Example sentences of "[to-vb] but the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reliable comparative statistics are hard to find but the European Commission has published some figures showing the relative purchasing power of pensions in each of the member states . |
| 2 | It was not possible to confirmthat the immunoreactive signal in serum was due to APGPR but the immunoreactive signal in urine coeluted with synthetic APGPR . |
| 3 | I know we as a nation are not renowned for our ability to serve but the general level of indifference , apathy and downright rudeness I encountered made even me , a cynical bastard at the best of times , wince . |
| 4 | In 1960 , Arnold Palmer birdied the hole to win but the following year took a duffer 's six to lose ; Hubert Green missed a putt of three feet to tie in 1978 ; Ed Sneed wilted in 1979 , taking a bogey five when a par would have won ; Greg Norman needed a par to tie with Nicklaus in 1986 but succumbed to a blocked second shot ; Larry Mize birdied the hole in 1987 to force a play-off with Severiano Ballesteros and Norman , which Mize won . |
| 5 | They have in some cases a weekly or monthly schedule of orders to win but the long-term relationship with their customer is also of great importance and the weight to be put on the two factors at any one time calls for the exercise of judgement . |
| 6 | It is not the certificate as such that we wish to include but the underlying deposit , which is a time deposit just like all other time deposits that appear in such definitions . |
| 7 | Head buried , nothing to see but the brown velvet belly full of blood , all soft and bloated like a spider 's abdomen . |
| 8 | Software houses have been slow to response but the square footage sold to date is reportedly ahead of schedule . |
| 9 | ‘ Quite simply , ’ Miles concludes , ‘ frying itself is not a bad process to use but the deep-fat fryer has to be used correctly . ’ |
| 10 | Here , Mrs Pettifer began to interject but the small gentleman silenced her with a flap of the wrist which was altogether not very gentlemanly and proved too much for the great lady detective who made a more purposeful interjection of her own . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's something I would like to do but the big question is which direction to go in . |
| 12 | In terms of relieving over-crowding and dealing with the decay of older prisons , new and refurbished buildings clearly have something to offer but the sheer scale and cost of the proposals ( an average capital cost per place of £69,000 and thereafter £13,000 per prisoner per year to run ) has drawn much critical comment . |
| 13 | Both coxes steered well and the blades did not appear to touch but the youthful Chick probably won the battle against Cambridge 's Andy Probert . |