Example sentences of "[adj] but [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Blackmore dropped shots at the first and second but by the turn was two under due to birdies at four and five and an eagle three at the ninth . |
| 32 | When the Newcastle goalkeeper rose to his feet after treatment , Mr Jones chose to re-start play not with a free-kick but with a drop-ball inside the penalty area . |
| 33 | If it were not for the fact that he was one of the favourites you 'd have been delighted but as a Gold Cup winner I had to feel a bit disappointed . |
| 34 | The principle appears to be related not to the Crown as such but to the Crown when performing a particular function . |
| 35 | The Convention is confined to international financial leasing , that is , to leasing which in economic terms is equivalent to a sale or purchase-money loan , the equipment being leased to a single lessee at whose request it was bought and the rentals being fixed not by reference to the use-value of the equipment as such but at a level which , taking into account cash-flows , tax-reliefs , and the like , will guarantee to the lessor the reim-bursement of his capital costs and desired return on capital . |
| 36 | The track felt soft and slithery but in the dark she could n't see what it was she was stepping on . |
| 37 | ‘ At 2–0 I thought it was going to be easy but in the end it was n't easy at all , ’ admitted Charlton in his after-match press conference . |
| 38 | To begin with we were nervous but by the end we were making up silly situations and if we made mistakes everyone laughed . ’ |
| 39 | ( Oh , yes , I was a handsome rogue , tall with jet-black hair , olive-skinned but with a cast in one eye , I always thought it gave me a devil-may-care look . ) |
| 40 | Brian Stewart , chief executive of Scottish and Newcastle , said the Budget was wide-ranging but in the context of his own industry , the Chancellor 's decision to raise excise duty on beer flew in the face of commercial reality . |
| 41 | From its harsh too-shiny texture there was no doubt it was synthetic but from a distance it looked like a black cat 's pelt . |
| 42 | He had dreamed about Mr Whistle , picturing him as a child-sized man in a Little Lord Fauntleroy outfit , with floppy velvet bows and knickerbockers , his head a white eggshape , featureless but for a shark 's gash of a mouth . |
| 43 | Direction is determined not by an objective but by the nature of the organisation and the field in which it operates . |
| 44 | These boys were not chosen at random but on the basis of their being , a priori , representative of members of the Rowdies group as a whole . |
| 45 | Confident that ‘ Bazza ’ would return , the programme editor left a white space where the manager 's notes should have been , blank but for the message : ‘ This page is reserved . ’ |
| 46 | Above Eaux-Bonnes is the ski resort of Gourette , which has been created in the kind of setting ski resorts ought to have , in pasture-land but at the foot of the formidable mass of the Pic de Ger to the south . |
| 47 | I 've always had to work very hard but at the end of the day I 'm , I 'm self-satisfied because I 'm I 'm doing what I want to do . |
| 48 | Er which you might think that again sounds odd and finicky but by the way note I said between w er er it applies to both ward and division . |
| 49 | Numbers will increase gradually from the mid-1990s but by the turn of the century they will still be below current levels . |
| 50 | He came , looking as he always did , huge , a little untidy but with a smile of great sweetness on his lean face , from which the tan had almost completely faded . |
| 51 | Maybe you were neither of these but in the pocey extension to the left as you go in where all the posers and knobs hang out ( even though it 's got a really good 6ft TV there ) … |
| 52 | The large figure of Athena is drawn in a modification of black-figure but in a style that could well be Euthymides 's . |
| 53 | In return for this co-operation the French asked that the child queen should be affianced not to Edward VI but to the Dauphin of France , and that she should be brought up there . |
| 54 | ‘ Quite well , thank you , ’ was her polite but in no sense cheerful answer . |
| 55 | The line is now extinct but at the time we arrived they had lived in the castle for some five hundred years . |
| 56 | It was very short-lived but at the time it was a bit of a shock . |
| 57 | It left quite an impression , because it needed the brilliant virtuosity that Repin already had at that time , and it needed powerful playing from the orchestra , not just loud but with a lot of richness for the fast passages — you know how to judge a great orchestra when you hear let's say thousands of notes in a few seconds , and there 's still a special timbre . |
| 58 | I mean I used to , I can chart the American way you see cos but the American way is different to the British way cos we just count number one to eight but with an American they go one one , one two , one three , one four , one five , one six and then they come this way . |
| 59 | Well I I was eleven but by the time but I had a birthday , you see , er in the summer and er er well August actually and so when I started at Stowmarket I was twelve , you see , and er and er I was at Stowmarket School and scholarship for four years and er well I do n't know whether I really liked school , did you ? |
| 60 | And just back to football , the South Midland premier division ; Thame United retain their lead at the top of the table with a narrow but in the end , comfortable victory at Langford this afternoon . |