Example sentences of "[be] [adj] but [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it were not for the fact that he was one of the favourites you 'd have been delighted but as a Gold Cup winner I had to feel a bit disappointed . |
| 2 | As a colleague you 're deficient but as a neighbour you 're marvellous . |
| 3 | Tavett had been shaky but in the end unmoved : he added nothing and changed nothing of what he had said on Saturday . |
| 4 | Yet I must still think it my duty , without reconsidering whether or not it be worthwhile , to continue this plain record of what ( I know ) need not have been plain but for the accident that I am a niggler without impulse , not an imaginative artist . |
| 5 | ‘ At 2–0 I thought it was going to be easy but in the end it was n't easy at all , ’ admitted Charlton in his after-match press conference . |
| 6 | I could n't be certain but in the hubbub that followed ( shrieked squeaks and ‘ hahas ’ from the audience ) I thought I heard a definite mechanical ‘ click ’ , but when the stage lights came up again , nothing had happened . |
| 7 | Progress has been patchy but by the time of writing study on the following fields ( often requiring further compulsory elements or specific combinations of fields in addition to the general requirements of the course regulations ) carry agreed professional exemption or recognition for graduates : |
| 8 | They were brown but in the winter they turn white . |
| 9 | To begin with we were nervous but by the end we were making up silly situations and if we made mistakes everyone laughed . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It could have been nasty but in the end I think it was just case of exchanging insurance details , ’ said Insp Madison . |
| 11 | on site time- keeping and sickness is low but at the end of the day when it comes to the middle of May then she ai n't gon na get a sh she ai n't gon na be employed anyway to be quite honest , unless she pulls her finger out . |
| 12 | The place is empty but for the bar and three or four slightly-built lads shooting pool without words . |
| 13 | The difference is that Orton 's pastiche is comic but in a way which interrogates rather than presupposes the norm . |
| 14 | Some of my former colleagues would agree that my recent work is unhistorical but on the contrary condemn it for this — or rather they would condemn it did they not resort to the easier course of dismissing it as the gutterings of a senile mind . |
| 15 | you are the reason why I left the school , you know , none of the girls are happy by their upper sixth , in the lower sixth you might think it 's alright but by the time |
| 16 | It 's laughable but at the time it was n't laughable but when you think back , this man that I was put on with , he was acting guard foreman . |
| 17 | Well I I was eleven but by the time but I had a birthday , you see , er in the summer and er er well August actually and so when I started at Stowmarket I was twelve , you see , and er and er I was at Stowmarket School and scholarship for four years and er well I do n't know whether I really liked school , did you ? |
| 18 | He was good-looking but of the rough , hirsute kind . |
| 19 | The tide was high but on the turn , lapping sluggishly against the rocks at the river 's edge . |
| 20 | It was empty but for the Doctor , looking very smug , and the TARDIS . |
| 21 | Brian Stewart , chief executive of Scottish and Newcastle , said the Budget was wide-ranging but in the context of his own industry , the Chancellor 's decision to raise excise duty on beer flew in the face of commercial reality . |
| 22 | From its harsh too-shiny texture there was no doubt it was synthetic but from a distance it looked like a black cat 's pelt . |
| 23 | His hair was grey but with a trace of red hair remaining in his bushy eyebrows . |
| 24 | Carol 's kitchen was silent but for the hum of the refrigerator . |
| 25 | First he was angry , then he was surprised but in the end he became very excited . |