Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the [noun sg] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | A palace aide said last night : ‘ We were all a bit apprehensive about the lunch but when they arrived they put everyone at ease . |
| 2 | Are there ideas which were not right for the time but which could be revived and used , ow ? |
| 3 | He said members were upset about the decision but felt there was nothing else they could do . |
| 4 | His retirement took him away from the intense glare of publicity but he retained the admiration and affection of those who loved football — and those who knew little about the game but recognised a true gentleman and outstanding sportsman . |
| 5 | ‘ Sorry for the delay but there 's a preceding train in front , ’ called the driver through his intercom . |
| 6 | Mike Cotton , cross country secretary of the Cleveland Schools AAA , said : ‘ I feel sorry for the lad but there is absolutely nothing we can do about it . ’ |
| 7 | If a cat kills a mouse we may feel sorry for the mouse but we no longer accuse the cat of wickedness . |
| 8 | Rory smiled , grateful for the compliment but still no closer to the truth . |
| 9 | Sorry about the mess but you caught me on the hop like . |
| 10 | Because of the changed security situation and that type of er conflict not being envisaged in the same way now , what we felt was important was to be able to operate er apart from main operating bases , but also from sort of general purpose erm strips , flying clubs and those type of smaller airfields and therefore rather than looking at the damaged runway situation , we looked at the smaller strips and took a length that we could sensibly operate from erm and took that as the yardstick but clearly notwithstanding that , there is the prospect of damaged runways and therefore the slight relaxation would also apply to damaged runways but perhaps damaged to a lesser extent . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll leave it at that for the moment but I may have to ask you that question again . |
| 12 | Television scored best on helping people decide how to Vote if they found politics interesting during the campaign but had lacked a general interest in politics in the mid-term . |
| 13 | Television , newspapers , PEBs , party leaflets , and personal conversations were all most useful in helping people decide how to vote if they found politics interesting during the campaign but had lacked a more general interest in politics in the mid-term . |
| 14 | Erm the Japanese presence in the south was , was more just along the coast , they , they , they 'd taken the trading ports erm and they had some of the interior but on , on the whole south China had not been dominated by the Japanese , th th th their base was very much the north China plain and , and spreading across towards the communist areas . |
| 15 | I have n't got some of the music but |
| 16 | It is embedded with some of the intelligence but not necessarily the wit of the author ! |
| 17 | It may not be very nice some of the time but it does n't tell lies . |
| 18 | And erm somebody like Mike of Chris is perfectly capable of get their bits of paper to check to tick off things like that but Wendy will have to check it and put it you know they could do some of the legwork but not yet . |
| 19 | She felt uncomfortable with some of the material but she did n't know why . |
| 20 | It may have been different if Arsenal were top of the table but they 're not . |
| 21 | Putting it this simply does not make light of the doubt but takes it very seriously . |
| 22 | It is possible to make light of the process but , be under no illusion , it is a deadly serious affair . |
| 23 | Martin was afraid of the churchyard but he knew he had to go inside . |
| 24 | Stocking rates were high near the coast but low in the mountains and the stock produced from the mountains was less marketable . |
| 25 | I could be doing this with the mouse but . |
| 26 | The the the trouble is it 's not not not that wrong with the fence but the ivy 's so thick , it 's been there so long has n't it ? |
| 27 | The latter is popular with the public but not with the sponsor , there being little chance of a discount ! |
| 28 | Erm in fact a similar effect happens , I 'll be mentioning this in the lecture but let me just mention it now . |
| 29 | Erm yeah if you try and transcribe stuff , as I discovered doing my P HD you know , I did n't realise how much gibberish was talked and often things the meaning 's clear in the conversation but if you listen to the words or l w read the words later y'know you have n't a clue what they 're on about and yet you 're fairly sure |
| 30 | This finding not only reinforces the review that the engram site has been correctly located , it also strongly suggests that the engram is intracellular — it remains stored in the cell but ca n't be communicated when the neurotransmitter is inhibited . |