Example sentences of "but [adv] [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somerset 's arrest in 1549 did not , as many expected , return the conservatives to power , but rather led to the primacy of John Dudley , Duke of Northumberland , who in alliance with Archbishop Cranmer eliminated the remaining conservatives from the council . |
| 2 | In an earlier definition , where pragmatics was restricted to encoded aspects of context , one could claim that the relevant aspects of context should not be specified in advance but rather discovered by a survey of the world 's languages . |
| 3 | The mass popularity of the movies did not come about because showmen gave no thought to individuating their audiences but rather resulted from an appreciation that the most important thing about the public as a whole was that every section and every group would respond to the appeal of the movies if it could be given access to the right kind of cinema . |
| 4 | It must be something of the sentiment that inspired the war poets , enduring indescribable ugliness — the mutilation and destruction of people and places amongst the fragile flowers that nature silently but abundantly proffered in the stench , decay and squalor of the trenches . |
| 5 | Yonge first stood for Parliament at Newport , Cornwall , in 1678 , but soon turned to the family seat of Honiton , where he was the leading proprietor . |
| 6 | Marseille 's dour defence — inspired by the belligerent Basile Boli — had been so assured , but finally succumbed in the face of the first really intelligent attack they had been forced to face . |
| 7 | The city argues that the mural was taken carefully from the wall , but somehow fell into the student 's hands . |
| 8 | It ai n't just her face being all bashed up and that — it 's the way she did n't say nothing , but just stared at the floor . |
| 9 | In 1973 Iraqi forces occupied Kuwaiti territory near the islands , but quickly withdrew in the face of widespread Arab disapproval . |
| 10 | It would seem obvious that at least some of those practitioners had not in fact vanished at all , but still existed at the time of the Crusades . |
| 11 | At first , he suspected her of trying to curry favour by pandering to his lust , but later came to the conclusion that it was genuine parental pride . |
| 12 | The coastal tribe probably called itself the Regini ( ‘ The Proud Ones ’ , but later Romanized to the Regni ) , with Bosham Harbour as its chief port , and was also probably an ally of Rome . |
| 13 | The group went round the course for month after month but wisely came to the conclusion yet again that they did not intend to alter the basis of the health service . |
| 14 | Most students , in fact , not only made a distinction between arts and science , but also believed in a hierarchy of different disciplines , with ‘ fundamental ’ , ‘ useful ’ subjects like physics at the top and ‘ wishy-washy ’ humanities subjects at the bottom . |
| 15 | To the east of the wall , we reached a kind of well , an ancient cistern partly constructed from masonry but also cut into the rock . |
| 16 | The seven which are relevant to Christ 's manhood are : belief in the Incarnation and Virgin birth ; that in Jesus God and man are united , begotten by God , born of Mary ; belief in " Cristes passion " that after Christ was taken down from the cross dead ( the deposition ) , he liberated those believers subject to death before he was born , a process known as the Harrowing of Hell ; that though he suffered mortality , he rose from the dead through the strength of God , and made this possible for all men ; that he ascended into heaven and was crowned higher than the angels ; that he will come at the end of time to judge the world and this will be the end of the era of redemption : These two sets of seven points about the Godhead and Christ delineate beliefs about the nature of life subject to a process of sickness and death but also filled with the potential for healing realised definitively in the life of Christ . |
| 17 | Our peers included our recent colleagues of yesterday in uniform and in the CID , but also took in the professor of psychiatry , the Home Office Drugs Branch official , the NHS executive , the sociologist , and the media hack . |
| 18 | Stewart made just one error with the gloves on a day of sweat and toil — failing to hold a difficult leg-side catch offered by Aravinda DeSilva on 74 off Devon Malcolm — but also impressed with the handling of his bowlers . |
| 19 | Stewart made just one error with the gloves on a day of sweat and toil — failing to hold a difficult leg-side catch offered by Aravinda DeSilva on 74 off Devon Malcolm — but also impressed with the handling of his bowlers . |
| 20 | The area close to the pond was owned by county councillor Peter Constable Maxwell and the Maxwell Family Trust , but the family generously not only made the land available at no charge , but also paid for the landscaping closest to the pond . |
| 21 | ‘ What you have here is a traditional account of Masai origins , but also mixed with the arrival of this woman — I am assuming , although it is not my business , the ethnographer , Claude Cohn-Casson — yes , okay , well , there was an incident during the war , a famous incident as far as the Masai is concerned , when a British official was killed in a very small dispute about cattle . |
| 22 | Our interpretation is that gas-phase HNO 3 has by that time been sequestered in the condensed phase by heterogeneous reactions on polar stratospheric cloud surfaces , forming nitric acid trihydrate as temperatures fell below 196K in winter It is probable that a substantial fraction of nitric acid has not only been lost from the gas phase , but also removed from the stratosphere by the growth and subsequent sedimentation of aerosol particles . |
| 23 | A ‘ European ’ car , for instance , would be designed and built in Britain for the local mass market , but also exported as a niche product to Japan and America . |
| 24 | He spoke of high levels of crime , and of violence perpetrated by the security forces against peaceful demonstrations , but also called for an end to " mindless violence " between township factions . |
| 25 | The Committee not only recommended statutory provision making all surrogacy agreements illegal and therefore unenforceable in the courts , but also called for the introduction of legislation rendering it a criminal act for any person to assist in the establishment of a surrogate pregnancy . |
| 26 | The sawdust and bran mixture not only provided a soft base on which to rest the corpse but also acted as a sponge for exuded matter ; the side lining masked the bare wood ; the side-sheets assisted in the presentation of the corpse ; and the frill along the visible top edge formed a seal when the lid was screwed down and helped to keep it all airtight . |
| 27 | This also resulted in a slight decrease in the number of word paths , but often resulted in the loss of the correct word . |
| 28 | They had been subdued in the Occupation years , but now went into the sixieme for a good time . |
| 29 | Fiercely hit as the shot was , Lukic appeared well positioned to deal with it , but strangely dived underneath the flight rather than extending his arms to meet it . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , Stevens , ’ he began with a false air of nonchalance , but then seemed at a loss how to continue . |