Example sentences of "but [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither side was prepared to comment on the suggestion , but given IBM 's surplus manufacturing capacity , such a deal would be good sense . |
| 2 | Neither side was prepared to comment on the suggestion , but given IBM 's surplus manufacturing capacity , such a deal would be good sense . |
| 3 | The bulge I swung beneath on pitch six of the Cavales West Ridge was one of those , I swear — but given V in the guide ! |
| 4 | Without the foreign exchange , and with continuing but hidden US subversion , Lacidar 's government could not maintain the social reform programme . |
| 5 | Getting started on the groove is tricky , then good but spaced holds lead up and left to more exposed rock . |
| 6 | But seen face to face , even in the informality of her own house , the absence of a spark of sexuality and , he sensed , a deep-seated reserve , made her seem less feminine and more formidable than he had expected , and she held herself stiffly as if repelling invaders of her personal space . |
| 7 | A new series but called Grace and Favour at eight . |
| 8 | But assessed differences in the abilities of students at college admission are notoriously unreliable predictors to performance because so much depends on personality , on character and on " intelligence in action " — that is , the active use to which students put their intellectual capacities . |
| 9 | He enjoyed a good relationship with the corporation and particularly its able engineer , James Newlands , but encountered difficulties with the select vestry ( responsible for poor-law institutions ) , particularly during the years when epidemics of typhus ( 1847 ) and cholera ( 1849 , 1854 ) ravaged the town . |
| 10 | Franny Lee has the Ladbrokes Ayr Gold Cup planned for Crystal Jack , but Gone Savage returns to Sandown . |
| 11 | Surely if Portia really cared for him , she would not have left romantically with Bassanio thus leaving Antonio alone , but taken Antonio with them . |
| 12 | The establishment of the ‘ People 's Democracies ’ not only changed the social map of Europe but promoted Socialism 's prospects elsewhere . |
| 13 | Above , a gibbous moon fought a brave but doomed battle to be seen through the scudding cloud , occasionally emerging to spill its light like a bucket of whitewash over the slates . |
| 14 | Is his work , to put it at its bluntest , a throwback to an age long past , a magnificent but doomed attempt to breathe life into fossils ? |
| 15 | A number of US companies have been discussing the possibility of a sale with Piper , which has all but stopped production because of cash flow problems . |
| 16 | In India Bikash Sinha had all but forgotten Chatterjee 's remarks , when on 24 March 1989 he first heard the reports from Utah claiming that Fleischmann and Pons had performed fusion in a test tube . |
| 17 | Some have taken the view that the increasing centralisation of policy control by government , and the devolution of responsibility to schools and colleges , accompanied by a range of alternative provision such as grant-maintained schools and city technology colleges , has all but made LEAs redundant . |
| 18 | To their credit , they 've all but ditched RDF 's cringeworthy word polemics , giving a greater role to singer Linda Goodman and infusing almost all their songs with a wealth of nightmarish samples . |
| 19 | Do not fall , either , for the argument that America must have the oil underneath the refuge to reduce its dependence on foreign oil — at a time when , despite the greenhouse effect , the American government has all but abandoned incentives for energy efficiency and has repeatedly bowed to Detroit 's absurd demand that it relax its drive for fuel-efficient car engines . |
| 20 | The roads were all but deserted south of London . |