Example sentences of "but [noun] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be interesting and potentially lively to engage in maths or history or music in the midst of a project on ‘ Warwick Castle ’ ( say ) , or ‘ Myself ’ , or ‘ Transport ’ , but projects tend to contain inherent biases to one subject area or another . |
| 2 | But Doyle had forgotten another journey that Weaver would shortly be making . |
| 3 | But Chelsea have had promising kids before , so who has made all the difference ? |
| 4 | At fourteen his probation officer suggested he should be sent to borstal , but Gary managed to evade that fate . |
| 5 | All Nettwork artists seem to take the idea of ‘ sparse ’ to new and distant boundaries , but David has replaced those bleeps with a mutant robot voice ordering some lucky conscripts to report to the floor . |
| 6 | ‘ But Eleanor has lost all sense of the present . |
| 7 | But NEC has eschewed this approach . |
| 8 | This is not a new disclosure , but Summers has uncovered more evidence that has previously be revealed for Hoover 's long relationship with his sidekick Clyde Tolson , and has also unearthed stories of orgies and transvestism . |
| 9 | No one but Tutilo had had known cause to fear Aldhelm 's witness , and Tutilo , though abroad from the enclave that night , firmly denied any attack upon the young man , and small points were emerging to bear out his testimony . |
| 10 | But England have decided that century was all the evidence they needed to end speculation about their skipper 's future this summer . |
| 11 | But oxygen does perform one function that bring–benefit to all of life ; not when it is in its usual form , but when it takes the form of ozone . |
| 12 | The development of the Minuteman and Polaris missiles was deemed successful ; but Skybolt had failed successive tests , and was proving less reliable , less accurate and more costly than its rivals . |
| 13 | But Tepilit refused to accept any suggestions that he had not killed the man deliberately . |
| 14 | But visitors have reported intolerable conditions on many wards , patients locked up all day or even chained to walls as approved forms of correction . |
| 15 | After defeats in the junior singles , pairs and fours on Monday , the Swansea spotlight switched to the singles and triples , but Scotland failed to reach either final . |
| 16 | Andrew , England 's most capped fly-half with 50 , remains first-choice in the eyes of manager Geoff Cooke but Barnes has applied increasing pressure with a string of excellent displays , including last Saturday 's blinder for the Barbarians against Australia . |
| 17 | Barnsley survived fierce pressure but Boro struggled to create real scoring chances , though luck was against them at times . |
| 18 | A Brown try and Stabler conversion after the break brought a two-penalty reply from Coventry , but Stabler had added another penalty before Coventry finished with a converted try and a penalty . |
| 19 | But Mala had gone some way towards the opposite . |
| 20 | What used to happen was that rain would fall on land and permeate through the ground to the ground water levels , but urbanisation has meant more roads , houses , car parks and the water ca n't soak through , instead it goes into drains , is treated and then goes into the sea . |
| 21 | It has not been possible to assess the state of their health , but fishermen have advised marine biologists that the area contains very little food . |
| 22 | DARLINGTON Show made a loss of £11,000 last year but organisers have vowed this year 's event will go on . |
| 23 | Yesterday gunmen opened fire on a taxi queue , no one was injured but paramilitaries have said mass murder of catholics is their objective . |
| 24 | The working paper stated the need for " some affirmative action " for indigenous Malays or bumiputras , but Mahathir stressed creating equal opportunities through improved education and training , rather than the quota system of the NEP . |
| 25 | But Adam had taken that line and it had n't done him much good . |
| 26 | But Sara had set some spark of aggression alight in him . |
| 27 | But Huxley did envisage that selection acted on genes that had more than one effect on the form ( morphology ) of an animal , so that although the large body size would be adaptive , the extra large antlers were simply a consequence of prolonged growth . |
| 28 | Oh that 's nice but people keep knocking little bits off it . |
| 29 | and the final year I think there 's sort of less on the timetable but people tend to do more work for it and do a project as well but in the , in the first year erm you know it 's not that difficult to , to pass it erm er and there are always the , the , the referred papers in September so if you 're , if you 're keen |
| 30 | 250 They 've become accustomed What they 're forgetting is that this fits in with the stated local plan and with original proposals set out in 1989 which is n't so long ago but people tend to forget that sort of thing 328 |