Example sentences of "[vb pp] but [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 2 | The Common Registration Act 1965 , established the Registers , and that no further registrations can be made but under the Common Land ( Rectification of Registers ) Act 1989 , there is a procedure by which certain land may be removed from the Registers of Common Land and Town and Village Greens . |
| 3 | Man is fallible , and his fallibility is shown not just in the manner in which the methods are used but in the belief-gathering methods available to him . |
| 4 | All ulcers in patients on omeprazole plus amoxicillin healed but in the triple treatment group four patients had residual peptic lesions after six weeks ( ulcer healing rate : 78.9% , p=0.11 ) . |
| 5 | Specific lessons were being taught and the abuse of wealth was being condemned but in the vast majority of ‘ social ’ films the message usually came wrapped in melodrama . |
| 6 | I think that clients , as it happens , have benefited but for the wrong reasons as it were . |
| 7 | The lobby has been operating even longer than MI5 and is almost as well known but unlike the secret service , the existence of the lobby has still not been officially acknowledged . |
| 8 | Exact beginnings are not clearly known but by the mid-thirteenth century Lübeck and Hamburg in Germany were co-operating together and soon other German towns were joining : Lüneburg , Wismar , Stralsund , Soest and Dortmund . |
| 9 | Ironically , Johnson 's lawless image endeared as much as it repelled. he was obviously a player who was easily unhinged but in the odd chemistry of Scotland 's footballing psyche , his recklessness made him a dangerous but likeable rogue . |
| 10 | This occurs because of local variations in soil properties ; on the upper part of the slope the soil may be truncated but on the lower slopes the soils are mixed with layers of various depths . |
| 11 | This means that the transaction is not recognized when cash is paid or received , nor when an invoice is received or issued but at the earlier point , when orders are issued or received . |
| 12 | She is able to eat and drink normally on the day she is admitted but on the following day is allowed nothing at all by mouth for 4 hours prior to surgery . |
| 13 | Cramlington seems to be still planned but in the inner city we are now very definitely after the planners . |
| 14 | Women politicians and government ministers are prone to remark that the family is the foundation-stone of society " and should be strengthened but at the same time realize , as Dra . |
| 15 | When people walk into an auditorium , one thing ought to happen and another ought not : their attention should be grabbed and held but at the same time they should n't fall flat on their faces because you 've failed to gaffer down a loose wire . |
| 16 | Variety of rhythm , pace , form and pattern support basic training in the technique of movement , which should be effortless , natural , harmonious , skilled and controlled but at the same time retain the unique quality which expresses personality . |