Example sentences of "[vb pp] but [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Valerie is still hopeful that she 'll be able to get the school reopened but at the moment it looks as if this is as close as these children will get to being at Brockweir School . |
| 2 | New figures show just 119 of the 15,767 properties controlled by the council , less than one per cent , fit to be let but without a tenant . |
| 3 | They decline to be interviewed but in a statement to us said , this year , productivity has increased while the accident rate has fallen . |
| 4 | JILL HUNTER goes into the World Cross Country Championships on Saturday with her Olympic team place already booked but with a psychological hurdle to clear . |
| 5 | The door did not lead into the shop as Wycliffe had expected but into a minute hall with the shop door on the right , and stairs leading up . |
| 6 | At Hampton Ferry the Saturday match was cancelled but with a milder day the Sunday event was still going ahead Saturday night . |
| 7 | His head was shaven but for a topknot . |
| 8 | Juvenile Court proceedings can be reported but under no circumstances may any child involved in the proceedings be identified . |
| 9 | Yet each in his own way sincerely struggled to impose order on a country where Lowlander and Highlander rarely met in friendship , and could rarely communicate in the same tongue ; where there was the continual threat of another English excuse for invasion , often abetted by self-seeking elements within the kingdom itself ; and where arrogant noblemen prolonged family feuds disruptive not merely to the families conceded but to the governance of the kingdom itself . |
| 10 | That philosophy requires tests that have not been done before in the US , and that may never have been done but for the consortium 's help . |
| 11 | How often do you dump a file on someone 's desk with a Post-it note on it saying ‘ do this ’ and get it back — okay — competently done but with no knowledge how it might have disrupted that person 's other work or even if they liked doing it enough to want to do more ? |
| 12 | In some ways I remain permanently a diplomat , allegedly detached but with a tendency to go native , which , of course , is what I did here . |
| 13 | Not in any way connected but of no less interest and speculation are a few cup stones . |
| 14 | Transactions in liabilities ( capital inflows ) have also grown but in a much more irregular fashion . |
| 15 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 16 | So that it is a matter most essential to the liberties of this kingdom , that such members be delegated to this important trust , as are most eminent for their probity , their fortitude , and their knowledge ; for it was a known apophthegm of the great lord treasurer Burleigh , ‘ that England could never be ruined but by a Parliament ’ … |
| 17 | The important distinction between both dollar markets lies not in the nature of deposits or types of loan granted but in the fact that euro-dollar banking is not subject to US domestic banking regulations . |
| 18 | The Common Registration Act 1965 , established the Registers , and that no further registrations can be made but under the Common Land ( Rectification of Registers ) Act 1989 , there is a procedure by which certain land may be removed from the Registers of Common Land and Town and Village Greens . |
| 19 | " [ There is ] little to be said but in the way of commendation . |
| 20 | For example , the real spending of a department or service might be the same under whatever system of accounting is adopted but in a given year , using cash accounting , the cash payments could be postponed by as little as 24 hours so that the accounts record a lower figure . |
| 21 | But your Major alas … ’ ‘ … while we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen : for the things which are seen are temporal ; but the things which are not seen are eternal … ’ |
| 22 | At least the Bank of Japan , like the Fed but unlike the Bank of England , has felt free to cut its rates . |
| 23 | This is because it does not depend on the source from which the language as an object is drawn but on the learners ' engagement with it . |
| 24 | She had quite expected him to stop the car on the way home and make a grab at her and she was all prepared to cope with it , had her little speech ready about what a wonderful evening she 'd had but at the moment she was concentrating on her career and did n't really want to waste time on that kind of thing . |
| 25 | It must be described not with the fierce barely pronounceable scientific tags so far used but with a simple name that describes both its function and general make-up with sufficient clarity to distinguish it from anything else . |
| 26 | The difference between mental health and mental ill-health is not in whether or not defences are used but in the flexibility or rigidity with which they are employed and in the mix between them , as opposed to the over-use of one defence rather than others . |
| 27 | Man is fallible , and his fallibility is shown not just in the manner in which the methods are used but in the belief-gathering methods available to him . |
| 28 | Earlier material may be shown but at the discretion of the school . |
| 29 | Erm and the car just broke up in half and that was , that had been er welded but like the police are saying as well as soon as they sort of get wise to what they 're doing and they find a way to er you know , get on to them , they devised something else . |
| 30 | All ulcers in patients on omeprazole plus amoxicillin healed but in the triple treatment group four patients had residual peptic lesions after six weeks ( ulcer healing rate : 78.9% , p=0.11 ) . |