Example sentences of "but [verb] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The habit of using > as inverted commas is irritating , but goes with the general tone of the book . |
| 2 | But review by the High Court of decisions of tribunals is a common feature of many other tribunals . |
| 3 | The name comes from the old Norse word meaning ‘ to gush ’ and was not only given to the township nearby , but got into the English language as a descriptive name for any jet of water . |
| 4 | The poster at the end of the tunnel was so large and so perfectly lit that it seemed to O , looking up at it suddenly , that the tunnel did not end in a wall , in fact did not end at all , but led to the green fields of France . |
| 5 | We used to visit Toftingall frequently , not only to fish , but to delight in the wide variety of bird life that called the loch home . |
| 6 | The case concerned the wife of a civil servant who worked in Northern Ireland but lived in the Irish Republic . |
| 7 | Try as she might , Rory could n't help but giggle at the ridiculous picture that conjured up in her mind 's eye . |
| 8 | For many years , tram and bus crews operated as separate entities , but to cope with the seasonal demand for drivers , bus crews worked overtime on trams . |
| 9 | All three are part of one pattern , defined by Christ , but experienced within the penitential life of the meditator : no resurrection without death , no joy without sorrow , no feeling of the presence of love without sometimes consciousness of its absence , and all three comings relate to an overcoming of sin . |
| 10 | They slowed to give themselves a respite but realized in the succeeding moment that they had run into a dead end . |
| 11 | But depending upon the particular disorder focused on there are varying bodies of evidence as to the efficacy of Cognitive–Behaviour Therapy for that problem . |
| 12 | It seems that they are not gods exactly , but made of the same stuff as gods . |
| 13 | But sticking with the Conservative establishment may mean that the CPS loses its claim to radicalism . |
| 14 | He deserves his reputation for radicalism — he has the softness of a cerebral bop guitarist like Jim Hall but coupled with the sudden fire of Jimmy Hendrix . |
| 15 | He said he did not want to involve British troops and planes in action , but admitted for the first time that it was a possibility . |
| 16 | This species is very similar to O. simulans but differs in the following respects : it appears to reach a much larger size ; the spinelets of the disk are less elaborate and have fewer points to the crown ; the shape of the oral shield differs and is depressed in O. aculeata ; the adoral shields are more wing-like and separate the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate ; the arm spines are less rugose particularly the proximal ventral spines ; and finally the ventral most arm spine is not so distinctly sabre shaped as in O. simulans . |
| 17 | This case is similar to that of Wright et al in that none of the intestinal tissue provided morphological evidence of lymphoma but differs in the unusual finding of a high grade lymphoma in the pleural lesion . |
| 18 | In the Atlantic O. dominans bears closet affinity with O. fasciculata Lyman , 1883 , found off St. Kitts , Leeward Is ( Fig. 29 ) but differs by the following characters ; the plates of the disk are much larger and fewer in number than in O. fasciculata ; the oral shield is irregular or hourglass in shape , not arrowhead shaped as in O. fasciculata , finally the shape of the tentacle scales simple and spine-like in O. dominans but leaf-like or with a broad base and an acute tip in O. fasciculata . |
| 19 | Mr Brind and other journalists sought judicial review to challenge the directives , but failed before the Divisional Court [ Guardian Law Report : May 27 , 1989 ] . |
| 20 | Mona and Charity exchanged expressions of incomprehension but pounced on the only word they could understand . |
| 21 | PAV stressed its commitment to extensive devolution of powers from the federal to the republican governments , but argued for the federal government to retain strong powers for the economic good of the country and to maintain Czech-Slovak co-operation . |
| 22 | The Face runs on a shoestring but sits on the same shelf as Vogue and Vanity Fair , the shiny starships of megalomedia , and it is usually better looking , nearly always a better read . |
| 23 | Bufi 's " government of national stability " was announced on June 12 , including PLA members but incorporating for the first time the DP as well as the Republican Party , the Social Democratic Party and the Agrarian Party ; nine members were non-party . |
| 24 | But knocking on the second door she came to was n't as easy as it sounded . |
| 25 | Add a word that begins with a different letter but rhymes with the first word . |
| 26 | Add a word that begins with a different letter but rhymes with the first word . |
| 27 | Najibullah 's offer was welcomed by the Pakistan government but spurned by the hardline mujaheddin groups . |
| 28 | Rhinoceros horns , in reality agglutinated masses of hair , are not attached directly to the skull but grow from the tough hide . |
| 29 | The three Portuguese pharmaceutical wholesalers acquired in the first half of 1992 made their first contribution , but disposing of the nappy-making business cost UniChem £2.4 million below the line . |
| 30 | Having seen all of this , Stoker , they say , told Irving he wished not only to administer Irving 's theatrical affairs , but to write for the great man . |