Example sentences of "but [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately , that was in harmony with the thoughts of the ITF Rules Committee which had also met at Key Biscayne a few days earlier and had thrown out the idea of one serve instead of two … or changing the dimensions of the court , such as a smaller service box or a serving line a yard behind the baseline , but agreed to make further research into rackets , balls and court surfaces . |
| 2 | This had an iron undershot wheel but ceased operating some time in the 1920s . |
| 3 | The initial guidance would normally come from the advisory service but helping to put those suggestions into practice should be the role of the training services . |
| 4 | The two researchers do not recommend introducing pigs into existing woodland , but favour planting new areas specifically for a sylvopastoral system with pigs or planting trees on an outdoor range that is already in use . |
| 5 | Personally , I 'd not have made any heavyweight preparations but avoided giving any clues until the last moment . |
| 6 | But to continue to proclaim these things , to continue not to ordain women , in the world of today , sets the church apart . |
| 7 | Stewart shared a third-wicket partnership of 179 with Robin Smith , one of four men who passed 90 in this match but failed to reach four figures |
| 8 | A " wolf summit " was held in January to debate the plan , but failed to reach any agreement [ see ED 68 ] . |
| 9 | Sailing with about 50 men in mid-October , Ormonde had an uneventful passage from Normandy to Torbay , but failed to see any signs of a rising there and thereupon returned to St Malo . |
| 10 | They convened that day , but failed to issue any resolution until late on Aug. 3 . |
| 11 | In both Tests , two or three Englishmen looked well set , but failed to convert good innings into substantial ones , unlike India who won the first Test through Azharuddin 's great innings of 182 and laid the foundation for the Madras victory with Tendulkar 's 165 and Sidhu 's 106 . |
| 12 | A report by the National Human Rights Commission blamed the army for the deaths but failed to investigate possible complicity between the army and the drug smugglers . |
| 13 | Lodwick 's unpublished manuscripts , including an innovatory Dutch shorthand , are listed in his Works ( 1972 ) , all of which display originality and intelligence , but failed to find practical implementation by his successors . |
| 14 | ‘ We drilled two wells whilst I was in Brazil but failed to find commercial hydrocarbons and the office was closed when the work programme was completed , ’ he explained . |
| 15 | If you would like to plant a silvery grey bed but want to add some flowers as well , you can keep to the silvery theme by adding pale and dark blues , creams and whites , all of which blend with the grey to give a stunning overall effect . |
| 16 | Here again , higher primates in captivity seem to be motivated in the right general direction , but appear to need some element of learning to be able to focus the instinctual drive towards its goal . |
| 17 | Taiwan banned rhino horn imports in 1985 but has given traditional medicine shops until 1994 to sell existing stocks [ see ED 65 ] . |
| 18 | The hotel has no private parking space but has arranged concessionary access to a municipal multi-storey car park nearby off Southgate Street . |
| 19 | A spokesman for Vietnam Airlines said : ‘ She is in good condition , but has lost two teeth . ’ |
| 20 | The exterior still shows the original form well but has lost all decoration . |
| 21 | Seaman badly bruised a hip and came off early in the second half last weekend but has received extensive treatment . |
| 22 | Boyden followed Spencer Stuart in 1965–6 but has suffered varying business fortunes since then . |
| 23 | This has always been a feature of political life , but has assumed new prominence since 1979 . |
| 24 | Significant compression has only developed comparatively recently ( the Alpine Fault was transtensile until the Pliocene ) but has generated rapid uplift with the highest peaks in the Southern Alps now exceeding an altitude of 3000 m . |
| 25 | The application of infrared to stereostructure determination in polymers is less reliable than n.m.r. , but has achieved moderate success for poly ( methyl methacrylate ) and polypropylene . |
| 26 | The Perth professional , whose father engraves the winner 's name on the Open Championship Trophy , earned the 37th card on his 11th visit to the PGA School in November but has missed two cuts and finished 66th on his three previous Tour outings this year . |
| 27 | Just as the notion of civil rights has not been fixed in its eighteenth-century formulation but has undergone continuing expansion , so too with the rights that go with academic freedom . |
| 28 | Those familiar with philosophical writing on causation , or touching on causation , will have noticed that our analysis so far of it has taken the terms necessary connection " , " nomic connection " , and " lawlike connection " as synonymous , but has made little reference to laws . |
| 29 | The Chancellor has preserved his flexibility to adjust duties between different categories of drinks , but has made little use of that flexibility in the face of overwhelming evidence that market conditions have changed fundamentally in favour of wines . |
| 30 | Dan Jones ( 64 ) has no formal qualifications but has had long experience in the distribution and sale of beers , wines and spirits as Marketing Manager for Palatine . |