Example sentences of "[adj] but [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had tried to remain calm but still seethed with fury at Maude 's continued intransigence in the face of his pleadings and questions : her only answer would be to bite her lip , shake her head and turn away in floods of tears . |
| 2 | In a concession to Ecuadorean demands , Fujimori accepted Borja 's proposal , made at the UN General Assembly on Sept. 30 but then rejected by Peru , that the Vatican arbitrate the dispute , albeit at the request of the Rio de Janeiro protocol signatories . |
| 3 | They sat in the sitting room , now unusually warm but still filled with traces of Mrs Redburn , and drank coffee . |
| 4 | PEPIT will follow F&C 's investment philosophy : intelligent use of gearing and cautious but steady buying into quality during turbulent or depressed and gloomy markets . |
| 5 | A third possibility , at first unusual but slowly growing with time , was retirement in the modern sense , on a pension . |
| 6 | At this time her intravenous infusion was removed and she seemed more relaxed but still complained of pain from her wound . |
| 7 | The outside of the building is decorated in fine style , but the eye is drawn to the centre of the facade , to the ancient tower of the city commune , built in 1272 but later remodelled in Baroque style . |
| 8 | The result , it now appears , was that local administrators , with important defensive budgets to collect and administer , took advantage of the experience thus gained to develop their own powers in particular when , over a period of some decades , taxes originally levied for short periods came to be collected for longer and longer periods , until they became all but permanently established as part of the regular income of a town or city . |
| 9 | On April 12th , 1335 , an action of account is brought by the parishioners of Halling against John Heryng , late churchwarden , the case being adjourned to April 24th but not resummoned until June 2nd . |
| 10 | Her tenants were poor but carefully selected in accordance with their apparent potential for self-improvement . |
| 11 | Utility underwear was strong and serviceable but totally lacking in glamour . |
| 12 | These tend to disappear as we grow older but occasionally persist into adulthood . |
| 13 | The best known of this nationalist group , finished in 1914 but not put into use until after the war , is Eliel Saarinen 's Helsinki . |
| 14 | Vegetarian meals are available but please order in advance . |
| 15 | Now the reason for the five thousand reduction there is that there is traffic or there was traffic that previously er came up the A sixty one but then went along Follyfoot Road which is the road you 'll see on the plan which parallels the southern bypass , and that is why up that very short section er there was this reduction er which was heading for points to the east , which clearly went on then to the southern bypass . |
| 16 | She had forgotten the sidearm , which she had kept sand-free but not discharged in months . |
| 17 | It did not look enough but tight spells from John Carpenter , Phil Gill and Gary Pike put the pressure on and Leyland folded to 60 all out . |
| 18 | When normality for either group was not reasonable the corresponding test used was the Mann-Whitney , although this assumed that the shapes of the two underlying distributions ( for regulated and random ) were identical but possibly shifted in terms of the median . |
| 19 | Italy , for example , has avoided a military coup since 1945 but still has on average a new government every year . |
| 20 | Two caucasian Oxford residents with HLA-B53 but not exposed to malaria were tested as controls and neither responded to any peptide . |
| 21 | NORWICH v CHELSEA Norwich , unbeaten but yet to win at home , are unchanged for the seventh match in succession . |
| 22 | Kate Collingwood , who had read Modern Greats at Oxford and was well-known as a luminary of the Kelvedon Players , gave up her seat as a Labour county councillor , was appointed in November 1954 but eventually resigned in December 1957 . |
| 23 | The suggestion was that the people of the area were outwardly smart but inwardly seared with pain : bleeding inside . |
| 24 | These incentives had been suspended before Collor took office in March 1990 but reportedly reactivated in January 1991 . |
| 25 | Some of the major old herds still exist today , including the Welsh Dynevor ( now in southwest England ) , Scottish Cadzow , Staffordshire Chartley ( originally from the Welsh Lamphey herd and dispersed in 1905 but recently re-established in south and southeast England ) and the feral Northumberland Chillingham . |