Example sentences of "but [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The name comes from the old Norse word meaning ‘ to gush ’ and was not only given to the township nearby , but got into the English language as a descriptive name for any jet of water . |
| 2 | The poster at the end of the tunnel was so large and so perfectly lit that it seemed to O , looking up at it suddenly , that the tunnel did not end in a wall , in fact did not end at all , but led to the green fields of France . |
| 3 | Alex was made a ward of court but lived with the Demetrious . |
| 4 | The case concerned the wife of a civil servant who worked in Northern Ireland but lived in the Irish Republic . |
| 5 | The problems were worsened by corruption , as in the notorious Malaysian case when a major highway contract was awarded to a construction company of limited experience , but owned by the ruling political party . |
| 6 | All three are part of one pattern , defined by Christ , but experienced within the penitential life of the meditator : no resurrection without death , no joy without sorrow , no feeling of the presence of love without sometimes consciousness of its absence , and all three comings relate to an overcoming of sin . |
| 7 | They slowed to give themselves a respite but realized in the succeeding moment that they had run into a dead end . |
| 8 | It seems that they are not gods exactly , but made of the same stuff as gods . |
| 9 | They failed in the former endeavour but succeeded in the latter . |
| 10 | He deserves his reputation for radicalism — he has the softness of a cerebral bop guitarist like Jim Hall but coupled with the sudden fire of Jimmy Hendrix . |
| 11 | He said he did not want to involve British troops and planes in action , but admitted for the first time that it was a possibility . |
| 12 | Mr Brind and other journalists sought judicial review to challenge the directives , but failed before the Divisional Court [ Guardian Law Report : May 27 , 1989 ] . |
| 13 | Mona and Charity exchanged expressions of incomprehension but pounced on the only word they could understand . |
| 14 | PAV stressed its commitment to extensive devolution of powers from the federal to the republican governments , but argued for the federal government to retain strong powers for the economic good of the country and to maintain Czech-Slovak co-operation . |
| 15 | And the singing was not in his head , but rose from the cowled , slow-moving figures who edged the bright file with their tapers . |
| 16 | Najibullah 's offer was welcomed by the Pakistan government but spurned by the hardline mujaheddin groups . |
| 17 | Furthermore , he added what would be construed as an ultimatum but couched in the nicest possible terms . |
| 18 | Black pretended not to overhear , but mused at the private world of women and the bond that had formed between the two . |
| 19 | We did not claim that there had been any cases of poisoning in Britain , but referred to the numerous American cases ( FDA Drug Bulletin 1977 , vol 7 , p 26 ; New England Journal of Medicine 1979 , vol 300 , p 238 ) . |
| 20 | Messrs Hoult and Cowan also went through the report with Mr Barnes but concentrated on the financial crisis , rather than mentioning fraud and malpractice , a decision which Bingham finds ‘ surprising and unfortunate ’ . |
| 21 | For example , the defences were firmly dated to the reign of Hadrian , although Antonine pottery was found in the rampart , but dismissed with the remarkable statement ‘ the overwhelming pre-Antonine character of the mass of associated pottery suggests the earlier , rather than the later of Dr Oswald 's limiting date for the exceptional sherd ’ , i.e. AD 130 — 50 . |
| 22 | The German conjunctions used to signal this structure ( Einerseits ‘ on the one hand ’ , aber … andererseits ‘ but on the other hand ’ ) are more transparent than the mixture of causal Because and adversative But used in the English text . |
| 23 | That night in the pub I did n't sit at the same table as the others but moved into the other bar with my pint and newspaper . |
| 24 | Pigeons used to the northern hemisphere but moved to the southern hemisphere likewise orient with the predicted 180° error at noon . |
| 25 | Riborg approved of the Iraquis because they wore clean shirts every day , but disapproved of the Welsh because they were dirty and noisy and went round in droves . |
| 26 | Barbarossa was crowned Emperor in Saint Peter 's Basilica , declaring that the Pope merely confirmed his existing right to imperial power , but opposed by the Roman citizens and surrounding Italian territories . |
| 27 | It had a title which was not the most inspiring one I had heard in what I presumed to be my life , but told of the one man who had a great impression on me . |
| 28 | Yes they just had one maybe one melodeon or one fiddle , but played for the whole dance and you could hear it from end to end of the hall . |
| 29 | SAM Torrance finished three shots ahead of his nearest challenger after the third round of the Kronenbourg Open at Salo but came off the last green a disappointed man . |
| 30 | He planned to send his sons to day schools , but weakened at the last . |