilities , that is , as debt . |
| 17 | This indicates that acinar cells in pancreatitis retain their responsiveness to direct secretory stimulation but for some reasons they become ‘ resistant ’ to the stimulation in vivo . |
| 18 | ‘ You can be perfectly well with HIV but at other times it 's hard to do even basic things . |
| 19 | Like many a similar building it had declined in status but in recent years it has been handsomely restored to its former glory . |
| 20 | On those cases it , it usually evens itself out er it usually says oh due to roundings I 'll ignore that erm cos I 've actu erm I 've gained through the unit statement on , cos I 've had one of these stand alone policies , and not wishing to pay the one pound ninety I 've actually knocked it on the head now and incorporated it with another policy , but erm when we looked at it all , overall I 've got a nil unit situation but in some months I actually had negative units , some months I had a , a sort of like point zero one of a unit positive . |
| 21 | In an organisation such as a hospital , communicating is a means to an end but in some organisations it is an end in itself . |
| 22 | The origins of Osiris are shrouded in mystery but in early times he was a fertility god , whose death and rebirth were connected with the cycle of the agricultural year . |
| 23 | It would seem to anyone the perfect recipe for a good holiday but to these youngsters it is particularly special . |
| 24 | The rules of the scheme provide that the application for arbitration must be made within nine months of the date of return from the holiday but in special circumstances it may still be offered outside this period . |
| 25 | In herbivores it is the larvated egg which is passed out in the faeces but in other animals it is the hatched L1 . |
| 26 | They do not have the ego-satisfaction of having thought up a brand new idea but in practical terms they do well ; The pioneer has developed the field and born the development costs . |