Example sentences of "[noun sg] but [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the more bigoted supporters resented his corrosive friendship , the blue and the green frequently enjoyed nights out at Hampden Bowling Alley divided in the minds of Glasgow by religion but united in their common interest in Bacardi and blondes . |
| 2 | The sound remains the same when played back at half the speed but lasts for twice as long . |
| 3 | The footpath thereto , at first uneventful , soon mounts a small scar and passes alongside a wall bordering a tilted shelf covered by a scattering of boulders , unremarkable at a glance but having in their midst several amazingly perched on slender pedestals of limestone . |
| 4 | Always with resignation and with grief but buffered by the knowledge that he would no longer be in pain and confusion , by the fact that he 'd had a long and lively life — that he would be at peace at last . |
| 5 | Cagney was an authentic city man with impeccable East-Side Manhattan credentials ; he was born on the lower East Side but raised in Yorkville and he was fully conversant with the Irish , Italian , German , Scandinavian , and Jewish idioms of his native city but he was also a professional entertainer who graduated through vaudeville and song-and-dance routines to being a hard-boiled actor . |
| 6 | The pattern is clear on one side but worn on the other . |
| 7 | I feel it is our duty to try to get — I will not say on our side but to work with us — the section of Labour which is national and imperialistic ( Applause ) We have got to get on our side if we can , the section of Labour which recognises that for all classes , employers and employed , production is the one thing to be aimed at ( Applause ) , and that anything which is detrimental to that is detrimental to anybody . |
| 8 | Neighbours in Walford Road , Stoke Newington , said they did not hear any shooting but told of screaming and said the face of one of the men who was arrested was bloody and bruised . |
| 9 | The years were not numbered in a linear succession but according to a particular pharaoh 's reign , each mounting the throne in the year 1 , and also according to the levy of taxes . |
| 10 | But in the days immediately after the General Election defeat , Mr Smith not only launched his bid but got into an impregnable position thanks to his support from the big unions . |
| 11 | Yet she could see nothing in the future but hurt for both of them . |
| 12 | The two girls , it transpired , did not work in a cabaret but assisted at a gambling salon . |
| 13 | It frightens me how a child can be made of flesh and blood but decay to wood . |
| 14 | So I decided not to go to the Literary Club but to stay at home . |
| 15 | Attacked as irresponsible by the conservative opposition but welcomed by the Australian Council of Trade Unions which pledged to contain wage pressure , the programme marked a return towards the ALP 's traditional Keynesianism after years of economic liberalization and rationalization begun in 1983 when Keating was Treasurer under Hawke . |
| 16 | the department but working as a supervisor |
| 17 | It is compounded when several people are involved in the aggravated taking of a vehicle — my hon. Friend the Member for Meriden ( Mr. Mills ) said that such people were not content with being in a car but wanted to be in the boot as well — and by the speed and lethal power of the Cosworths and other vehicles which they steal . |
| 18 | In fact the United States was already tilting towards Israel in order to prevent its economic collapse but intending to ‘ progressively reduce the amount of economic aid to Israel , so as to bring it into impartial relationship to aid to others in the area ’ . |
| 19 | Once the virus is completely surrounded the spherical pit breaks off and reseals to leave the virus inside the cell but enclosed within a membrane coat . |
| 20 | L does not change on drawing but does from about 230 at draw ratio 5 to 460 at draw ratio 30 , p changing from 0.053 to 0.402 correspondingly . |
| 21 | He did not retire into a monastery but lived in Rangoon as a layman , under constant police surveillance . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Royal aides described her as being ‘ on good form ’ at the lunch and reception before the Garter ceremony but said at her age she decided it could be tiring to attend . |
| 24 | Research on the transnational corporations relies on no single methodology but borrows from comparative and cross-cultural research , for which there are long and varying traditions in the social sciences . |
| 25 | The therapist thought the overdose was not a serious suicidal attempt but appeared to be an impulsive act to escape from her feelings of loneliness and worry about the shop . |
| 26 | The Law Commissions of England and Scotland in their joint Report on the Interpretation of Statutes in 1969 and the Renton Committee on the Preparation of Legislation both recognised that there was much to be said in principle for relaxing the rule but advised against a relaxation at present on the same practical grounds as are reflected in the authorities . |
| 27 | By another of the technical innovations or borrowings which mark the art of this time , terracotta figurines and heads are no longer generally made freely by hand or turned on the wheel but pressed into moulds . |
| 28 | The connecting trench was constantly full of water now , and because the firing-step was in danger of crumbling there was no alternative for someone who wanted to visit the other wheel but to wade through water and mud . |
| 29 | They knew that the village police sergeant and constable were there not only to deal with ordinary crime but to report on any political activity in their district . |
| 30 | Among names that immediately spring to mind are those of Sydney Schanberg , the former New York Times correspondent who was in Phnom Penh at the time of the fall , and whose subsequent search for his Cambodian assistant , Dith Pran , was documented in Roland Joffé 's film The Killing Fields , who arrived in Indo- China at the age of 21 and was there from 1970 to mid-1975 , first with Agence France Presse , then as a stringer for The Sunday Times — when all the other journalists were getting out , Swain was either brave or foolhardy enough to fly back into Phnom Penh in time for its fall ; William Shawcross who , along with many others , covered the Vietnam war for The Sunday Times and who subsequently became obsessed with the fate of Cambodia , an obsession that resulted first in Sideshow , which exposed the role of Nixon and Kissinger , and then in The Quality of Mercy , a study of the work of the Red Cross in Cambodia ; John Pilger , the British-based Australian journalist whose work on Cambodia may have had little concrete effect but has at least helped to ensure that the tragic country will never disappear into oblivion ; Philip Caputo , who went initially to Vietnam in March 1965 as a 23-year-old Marine officer with the first US combat group sent to Indo-China and returned in 1975 as a correspondent to report on what was left of the war . |