Example sentences of "[vb pp] but [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under Communist rule , as with other religions , services were permitted but no cultural or educational activities . |
| 2 | Various linguistic alternatives were permitted but the Greek Kyrie and Latin Gloria were generally retained . |
| 3 | If the performance were costed , the assumption that the retirement pension is not earned but an unreciprocated gift from the employed to the non-employed would be found to be untenable . |
| 4 | Surveys of technical and marketing journals and reports will be included but a major contribution will be derived from interviews with personnel from participating firms . |
| 5 | The wind had dropped but the still air winced with frost . |
| 6 | No it 's from the , it 's from the other old budget , I mean it 's the cos it 's b all been rejigged but the overall impact is that Ma Mark has got six vacancies . |
| 7 | For complex operations steps may be added but the basic steps are : |
| 8 | Various associations with HLA-DR specificities have been reported but no consistent pattern has emerged , except for the positive association with DR4 in three Japanese studies . |
| 9 | Suitable buildings are being considered but no final agreement has been reached at the time of going to press . |
| 10 | Problems could be surmounted but the American delegation would have to show a far more positive attitude than hitherto revealed . |
| 11 | They had searched but the only money they had found was two and eightpence in Mrs Cullam 's handbag , a white plastic handbag with black grease in its creases . |
| 12 | Power steering is now standard , but it does nothing to blunt the feedback coming from front wheels to steering wheel : the old wrist-snapping kickback over bumps is largely eradicated but the important messages are translated as crisply as ever . |
| 13 | This node fires if the two ends are illuminated but the central one is not . |
| 14 | The church of The Chimes is not named but the original illustrations to that book show the belfry of Shaw 's building . |
| 15 | The third form is ‘ part process ’ in which not only is head office administration spatially separated but the actual production process is split up into discrete bits which are carried out at different spatial locations . |
| 16 | But it 's on a hill in the , in the , in the , it 's a long way down from there to walk and , and if I remember rightly it was on the outside of the hotel , on a bank and that to me means that erm if we had had some weather , which we had at that time , then the roots could have suffered but the other clue I think is that erm it comes into leaf first and it drops its leaves first in the autumn so maybe it 's a different tree than the other , different variety , because there are several horse chestnuts are n't there ? |
| 17 | This offer has been gratefully accepted but a suitable site for the van will eventually have to be found . |
| 18 | Weasel Eyes looked as if he had n't moved but the other two hypocrites must have dined well for they were slouched , half-asleep , in their high-backed chairs . |
| 19 | I , of course , at the sharp end felt but a slight tremor and my concern was with the loss of lateral control and my instrument panel disintegrating in front of me . |
| 20 | Obviously costs have also risen but the current success is seen as a justification of the GCR 's policy of using large main line engines and a heavy investment in marketing and public relations . |
| 21 | Imports are cheaper to consumers and hence a rise in the volume of imports is to be expected , as the cost of the goods excluding the tariff has risen but the domestic price of the goods including the CET has fallen . |
| 22 | ‘ I should have phoned but the last few days have been so hectic that I did n't have time , ’ Claudia said as she gave Myra a brief account of finding Dana . |
| 23 | But in that case , why could they not have called in the authorities and have the other fellows cleared out ? — only this would have made but a tame end to the story . |
| 24 | As the Japanese are at present constituted , accidents to life and limb would most certainly occur if trains made but a brief halt to entrain passengers . |
| 25 | Nobody knows exactly when the first sparkling Champagne was made but the famous Benedictine monk from the abbey of Hautvillers certainly was a crucial figure in its early development . |
| 26 | Had we emphasized not the choices made but the social rules followed by social actors , then a more collective account of social action would have emerged . |
| 27 | We could n't hear what was being said but the large man was bending over Bogie 's table and poking him in the chest . |
| 28 | No weapons were to be seen but a good many shepherds ' crooks and plenty of rough sticks cut from birch or alder . |
| 29 | Have you seen but a white lily grow before rude hands had touched it ? |
| 30 | Now , of course , there was nothing to be heard at all , nothing to be seen but the sudden , wheeling pallor of one more set of headlights taking the curve in the Silcaster road , far beyond Aurae Phiala . |