Example sentences of "[noun pl] but [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | entered once for all into the Holy Place , taking not the blood of goats and calves but his own blood , thus securing an eternal redemption … |
| 2 | He kept working when the war started between the Arabs and the Jews but his last edition came suddenly on 9 March 1948 . |
| 3 | It has some Balinese influences but its own culture . |
| 4 | Some people however , are in danger of losing control not just of their words but their whole language . |
| 5 | Now in the same way over the four years when you are in overall control of the Council you suggested that Conservative money , the of council tax to pay for public transport but you never spent all the money on public transport , instead of which you on as you admitted which will be used in other directions but your last budget |
| 6 | Dowie is a target for the Saints boo-boys but his willing heart makes him a dressing room favourite . |
| 7 | In a typical seventeenth-century image , the world was likened to a watch whose face is presented to our five senses but whose real workings are governed by springs and wheels , hidden from sight behind the back . |
| 8 | Rush usually has a high sense of occasion for landmarks but his 200th league goal for Liverpool came when the master hit man seemed to mistime Don Hutchison 's chip eight yards out . |
| 9 | A mentally disturbed 15 year old was fully capable of understanding the implications of psychiatric treatment on her " good " days but her mental condition rendered her totally incapable at other times . |
| 10 | She was consoled , too , to have them in her house where they made an uncommon amount of noise and were certainly not easy guests but their beaming countenances and determination to look on the bright side of everything lightened the atmosphere immensely . |
| 11 | Carbenoxolone was the market leader for about 10 years but its structural similarities to the steroid hormone aldosterone was probably responsible for side-effects such as weight gain , oedema ( accumulation of fluid in tissues ) , hypokalaemia ( potassium loss ) and hypertension found in some patients . |
| 12 | Drovers had pastured their herds here for many years but their customary right had vanished when Flemyng bought the ground and it was a daily vexation of Cameron 's to move the animals out from among his materials and even from inside the unfinished walls . |
| 13 | These buying and selling groups had contributed to reducing costs and improving pro fits but their continued success was dependent on the farmers accepting a measure of discipline . |
| 14 | All but a handful of the 18,298 crowd stayed in their places but their growing frustration reached fever pitch in the 88th minute when Adams stole in unmarked at the far post to volley home Le Tissier 's inviting cross . |
| 15 | The Conceicao programme has a few hospital beds but its main functions are to run community health centres in favelas and a large primary care clinic in the main hospital which caters for the local population . |
| 16 | What was under test was not my skills or abilities but my moral judgement . |
| 17 | It changed hands again several times but its subsequent history is of no consequence to this narrative . |
| 18 | The most telling evidence of all that Sunday trading is a costly mistake , for which the whole nation is paying a heavy price , is not the new year phoney price war by the supermarket chains but their savage attack on the living standards of the employees . |
| 19 | The concept of excluded investment activities serves to remove some of the uncertainty in respect of industrial and commercial companies which may be involved in investment activities but whose mainstream business is not in the financial services sector . |
| 20 | The term ‘ the inner city ’ may tell us much more about the manner in which an agenda of social problems is set by the combined and unequal influences of a variety of interest groups than about the political economy of cities but its very reproduction in a set of discourses about ‘ the urban ’ guarantees it a status of its own . |
| 21 | It was a relief not to weep and toss sleepless at night after such tragedies but her own indifference shocked and troubled her . |
| 22 | where his right hand , he 's a very confident music reader and plays but his left hand he 's merely sort of hangs there like a claw and plays the odd chord |
| 23 | WATERFALLS , buttons , dwarfs and bagpipes are among the more bizarre causes of phobias among Britons but their biggest fear is loneliness , according to a study by psychoanalyst Michael Whitenburgh who runs stress clinics in Liverpool and London 's Harley Street . |
| 24 | When I checked up on his progress I was startled to find that he had not only planted up the four pots but his red wellington boots as well , liberally watering both them and himself and then garnishing with sprigs of a semi-dormant fuchsia as a finishing touch . |
| 25 | She confesses to thinking more now about her social life , and marriage and children do n't seem quite so remote from her dreams but her temporal desires remain on the backburner still , sacrificed for a higher purpose : the music and anyone who attempts to dig for a Máire , a Sinéad , or a Mary Couglan should be arrested for indecency . |
| 26 | It was not , after all , the heroes who were parodied , nor the Trojan war and its participants : not Hercules and his exploits but their tragic heroization . |
| 27 | If the joint venture is between firms that do not compete directly in the relevant product market , the exemption applies for five years ( from when the product is first put on the EC market ) regardless of market share ; it also applies if the participants are rivals but their collective share does not exceed 20 per cent of the relevant market . |
| 28 | ‘ They 're fed up with not only their ‘ perfect ’ bodies but their astronomical fees . |
| 29 | In the case of another very early practitioner , Psiax , who also worked with Andokides but whose stylistic links are with Lydos and Amasis rather than Exekias , the highly distinctive hand is unmistakable in both techniques . |
| 30 | The workmen had offered him ear plugs but his commanding officer had forbidden him to wear them . |