Example sentences of "[adj] but [prep] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She blamed Freddie and me for what went wrong but within two weeks she 'd died herself ; she had never recovered from the birth . ’ |
| 2 | Okun feels that the price set by Rawls on equality is too high but in this context he would be prepared to accept a 60 per cent leak Okun ( 1975 , p. 94 ) . |
| 3 | The two tasks are interrelated but in this book we separate them and look in this chapter at the first and most difficult task . |
| 4 | Rev Jim Caterer , vicar of Standish , said : ‘ I never say something is impossible but in this case I wish I could say just that . |
| 5 | ‘ Most of my sight had gone by the time I was five or six but at that age you seem to adjust without realising what 's happening , ’ Julia says . |
| 6 | He is likely to be very bright and to find learning easy but in many cases he will be coached and encouraged by a parent ( usually the father ) in that one direction so that he becomes a prodigy or a ‘ genius ’ at mathematics . |
| 7 | It 's designed to sleep two or three but on one occasion we had four adults sleeping inside . |
| 8 | It was hard — might possibly have been cruel but with most pupils it worked . |
| 9 | Yes I can appreciate that but at this moment I 'm not worried or bothered about any prosecutions in relation to this matter I 'm bothered about the ch the child 's er health . |
| 10 | ‘ The gaffer was ready to hammer us for that but after this result I asked , where are we going next Thursday — a nightclub ? |
| 11 | The Jet project is formally er continuing until the end of 1992 but in recent months we 've had some very great successes in Jet , the work we 've done is of very high quality and , and certainly world leading , and we can see the way ahead to building an experimental reactor after Jet but there are some very important experiments that need to be done before then . |
| 12 | that it was extremely good but in actual fact it went on until twenty to nine at night |
| 13 | It 's cheap , cheerful and trashy but on another level it 's a well focused snapshot of the time of social change , emancipation and free love . |
| 14 | It 's said the engine is the same as any injected 1.6 but in this car it feels torquier , much smoother , more eager and quieter , though this could be as a result of top-down wind roar . |
| 15 | Gordon Beck , spokesman for the Anthony Nolan Research Centre , said : ‘ The relationship between donor and patient is confidential but after 12 months we allow correspondence and we pass on messages from both sides . |
| 16 | Wicked but by that time we felt we deserved it . |
| 17 | I wonder if the , the director plans to talk about the cri criteria we will work towards with the independent erm living fund and I wonder if we could possibly accommodate something within the criteria because I think the number of people involved needing adaptation to their home over about five thousand is fairly small but for those people it will make the difference between them being able to remain in their own home or within the community care package , a vast sum of money being needed to be spent on them to accommodate them within residential accommodation . |
| 18 | When Pip finds out that Estella is to marry Drummle he is shocked but at this moment he is more devoted to Magwitch who will be hanged if he is caught . |
| 19 | The coming of the rains brought no physical relief to the besieged but in one respect it made things worse ; the smell from the decaying offal and from the corpses of men and animals became intolerable and hung constantly , undisturbed by wind , as a foul miasma over the fortifications . |
| 20 | The castle was believed to be impregnable but after seven days it was taken on 6 July and restored to Constantine de Born . |
| 21 | They 're faster and stronger but in other ways we 're as good as them |
| 22 | Pram-pushing 's slow but on fine days it 's a good place , full or larky boys . |
| 23 | Slightly convex with fleur-de-lys on a shield , the lettering is very ornate but after many hours I read it as AVE MARIA GRAVIA . |
| 24 | The fourteenth century is another country to the young but in any case I do n't like to make specific parallels with events in more recent times . |