Example sentences of "[adj] but the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Court permission has been granted to sell the property and advice is being sought as to the best way to approach this but the state of the building and the effects of the economic situation do not make for easy decisions . |
| 2 | Court permission has been granted to sell the property and advice is being sought as to the best way to approach this but the state of the building and the effects of the economic situation do not make for easy decisions . |
| 3 | Certainly , an attack on southern planning models , national legislation , and perhaps even bureaucratisation was implicit in all of this but the issue of personal culpability clouded and discredited these important points . |
| 4 | I am sorry to worry you over this but the result of the present system is that John Merer and I are barely on speaking terms . |
| 5 | It was seen as a one-off but the rest of the band recognised Solowka 's zeal . |
| 6 | Dobry 's view that ‘ it is not so much the system which is wrong but the way in which it is used ’ was endorsed , and his Final Report was commended to students of our planning system as an invaluable compendium of information about the working of the existing development control process , and to local authorities and developers as a source of advice on the best way to operate within it . |
| 7 | In our case the origin of the myofibroblasts is not clear but the presence of transitional forms of smooth muscle cells strongly suggests an origin from such cells rather than extension of pericrypt cells or infiltration of circulating blood cells . |
| 8 | His count , apparently , was sufficiently high but the motility in this , and subsequent samples , was disappointingly low . |
| 9 | Its popularity is still high but the quality of the mass-produced , growth-promoted product of today is far below the standard of the succulent farmhouse bacon of the past . |
| 10 | Squid also inhabit deep water where the problem is not reflected light but the absence of light . |
| 11 | The mine is to become operational by 1985 but the cost of producing the coal in conditions where the hydraulic systems of the excavators freeze and burst in the intense cold is such that only by CPE ( Centrally Planned Economy ) economics would the project be viable . |
| 12 | It is a messy , complicated business dating back to 1985 but the essence of the charge is : |
| 13 | By the mid 1960s , not only was this area experiencing acidities less than pH 4.0 but the area of acid precipitation with values below pH 4.5 had expanded to include most of East and West Germany , northern France , eastern England and southern Scandinavia . |
| 14 | Two of the dressing rooms stood empty but the door to Wardrobe had been closed . |
| 15 | It marks not the dying of something old but the birth of something new . |
| 16 | The public is entitled to use the highway for passage and repassage from one place to another but the extent to which this gives an unrestricted right to hold a moving demonstration on the highway is doubtful . |
| 17 | Like Nicotiana langsdorfii , the flowers are pretty and intriguing but the plant as a whole is not showy in our climate , making too much stem and leaf . |
| 18 | The region 's gross domestic product ( GDP ) had shown a growth rate of 6 per cent in 1991 but the figure for 1992 was expected to be only 5.7 per cent . |
| 19 | At its simplest , sociobiology is arguing , then , that the central drive affecting individual and social behaviour is not the preservation of the individual but the maximisation of the individual 's genes into future generations . |
| 20 | The Axminster agreement is quite straightforward but the link with their UK sales operation is not so easy to understand . |
| 21 | The evenings were drawing out and it was not yet dark but the hall of Moorlake was shadowy and insubstantial in the twilight . |
| 22 | Schools in urban areas were predictably more numerous and efficacious but the gap between urban and rural areas narrowed . |
| 23 | One can not say , for instance , that the artist 's portrait is serious but the wallpaper on which the picture hangs is not , or vice versa . |
| 24 | There are one or two clerks , er that have male , purely because it 's , it 's their job anyway , and er the chief clerk headquarters is a male but the majority of them now are women yep , and they do well er , headquarters staff do it very well I think , that side of it . |
| 25 | Donegal in December 1979 but the story of uranium mining actually begins three years further back . |
| 26 | Thus for example , the proportion of total social service department expenditure upon elderly people increased from 38.1 to 45 per cent between 1973 to 1979 but the percentage of expenditure on community services remained the same and continued to be so into the mid 1980s ( Parker , 1990 ) . |
| 27 | The question may not be perfect but the shift in opinion is unmistakable . |
| 28 | Empty of content but the drip of pain . |
| 29 | The 1989 review of the NHS allowed tax relief for private health insurance for the over-60s but the rejection of other means of finance rules out any fundamental change in the near future . |
| 30 | ‘ If we could run a commuter service we would be delighted but the number of people using the boat — we need 130 morning and night — has been insufficient , ’ he said . |