Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] but [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a time when it would have been altogether too easy to disappear into the exacting but ultimately limiting routine of grammar-school teaching , Alfred Cobban enlivened and enlarged my interest in scholarly work . |
| 2 | Erm , we do know quite a lot about erm , why it is that when you diet you start to think about food all the time , and why it is that certain things happen , and I think that there 's more and more information and knowledge being gathered and yes , the na , the desire to change has to come from the individual but perhaps , having clinics available where people can go when they 're ready to change or where they can get help . |
| 3 | The fact that women have decided to participate in the difficult but just struggle of El Salvador has meant that they have developed politically and ideologically and that there have been many changes in men 's attitudes , After the triumph , I believe these changes will become more apparent . |
| 4 | In this context I want to refer to a brief but highly significant passage in Richards 's Practical Criticism . |
| 5 | The orphanage 's overriding function was not only to care for the destitute but also to protect society from dangerous children as there was a fear that roaming , unsupervised youngsters posed a threat to social order . |
| 6 | As a Ballyclare supporter I was not sure which fans to join in the final but thankfully I went to the South stand and found myself in the middle of the most friendly people I have ever met in my whole life . |
| 7 | They seem to rise in a brief but sometimes piercing crescendo from the area of the stairwell at Cumnor Place . |