Example sentences of "[n mass] but [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sucralfate ( 100–200 mg/kg given orally ) protected gastric mucosa against the ethanol , aspirin , and stress induced acute gastric lesions but the addition of bFGF ( 100 µg/kg subcutaneously or intragastrically ) failed to affect sucralfate induced protection against ethanol or aspirin but increased that against stress . |
| 2 | He writes little about the lifestyle of the people but lists many of their occupations . |
| 3 | He writes little about the lifestyle of the people but lists many of their occupations . |
| 4 | ( Automation , computer systems , and so on , should not have been introduced to reduce the number of staff but to free qualified staff to work directly with the library users . ) |
| 5 | The breadth of the food base is also seen in settled communities in the Malay Peninsula , where villagers may collect some wild fruit species but grow many in and around the village . |
| 6 | Prestige comes in the shape of a Mercedes with the 240D or ‘ Stuttgart Taxi ’ , commanding £7,000 but returning unfailing reliability . |
| 7 | On the foreign exchanges , the pound was a fraction down at $1.6020 but gained more than a pfennig to DM2.7760 . |
| 8 | Issues of training are raised by the authors of the three overview works in this series but permeate all the volumes concerned with specific areas of the curriculum or specific areas of special needs . |
| 9 | He had caught loads of carp but missed five takes from the cats . |