Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] but [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only can up to four more engines be added to the complex but also the engines themselves can be replaced by more powerful versions . |
| 2 | The move south was now imperative in an attempt to contact Allied ships , and platoon areas for future operations were picked by the dubious but only available criteria : those towns in bold type on Bernard Callinan 's map were chosen as platoon centres . |
| 3 | The discussion covered police pay , seen as an important but potentially costly commitment , and the undesirability of a referendum on capital punishment ‘ because of its implications for other policy areas and the danger of undermining Parliamentary government ’ . |
| 4 | Just around the corner from Sion House they found a narrow five-story terraced house built in the 1840s but impeccably Georgian in every other respect . |
| 5 | I was met by a slow but very solid resistance moving down the far bank . |
| 6 | Cheery tombola social nights at local Labour Clubs were replaced by showings of Peter Watkins 's brilliant but heart-stopping antinuclear film , The War Game , which the BBC had commissioned in the 1960s but still wimpishly refused to screen . |
| 7 | In Halliday and Hasan 's model of cohesion , reference is used in a similar but more restricted way . |
| 8 | To some extent , SCI has a rival in the Futurebus+ architecture , also an IEEE standard , born in the 1970s but only now gaining recognition : both are set to hit the market at the same time . |
| 9 | Marks & Spencer 's British clothing business , despite its dependence on company-owned outlets and notwithstanding its sterling reputation , is based on a minimal but broadly appealing customer relationship . |
| 10 | Thus we have a proportion as low as 1.6 per cent of the age group studying in higher education in 1979 ( Gasper 1989 : 9 ) , compared to a higher but more vague ‘ less than five per cent ’ given by Ethridge in 1988 ( Ethridge 1988 : 193 ) . |
| 11 | A classic example of this attitude can be found in the small but highly profitable Taylor Walker-run chain J & W Nicholson . |
| 12 | His real name was Kim Song-ju but he adopted the alias of Kim Il Sung , derived from a courageous but possibly mythical guerrilla fighter against the Japanese between 1910 and 1930 . |
| 13 | The work for this group had been arranged on a large but highly specialised farm , which concentrated on growing bulbs , flowers and potatoes . |
| 14 | Now denuded of Tosh & Bunny Wailer , Marley was supported by the experienced but deliberately chanty female trio the I-Threes . |
| 15 | Of the two Roger Hiltons ( lots 44 and 45 ) , the higher price was achieved by the smaller but compositionally more coherent ‘ June 60 ( Red ) ’ , which made £13,500 ( $20,250 ; est. £6,000–9,000 ) . |
| 16 | This anomaly can be explained by a strong but short telemagmatic heating event , with coalification having preceded porosity loss of the reservoir rocks , and/or by fracture porosity gained through tectonic disturbance of the rocks . |
| 17 | Lee wondered why the barman tolerated him but when she looked towards the bar she saw that the barman seemed hypnotized by the antics of the pub 's female singer , not pleasantly , but as if he had been created permanently attached to a painful but essentially dependable puzzle . |