Example sentences of "[adj] but [adv] [vb past] [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 Such people , in his and Val 's world , were not quite real but still walked the earth .
3 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 .
4 SLIGHTLY tired but spiritually refreshed a group from Middlesbrough area returned at the end of October from a memorable series of visits .
5 Parkin looked worried but then snorted a laugh through his chiselled nose .
6 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 .
7 He had been re-elected as a candidate of the successful Hungarian Democratic Forum ( MDF ) in 1990 but subsequently left the MDF .
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