Example sentences of "[noun sg] but [prep] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The formal discipline can sometimes tidy up muddled thinking but at other times it can interfere with the creatively developing interaction between trainer and trainee . |
| 2 | The Citroen BX has long been Britain 's most popular diesel-engined car but in recent months it has been overtaken by another model from the same French stable the ZX . |
| 3 | The central cable is a good one to start with and will lift a plain stocking stitch sweater but with little effort you can work two small cables to the left and right of centre and make the pattern even more interesting , especially for a ‘ V ’ neck sweater . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm not saying Eddie 's incapable of violence but in this case I think you 're on the wrong track . |
| 5 | It 's impossible to say if this element affected the Asian research scientist 's vote but in General Elections it is the issues , usually , which dominate . |
| 6 | There was other stuff in similar vein but by this time I had my hand on the Yale latch and was opening the door . |
| 7 | The task of bringing up children is tough for any parent but for one man it 's particularly difficult . |
| 8 | The relevant statute empowered the minister to set up such a committee but in this case he refused to do so on the ground that the complaint was unsuitable for investigation because it raised wide issues ; that if the committee upheld the complaint he would be expected to make an order to give effect to the committee 's recommendations ; and that the complaint should be dealt with by the Board rather than by the committee of investigation . |
| 9 | Some people have notions of using the technology as an ambitious static analysis machine but in most cases it simply presents more data than anybody needs and will have to be restrained . |
| 10 | My Mam was ‘ the boss ’ at home but outside that house she was merely a wife and mother , never a person in her own right . |
| 11 | Judge David told them , their lives had been devoted to the relief of pain and suffering but in this case they chose to inflict considerable pain on a young woman in their care , isolated by their way of life . |
| 12 | I 'm confident we 'll get something from the match but at this stage I 'm not saying we 're going to win it . |
| 13 | The people of Lewis do not always present a sympathetic profile but in this case they had my sympathy and for two reasons . |
| 14 | Again it is generally definable only through social custom but in this case it has more significance since the breaking of social taboo may have adverse effect on the child . |
| 15 | In particular circumstances a director may owe a duty directly to shareholders ; that duty will not derive from his status as a director but from particular responsibilities he has voluntarily taken on . |
| 16 | You may as well sleep under a hedge or in a doorway , and get arrested for being a vagrant , and get put in jail where you 'll be treated like muck but at any rate it 'll be warm and you 'll be made to have a bath . |
| 17 | He is one of the finest strikers so I suppose you ca n't totally blame the defence but by this time I thought we were in for a beating . |
| 18 | Originally , he was on a six-month contract but despite disappointing results he was able to re-negotiate his contract . |
| 19 | She accepted the fact that she was probably ready for further responsibility but at that stage she had no idea what the responsibilities would be . |
| 20 | If in the year in which the benefit is given to the taxpayer the amount of the relevant income is less than the amount of the benefit then the individual is only taxed on the amount of the relevant income but in subsequent years he can be further charged if there is further relevant income but never in excess of the amount of the benefit ( s740(2) ) . |
| 21 | He glanced at Nina for support but by this time she was staring at the ground . |
| 22 | In commercial terms that 's like committing suicide but in artistic terms it 's been much more fulfilling . ’ |
| 23 | If you were to use a DOS word processor as well as a DOS spreadsheet in the Windows environment then you can use the same method but in this case you would have to use the Edit , Paste command in the Windows Control menu box . |
| 24 | In reality Roland had been killed in a Basque ambush at the Pass of Roncesvaux but in twelfth-century legend he died gloriously , fighting for Christendom in the great war against the infidel . |
| 25 | Now it does n't have to necessarily be the same subject but in some way it 's a repeated measures , that 's where you . |
| 26 | This indicates that acinar cells in pancreatitis retain their responsiveness to direct secretory stimulation but for some reasons they become ‘ resistant ’ to the stimulation in vivo . |
| 27 | It too was cast in copper but at 18 kg it was too heavy to cast by inverting a joined mould and crucible . |
| 28 | At low tide you can cross the bays on the beach but at high tide you have to go inland , a lot further round so timing is important — we got it wrong once or twice ! |
| 29 | Yes erm because I doubt it , erm at the moment with the fund that we 're talking about the erm the close scheme , because most of these people in B T were originally erm in the Post Office , and of course when the they split erm then the erm Post Office workers went over to B T , they get a B T pension but in actual fact they paid into a pension scheme erm for many of them for forty years because they come into that age group , where so many people , you took a job when you were twenty o or or sixteen and you stayed with it for life , you did n't chop and change like people do these days and the majority of our members erm we can go down and I would say the vast majority of our members have actually worked for the Post Office or starting with the Post Office and then B T or staying with the Post Office for forty years , there 's no end of them they 've got in there forty years service . |
| 30 | It 's been two years in the studio but in that time we 've probably only spent four months recording . ’ |