Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] but [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not intended to generate a specific code exclusively for each part but to use a code , in conjunction with the defined attributes and physical size of the part , to describe it , presenting it to the designer in a hypothesis-based reference system . |
| 2 | The American palm swift also produces a sticky saliva but makes no attempt to gather anything as substantial as twigs . |
| 3 | Mountfort had carefully paved the way in meetings with the Prime Minister , Mrs Indira Gandhi , who not only gave her complete support but appointed a cabinet minister as well as the director of Delhi Zoo to supervise a six-year conservation plan . |
| 4 | Women wedded to men 's systems , arguing for resources and significance , have little alternative but to accept the context as given and learn as effectively as possible , to pitch in with the rest . |
| 5 | Team nursing not only provides this support but offers a way in which the fullest value can be gained from the opportunities for ward learning . |
| 6 | The Maggot was not taking evasive action but quartering the ground in search of our enemy . |
| 7 | Or we could comply with the 30 October 1993 rule but amend the accounting reference date within the first nine months of incorporation , as we may , and draw up accounts to 31 October 1993 , which is within the seven day period allowed by s 223(2) . |
| 8 | Understanding is not conveyed solely through clear diction but has a lot to do with the language used . |
| 9 | She herself did not continue scientific work but raised a family of four and has enjoyed many interests , though less actively since a stroke three years ago . |
| 10 | Peter Williams , director of the trust , confirmed that the trustees had met this week but insisted no decision had yet been taken . |
| 11 | This article does not propose to discuss philosophical , practical , theological or moral questions related to this subject but to take the opportunity of examining it in technical detail , as befits those who practise the science of embalming . |
| 12 | Of 65 right handed patients who had post-operative aphasia , 54 had shown some effect of stimulation on their speech and a further 10 out of 15 right handed patients showed aphasic arrest during cortical stimulation but had no post operative aphasia . |
| 13 | He gave no further explanation but entered the pen . |
| 14 | There are none of us , including Cliff , a concrete contractor from Washington state , and his wife Sandy , who wanted to go to Paris this summer but lost the toss of a coin ; Bill , who writes travel guides and is comfortable only in his own company ; and Ken , a semi-retired naval man from Oregon , who spends most of the time wrestling with the impossible task of capturing the gigantic scenery in photographs . |
| 15 | There are systems in research laboratories which approach this goal but increasing the number of speakers who can be recognised reduces the number of words that can be accepted at any one time . |
| 16 | This cuts most crop for least work but leaves the windrow in a continuous ‘ rope ’ with heads and butts mixed . |
| 17 | For example , in 1983 it was said that ‘ even where the husband had been violent , it would be reasonable for the wife to continue to reside in the matrimonial home but to seek a court order restraining his violence or barring him from the home ’ and in these circumstances the authority 's duty would be ‘ to advise the applicant so to do , not to accommodate her as a homeless person ’ . |
| 18 | We then had a rousing Le Corsaire pas de deux , with Elvira Tarasov and Igor Zelensky dancing just as Ruzimatov should have done in the Diana and Actaeon , with technical bravura but putting the choreography and music first , and themselves only as the servants of dance as an art . |
| 19 | Senescence could be prevented or reduced either by retaining binary fission but keeping the population size large , or by allowing sexual reproduction . |
| 20 | The King takes a disliking to the cheshire cat but expects the cat to show respect towards him . |
| 21 | Cross-addiction ensures that the weaker Fellowships receive support from members who have experience of stronger Fellowships but it may nonetheless at times be more helpful for a newcomer to receive slightly less individual identification but gain the experience of a stronger Fellowship . |
| 22 | Ireland led 48-39 at the half-way point but had no answer to a late Welsh rally that gave then a 92-82 win . |
| 23 | Dixons ' shares jumped to 153p in early trading but ended the day at 141p , a 22p rise . |
| 24 | He screwed up his face at the appalling stench but made no move to draw back . |
| 25 | In the event , the more fateful decision was not the proposal of a route within the walled city but making the starting point for the march the railway station on the Protestant Waterside . |
| 26 | To create a twisted rope effect , pipe in a straight line but twist the bag as you are piping , keeping an even pressure on the icing all the time . |
| 27 | It is a chilling image but reflects the quandary which Gunn faces as romanticism and reason come into conflict . |
| 28 | He believed in the established order but found no authority in the Scriptures for a hierarchy of Pope and bishops ; in the early Church indeed he found that riches were despised . |
| 29 | A manager 's pay often is not a fixed salary but contains a bonus element dependent upon performance ( profitability etc . ) . |
| 30 | ( 1984 , experiment 1b ) gave rats tone-shock pairings in one context , intermixed with sessions of exposure to a second context ; the subjects were thus fully familiar with the second context but had no experience of conditioning procedures in it . |