Example sentences of "but [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judith Jones , his editor for the past 15 years , said Mr Hersey not only wrote , but fought for the rights of all authors and was active until the end . |
| 2 | This approach was taken by the Court of Appeal in the following case but failed on the facts in the House of Lords . |
| 3 | On one level it is yet another accident , and on a second level it is inevitable , it must be so because it belongs here and nowhere else , as the foreign restaurant bill belongs to a novel about human birds of passage , and as the whistle belongs to a novel , in fact the only late Dostoevsky novel , with no children in it but haunted by the toys of absent innocence and peace : the governor of ‘ our province ’ where these crazy terrible events take place was disappointed in love as a young man and consoled himself by making a paper theatre with curtains , actors , audience , orchestra , conductor — the lot . |
| 4 | In Roman times , of course , Naples and its sprawling suburbs did not exist , but clustered around the shores of the bay of Naples there were many small , thriving towns and ports . |
| 5 | Yes , the Safrane V6 is a big step in the right direction , but judged by the standards of Renault 's recent efforts , it could have been better . |
| 6 | But judged by the needs of the collectivity — whether the union or the wider community of working men and women — union education has a number of deficiencies : |
| 7 | The floor was covered with a black substance that looked like soot , but grated under the soles of her boots like sand . |
| 8 | The shabby buildings and trailing shadows on the covers of The Derelict Day match the spent , post-war mood of the poems which evoke a sense of waiting and desolate emptiness , of desire present but concealed beneath the surfaces of things . |
| 9 | On Jan. 24 , 1991 , he was sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted of torturing three people to death , but acquitted of the murders of the other five people . |
| 10 | The windows were black with night , but sheeted with the reflections of a thousand candles sparkling on ten thousand jewels . |
| 11 | The captaincy would sell for fifteen hundred pounds which was a good enough fortune for any young man contemplating marriage , but a majority would fetch two thousand six hundred pounds , and so d'Alembord , with some misgivings , but reassured by the prospects of a fine marriage portion , had agreed to Ford 's request . |
| 12 | He managed to stagger into the building , but died despite the efforts of staff and ambulancemen to save him . |
| 13 | He did not raise his eyes to Melanie but stared at the backs of his hands . |
| 14 | Throughout the nineteenth century , following Madame Clicquot 's inspired use of her kitchen table , wooden planks drilled with holes and supported on trestles were used for remuage , while some firms used similar planks but affixed to the walls of their cellars or caves . |
| 15 | Divisions among different groups of students were clear ; they were not a homogeneous group but differentiated along the lines of study area , social origins , gender and so on . |
| 16 | Endill was tired the next day but slept underneath the floorboards in History class . |
| 17 | Impliedly — when a leasehold property is conveyed into the name of one party , but purchased with the funds of two . |
| 18 | Ferreira went down 3-6 , 6-3 , 6-0 but raked in the greenbacks at an astonishing rate of more than $1,000 a minute . |
| 19 | Colchester only scored six points in the first set but held off the Nomads for more than 27 minutes thanks to solid defence . |
| 20 | The Emperor seemed unable or unwilling to even raise an army , but skulked behind the walls of Altdorf and dreamed of better days . |