Example sentences of "but they [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they wasted a good position at to two to lose the next eight for runs , the North Down bowlers sharing the wickets evenly . |
| 2 | Aston Villa are having a great run , but they hold no particular horrors for the Norwich players . |
| 3 | Some of the recently introduced products , Itek 's PTW for example , do include full WYSIWYG and are menu rather than command driven but they sacrifice the raw power of products like TeX ( pronounced tech ) or JustText . |
| 4 | In the Devonian period the nautiloids were still abundant and varied , but they suffered a slow eclipse coincident with the rise of the ammonoids . |
| 5 | In themselves they were by no means new — they were indeed centuries old — but they constituted a direct challenge to the rather abstract and clear-cut penal theory which was much subscribed to on both sides of the Atlantic , and to this extent also reflected something of the atmosphere of the new age . |
| 6 | But they made a good offer . |
| 7 | But they made a great thing with the salt fish . |
| 8 | But they made a costly mistake in teaching their language to the hoipolloi . |
| 9 | Her favourite partner was her father ; neither of them could serve to save their lives and most of the balls ended up scattered on the lawn , but they made a handsome couple on the court . |
| 10 | The third K2 semi had Harbold/Newton of the USA 4th 50m from the line but they made an excellent recovery to pass Angyal/Petrovics ( Hungary ) and the Olssons of Sweden for 2nd place , 0.03 secs separating the three boats . |
| 11 | SYDNEY WOODERSON and Zola Budd did not have much in common but they knew a special achievement and a peculiar failure . |
| 12 | The oldest pieces of amber we have date from a hundred million years ago , a very long time after the conifers and the flying insects first appeared , but they contain a huge range of creatures , including representatives of all the major insect groups that we know today . |
| 13 | But they commanded a stronger sense of political direction and greater willingness to take an active part in the zemstvos than the more conservative majority . |
| 14 | The immediate cause of the split was the constitutional changes taking place in the Labour Party ; it was not that the Gang of Four and their sympathizers objected to reforms which improved internal party democracy , but they opposed the particular type of reform which was designed to strengthen the position of Left-wing elements in the Labour movement . |
| 15 | still there , but they finished the main building |
| 16 | But they had no low dose folic acid supplements . |
| 17 | Many of the imperial electors wished to be free from Staufen domination , but they had no constructive plans beyond this goal . |
| 18 | But they had no practical experience you see . |
| 19 | In supporting the king 's right to Aquitaine , the nobility were seeking to maintain his honour and his inheritance , but they had no personal interests there to safeguard . |
| 20 | ‘ Clearly the members of the UGC had some informal qualitative knowledge of the relative research strategies of different university departments , but they had no systematic evidence to support these views . |
| 21 | They did give me the name of the hospital Salome was in and the taller one told me that the accident had happened ‘ just off the M20 near Wrotham ’ , but they had no more details , they were just running errands for the Kent police . |
| 22 | They had a good night 's sleep but they had a tremendous job waking up this morning . |
| 23 | But they had a Tsarist treasure hidden there — that desk set . |
| 24 | But they had a new headmaster oh he 's just retired , he 's been there been there since Lynn was there when since she was since the er she 's twice that age so I mean he must have been there eighteen years but when he went there he 's er totally the school from the word go |
| 25 | But they had a tiring game on Sunday , energy reserves began to run low and the tourists hit back with tries from Taewa ( 2 ) , Leota and Kuiti . |
| 26 | But they had a joint bank mortgage on the bungalow . |
| 27 | There were those who promoted the idea much earlier , but they had a limited following . |
| 28 | Villains they might be , but they had a certain code of practice and the rule was that you looked after your own kind . |
| 29 | They were also mainly peasant economies , but they had a significant number of industrial enterprises ( many of which were the ancestors of today 's ‘ organizations of associated labour ’ ) . |
| 30 | But they had a lively fear that enclosure might rob them of their valuable rights — rights which made a real difference to their standard and their mode of living — in the interests of the large freeholders and a corporation known to be corrupt . |