Example sentences of "[noun pl] but [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew that Constance dealt in other , ill-gotten , commodities on these trips but concurred in the popular , criminal view that nicking a lorryload of underwear was in a different class from stealing wedding rings from old ladies . |
| 2 | CHRIS O'BRIEN scored a fine hat-trick for Garston Woodcutters but finished on the losing side in an 8-3 defeat against Great Eastern in the South Merseyside MYA Junior League Under 11 division . |
| 3 | Audrey aspires to goals in both traditional and non-traditional domains but succeeds in the traditional domain only . |
| 4 | They were soon denounced to the authorities but escaped with the printed sheets up the Rhine to Worms , where the New Testament was published in 1526 . |
| 5 | Those in the know say that ‘ vibe ’ was a hippy term that disappeared in Dublin during the punk purges but resurfaced in the late Eighties when a town bathing in the warm glow of U2 's global ascendancy rediscovered its ( hippy ? ) roots . |
| 6 | This species is very similar to O. simulans but differs in the following respects : it appears to reach a much larger size ; the spinelets of the disk are less elaborate and have fewer points to the crown ; the shape of the oral shield differs and is depressed in O. aculeata ; the adoral shields are more wing-like and separate the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate ; the arm spines are less rugose particularly the proximal ventral spines ; and finally the ventral most arm spine is not so distinctly sabre shaped as in O. simulans . |
| 7 | While much economic theory ascribes the sustained economic growth of post-war decades to the liberalisation of trade and the lowering of tariff barriers through GATT negotiations , it seems far more likely that the real engine of growth has been credit-creation , begun by governments through the Marshall plan and other state-initiated measures but continued through the combined efforts at financial innovation of transnational corporations and banks in issuing tradeable commercial paper . |
| 8 | Her hair , which looked as if it had been inexpertly permed , was pulled back at the sides but frizzed over the high forehead in the poodle-like fashion of an Edwardian . |
| 9 | They needed to stop arguing about the content of his complaints but deal with the underlying feelings behind them . |
| 10 | The Southern Ocean is a broad , deep ring of water , contiguous with the southern Atlantic , Indian and Pacific oceans but bounded by the Antarctic Convergence ( p. 11 ) . |
| 11 | That night in the pub I did n't sit at the same table as the others but moved into the other bar with my pint and newspaper . |