Example sentences of "[adj] but [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | A third possibility , at first unusual but slowly growing with time , was retirement in the modern sense , on a pension . |
| 4 | At this time her intravenous infusion was removed and she seemed more relaxed but still complained of pain from her wound . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Her tenants were poor but carefully selected in accordance with their apparent potential for self-improvement . |
| 8 | Utility underwear was strong and serviceable but totally lacking in glamour . |
| 9 | These tend to disappear as we grow older but occasionally persist into adulthood . |
| 10 | The best known of this nationalist group , finished in 1914 but not put into use until after the war , is Eliel Saarinen 's Helsinki . |
| 11 | Vegetarian meals are available but please order in advance . |
| 12 | Italy , for example , has avoided a military coup since 1945 but still has on average a new government every year . |
| 13 | Two caucasian Oxford residents with HLA-B53 but not exposed to malaria were tested as controls and neither responded to any peptide . |
| 14 | NORWICH v CHELSEA Norwich , unbeaten but yet to win at home , are unchanged for the seventh match in succession . |
| 15 | The suggestion was that the people of the area were outwardly smart but inwardly seared with pain : bleeding inside . |
| 16 | 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 . |