Example sentences of "[vb past] but [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A second shutdown of the 3B unit occurred but following investigation the unit was successfully returned to services . |
| 2 | Mitchell 's pass found Wright , who slipped but regained possession of the ball and squared it to the far post , where McGinlay was lying in wait to beat Nelson from inside the six-yard box . |
| 3 | Ceauşescu 's sensitivities in matters of art were hardly developed : as he was to show later in the planning of the enormous House of the People ( see chapter VIII below ) , he knew what he liked but had difficulty envisaging it , and tended to change his mind . |
| 4 | ‘ I feel sure that if the Corporation of Exeter had had the facts of the present case brought before them they would never have insisted upon the payment of a toll which they clearly would have had no right to insist on if the plaintiff had but claimed exemption upon landing the limestone . |
| 5 | The policy as expressed does not necessarily exclude development outside the area specified but directs development areas as a primary consideration . |