Example sentences of "[noun] but [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( This is how the story is recorded in Luke 13:6–9 , where the fig tree stood for the self-righteous people , such as the Pharisees , who made a great show of their religion but produced few results . |
| 2 | It has switched to the ‘ cost reimbursable form ’ , whereby the client bears the brunt of risks but has more say in how things are done . |
| 3 | It was not invincible in the show ring but won many championships . |
| 4 | He scored some great goals but missed some sitters . |
| 5 | Interviewed on television on Nov. 21 , the South Korean Defence Minister , Lee Jong-koo , said that the two sides had agreed on " considerably intensified measures " to halt the North 's nuclear programme but denied any plan to use military force . |
| 6 | ‘ The League has a duty to support and encourage every club but lending any club money is clearly outside its remit . ’ |
| 7 | He was a fervent high-churchman but abhorred any association between the high-church wing of the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church . |
| 8 | He had a brilliant technical mind but found little time for people . |
| 9 | Contrariwise , left sided lobectomy affects abstract words but has little effect on recall of concrete words ( Jones-Gotman and Milner , 1978 ) . |
| 10 | A wide variety of things could be construed as ‘ approaching ’ violence but to use that expression while condemning the violence of the previous day and to do so in a critique of Paisley while failing to mention the Cromac Square rioters is to exaggerate . |
| 11 | Both Athelstan and Cranston gripped the warm bowls and sipped at the rich stew which scalded their mouths and lips but put some warmth into their frozen bellies . |
| 12 | Powershift and semi-powershift transmissions allow clutchless shifting over entire gear range but absorb more engine power than conventional gearboxes . |
| 13 | The 20V8 shares the same architecture but has more input pins . |
| 14 | This reported in 1979 , recommending the removal of a tier ; the government responded , by eliminating areas but enlarging some districts , in 1982 . |
| 15 | The Boer War brought problems concerning children into greater prominence but forced little action from the government . |
| 16 | If necessary half-time your exercises to the music beat — slow exercises not only minimise the risk of incorrect positioning but take more effort to sustain ! |
| 17 | The Commonwealth Conference of March 1963 discussed the issue but showed little enthusiasm . |
| 18 | The mental scrutiny intensifies : Chris Smith warns against letting home-life become too cushy : ‘ learn how to be loving and gentle at home but flick another switch when playing cricket ’ . |
| 19 | This too , however , must be seen as a presentation of the lives of human beings , which is useful perhaps for taxation purposes but bears little resemblance to the real world . |
| 20 | Bad debts written off in previous years but recovered this year amounted to £1,740 . |
| 21 | Editor , — S Kinmond and others ' study of early versus late umbilical cord clamping shows an apparent improvement in outcome with a simple intervention but raises some questions . |
| 22 | NKr1,000 million to the " savings bank insurance fund " , and NKr4,500 million to a new " bank investment fund " to support banks not facing an acute crisis but needing more capital . |
| 23 | motorist admits to not seeing boy who came from opposite pavement but accepted that motorist had only limited opportunity for seeing him . |
| 24 | Country that is too dry for tropical forest but has enough rain to ward off desert contains scattered trees in a setting that is primarily grassland . |
| 25 | With some halls on campus and others off , you need to consider the pluses and minuses : the first eliminates travel time and expense but you may feel isolated from the wider community ; the second involves travel time and fares but provides more choice of shops and entertainment , with an escape from the enclosed campus . |
| 26 | He admitted taking his hand off the tiller at the group but denied any boardroom rift over strategy . |
| 27 | They had decided that they should not walk up the staircase to the throne room but find another route to approach their captors . |
| 28 | The poem was n't written to give a realistic account of war but to glorify those men who were killed in the war , to give some comfort to their friends and relatives . |
| 29 | The cell nucleus , so prominent in stained microscopical sections of tissues , often attracted chemical investigation but presented many difficulties . |
| 30 | The US company Du Pont acknowledged the same day that it had exported to Iraq a special lubricant used for nuclear weapons but stressed that permission to do so had been granted by the US government in 1989 . |