Example sentences of "[adj] but [verb] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the attendants offered him a cup : he did not drink from this but threw out the contents and ran off with it . |
| 2 | For example , we may find that a job applicant for a position in sales was an international athlete in her teens ; on its own this piece of data is interesting but provides almost no insight into future performance in sales , especially if there is no demand for athletics in the job . |
| 3 | The diplomat knew that was untrue but asked why the man was imprisoned . |
| 4 | PC May did little but keep back the crowds and briefly interview Mrs Holt and George Grimsdale . |
| 5 | Alison plans to vote Labour but thinks nationally the Conservatives might squeeze a victory on April 9 . |
| 6 | ‘ We are aware there is a degree of anxiety among the public and so we have taken steps not only to contact those people concerned but to set up a helpline so any member of the public can ring in and have private counselling . ’ |
| 7 | First , where the settlor is insolvent but sets up a trust over some or all of his property . |
| 8 | country carrier , a ‘ lumbering , slow , honest ’ fellow and devoted husband of the much younger Mary ( called Dot ) , who is very domesticated but has also a capacity for managing other people 's affairs ; to wit , those of Edward Plummer and May Fielding , who , but for Dot 's secret intervention , would have married the disagreeable Tackleton . |
| 9 | Dan Wagoner 's own new work , first staged in Plymouth in October , has a jokey title , Turtles All The Way Down , and has something to do with a Bertrand Russell lecture when it was suggested that the Earth is not round but carried on the back of a giant tortoise which stands on turtles all the way down . |
| 10 | Many times the incompetent were described as being smart but lacking even an ounce of common sense . |