Example sentences of "[adj] but [adv] [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the tribunal had , for example , decided that it should be comprised of , inter alia , the need for certain fixtures and fittings , and then later ignored this but still invoked the phrase furnished tenancy , all the objections expressed to the separation of the sum from the parts would still apply . |
| 2 | At the same time as our launching of Youth Leagues , we identified volleyball as a growth sport which was not only visually exciting but also had a good , clean image . |
| 3 | He sat as one of the justices of King 's Bench in Easter term 1271 but never became a regular justice of the court . |
| 4 | As they came back into the City , buses had to slow almost to a halt to safely make the turn into Winchester Street ; it was not only steep but also had a tricky camber . |
| 5 | Marathon leader , Britain 's Francis Tuthill was more cautious but still spun the Porsche twice and was passed once on a stage by second-placed Australian Ian Vaughan ( Ford Falcon ) . |
| 6 | Such people , in his and Val 's world , were not quite real but still walked the earth . |
| 7 | The Milan Congress not only severely retarded the development of generations of deaf children for whom the Oral Method was totally inappropriate but also caused the loss of hundreds of teaching jobs held by deaf people throughout the world in schools for the deaf . |
| 8 | Also , status may form the basis of political power — Weber saw this as especially relevant in the case of the German Junker aristocracy , who were economically weak but still held the reins of political power . |
| 9 | SLIGHTLY tired but spiritually refreshed a group from Middlesbrough area returned at the end of October from a memorable series of visits . |
| 10 | Hanson bought the European Ever Ready business for £95m in 1981 but then sold the unprofitable continental operations to rival Duracell . |
| 11 | He was over seventy but still ran the smallholding single-handed . |
| 12 | Parkin looked worried but then snorted a laugh through his chiselled nose . |
| 13 | According to former Mexican Communist Valentin Campa , the attitudes to the Russian revolution of intellectuals such as Ricardo Flores Magón , who was not a Marxist but initially saw the Bolsheviks as ‘ the true internationalists ’ , and leaders such as Emiliano Zapata , were influential in the decision to form a Communist party . |
| 14 | Endill was sure she made tools because they never bought any but always had the ones they needed for digging and planting . |
| 15 | Right , what made we want to be , I wanted to be a policeman when I was very young but never had the courage to do it . |
| 16 | One of the girls was much bigger than the other but neither survived the first hour in their new world . |
| 17 | He had been re-elected as a candidate of the successful Hungarian Democratic Forum ( MDF ) in 1990 but subsequently left the MDF . |
| 18 | It is now most fashionable but once housed the poor . |