Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] but [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One cluster of characteristics ( personality type , language context , target language , interaction with the mother tongue , etc. ) may suit some but not others . |
| 2 | Rights of way are often played down by vendors and appear dormant but once negotiations have been legally completed , or work commences on site , are vigorously enforced by the beneficiary . |
| 3 | Many people heard that but only Cecilia seemed to have heard that first single clang as Ernest , her brother , in freeing the rope from the cleat , gave it a tug which caused the bell to spring upwards and fall again . |
| 4 | I 'm prepared to do that but unfortunately colleagues I 've forgotten . |
| 5 | And when relativity came , Newton 's equations were found wanting but not Maxwell 's ; they needed no relativistic correction . |
| 6 | After the war a series of anti-colonial , anti-settler , Kikuyu language newspapers existed that went mainly unchecked because the British colonial administrators knew Swahili but not Kikuyu . |