Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] but the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stamps got intercepted but the watch |
| 2 | The glass canopy , dating from when the property was used as a garage , and the existing facade would remain intact but the building behind would be demolished and rebuilt . |
| 3 | The wetness of the rags does not accomplish much but the wood gets heated and the rags may insulate the hot wood and prevent it from cooling too quickly . |
| 4 | The implications of these terms are considered later but the use of terminology in this study text needs to be made clear at the outset . |
| 5 | British Telecom has 70,000 but the Post Office only 28,500 on the road , with 30,000 fork-lift trucks and other runabouts used only in sorting offices . |
| 6 | However , it is important to note and counter the limitations of mainstream approaches to management training , with their top-down assumptions , their tendency to exclude all but the head and senior staff , and their focus on strategies at the expense of educational purposes . |
| 7 | A 200 per cent increase looks huge but the base on which it is calculated may be small . |
| 8 | She had seen little but the outline of him , and the walk , which was individual enough to be remembered , once seen ; rapid and vehement , with a long stride that barely lit upon the earth before leaving it again as vigorously . |
| 9 | At first sight , the filter circuit may appear conventional but the presence of the diode D1 is unconventional and it seems as though it is going to be switched off all the time anyway , the anode ( a ) always being at zero potential . |
| 10 | Both scored 24 but the rest of the night belonged exclusively to North and more specifically pace bowlers Alan Donnelly and Simon Corlett . |
| 11 | Lord Wilberforce sought to rebut this but the request clearly , in the minds of some , showed that the court was not independent or impartial . |
| 12 | You may not realize this but the name ‘ Grand Canyon ’ was actually one developed by DisneyWorld who own and run the place . |
| 13 | The world grows old but the Bastard Boy keeps his perfection . |
| 14 | Squid also inhabit deep water where the problem is not reflected light but the absence of light . |
| 15 | He makes it sound simple but the success speaks for itself . |
| 16 | ‘ We 're delighted that Dunlop have got involved but the tournament would have taken place no matter what . |
| 17 | Melissa made herself sound casual but the curiosity that Lou 's call had aroused was breaking through her lethargy . |
| 18 | For example , a drunken woman was brought into the station one night after assaulting a policewoman and using very abusive language , something to be expected from gougers , but was allowed home uncharged after spending a night in the cells : she was even allowed to leave early enough in the morning to avoid all but the milkman from seeing her arrive home in a police vehicle . |
| 19 | This may sound complicated but the argument is very similar to that which Victor Turner employs when he comments on the liminality , or " betwixt and between " status , of persons who are engaged in any ritual process . " |
| 20 | There are similar provisions in the County Court Funds ( Amendment ) Rules 1983 but the transfer to deposit will be after 14 days . |
| 21 | I wo n't bore you with the details of what happened next but the exercise was over and so was ‘ Daz 's ’ participation in the lesson . |
| 22 | The proceedings seem bizarre but the Church was not inconsistent . |
| 23 | Lloyd made 52 but the rest of the batting disappointed , and , with rain reducing the game to fifty overs each , West Indies managed only 179 . |
| 24 | They were all getting noisy but the cake had to be delayed until Mr Hogan returned from the shop . |
| 25 | This time Orme finished third but the surprise packet of the race was Mick Lofthouse who was in the lead for a large part of the four laps before having to take second place to Dunlop . |
| 26 | One or two cars driving too fast got stuck but the road was passable with care . |
| 27 | Isabella does not know that the Duke had played the role of the Friar instructing her in the foiling of Angelo 's plots , and so , lacking any independent evidence , she realizes how feeble her case must seem ; yet she still affirms that But the Duke , behaving as Angelo had predicted , and as he would have to behave if he had no evidence , sweeps aside her complaint , leaving her with only heaven to appeal to : The evil is indeed finally ‘ unfolded ’ , not by heaven but by the Duke , although Angelo ( as if recalling that passage in Luke 's gospel ) ascribes divine omniscience to him : But the Duke has only used deception and disguise , legitimately , as Shakespeare makes him say : ‘ Craft against vice I must apply ’ ( III.ii.270 ) . |
| 28 | In the case of the simple potential divider depicted in figure 8.2(c) , the requirement of unaltered loading on insertion between a source and load resistance R L demands that But the attenuation is or through condition ( 8.4 ) From equations ( 8.4 ) and ( 8.5 ) it follows that to implement attenuation A through a simple potential divider without altering the loading of the source , the values of resistances R 1 and R 2 must be Notice that to provide variable attenuation yet maintain unaltered loading , that is , input resistance equal to load resistance , both resistances R 1 and R 2 must be adjusted in such a way as to comply with equations ( 8.6 ) . |
| 29 | John Hall wo n't thank me for saying this but the MetroCentre falls into this category . |
| 30 | As is commonly found in small-scale societies , the definition of humanity excludes all but the we-group . |