Example sentences of "[adj] but [verb] [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything crystal clear but refusing to make sense . |
| 2 | Once his parents were able to reassure him that his mummy had been very ill for a while but now she was better but had to take medicine he became a much easier boy to handle and stopped urinating on the carpet . |
| 3 | Romer J. held that the charges for re-cutting , repainting and regilding were illegal but refused to allow recovery of past payments for these . |
| 4 | The Crown then repaid the capital sum with interest from 31 July 1987 but refused to pay interest for earlier periods . |
| 5 | Foreign Ministers from eight Arab countries party to the March Damascus Declaration [ see pp. 38116-17 ] — the six Gulf Co-Operation Council ( GCC ) states and Egypt and Syria — met in Kuwait City on July 15-16 but failed to reach agreement on the formation of a joint security force to defend Kuwait . |
| 6 | Whereas using the device in the former genre displays acting skill advantageously , its use in the latter is not only more expensive and difficult but tends to draw attention to the technical device rather too obviously . |
| 7 | A proposal to construct a similar facility in the UK , using the 10 MeV tandem accelerator at Oxford University , was submitted to the SERC in September 1989 but failed to gain support . |