Example sentences of "[adj] but [adv] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the tribunal had , for example , decided that it should be comprised of , inter alia , the need for certain fixtures and fittings , and then later ignored this but still invoked the phrase furnished tenancy , all the objections expressed to the separation of the sum from the parts would still apply . |
| 2 | Today 's Himalayan climbers must have immense strength and vitality , must acclimatise very carefully , should be fully skilled and experienced , must be alert to danger yet hardened enough not to be critically frightened ( and mountains are very frightening places ) by any unexpected trauma ; be patient during storms , determined in attack and wise in retreat ; be a skilful diplomat and a team player ; be compassionate but sometimes have a touch of selfishness . |
| 3 | A Dalton double take THE North-East 's first women MP was Ruth Dalton , elected in Bishop Auckland in 1929 but only to keep the seat warm for her old feller . |
| 4 | In Garland v Archer-Shee ( 1931 ) 15 TC 693 , it was held that if the foreign law governing the non-resident trust vested the property in the trustees with the beneficiary taking no interest in the trust property as such but only having the right to enforce the performance of the trust in equity then , contrary to the decision in Archer-Shee v Baker , the taxpayer would not receive income from the actual assets held by the trust but would receive income from a foreign possession . |
| 5 | Such people , in his and Val 's world , were not quite real but still walked the earth . |
| 6 | Other communities , less diagnostic but equally representing the tundra , occur in less optimal conditions . |
| 7 | The Milan Congress not only severely retarded the development of generations of deaf children for whom the Oral Method was totally inappropriate but also caused the loss of hundreds of teaching jobs held by deaf people throughout the world in schools for the deaf . |
| 8 | I will be very brief but just to welcome the fact that in we have been waiting for nearly fifty years |
| 9 | This list is by no means exhaustive but broadly covers the field . |
| 10 | The objection that Foucault neglects history because he does not attempt to give reasons why the epistemic shifts he describes occurred is perhaps inevitable but also begs the question : for conventional historiography has in general done nothing but account for such shifts — which has meant that it has consistently failed to recognize alterity and incommensurability in its insistent search for continuities with the past . |
| 11 | This is a good ploy to get the children to shout loud but then to contain the noise within the call . |
| 12 | You run an intersection , looking neither left nor right but simply slapping the gas and driving across . |
| 13 | At all ages , dog-whelks feed on discrete , easily identifiable , macroscopic sedentary prey ( upon which they remain for many hours or days ) which not only renders predator/prey investigations in the field possible but also facilitates the maintenance of these animals in aquaria . |
| 14 | MR MAJOR appealed to the nation last night not to turn its back on 13 years of Conservative rule as the latest opinion polls showed the Tories narrowing the gap with Labour but still facing the prospect of losing power . |
| 15 | He looked tired but nevertheless managed a smile as he caught sight of his two employees and walked over to join them . |
| 16 | SLIGHTLY tired but spiritually refreshed a group from Middlesbrough area returned at the end of October from a memorable series of visits . |
| 17 | The dialectic of the modern capitalist , or more precisely the modern mixed , economy , all but exclusively involves the role of government . |
| 18 | As a journalist having a career break I do get itchy fingers and long to turn out something that will look good but not cost the earth . |
| 19 | The most appealing aspect of The Smiths is their charisma — working class street boys made good but still retain an aura of mystery . |
| 20 | The PC-based IPA is now available but still needs a PC with an extended working memory of 4 Megabytes . |
| 21 | In addition there are conditions where the psychological component is only a small part of the story — it can make the symptoms worse but not initiate the illness . |
| 22 | Such hopes as there may have been — American , French , even Vietminh — of a cease-fire or negotiated settlement lingered on for several months but once the French had begun fighting they presented their case , modestly , that military operations were designed with no thought of reconquest but simply to persuade the Vietminh that they had no hope of victory . |
| 23 | Parkin looked worried but then snorted a laugh through his chiselled nose . |
| 24 | Right , what made we want to be , I wanted to be a policeman when I was very young but never had the courage to do it . |
| 25 | For feminists to see all men as ‘ potential rapists ’ is not only grossly simplistic but also denies the specificity of crime and criminal , as well as women 's own potential ( suppressed into depression , self-hatred , and inertia ) to be aggressive and violent , to abuse , batter , and murder — and to consume pornography . |
| 26 | He had been re-elected as a candidate of the successful Hungarian Democratic Forum ( MDF ) in 1990 but subsequently left the MDF . |