Example sentences of "but [vb past] in [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 not fudged , but agreed in concrete terms on a rather different basis .
2 Four of these were members of the networks under observation , but lived in neighbouring townships and so were excluded from the quantitative analysis which concerned itself with the known-unknown ratio in specific townships .
3 There are many cheeses that are similar to Brie and Camembert but produced in different shapes or sold at differing stages of ripeness. all are referred to as surface-ripened , containing bacteria on their developing white rinds .
4 It may enjoy support not widely dispersed , but concentrated in certain constituencies .
5 The final stage in the exercise would be to ensure that whatever resources were made available , they were not dissipated , but concentrated in special units .
6 ‘ The plane will have four engines , ’ said Dr Kocurek , ‘ but mounted in two pairs on the wings , each one driving a six-bladed propeller .
7 My Delight completed the course but came in ten lengths behind the rest of the field .
8 In 1357 the clerical author of the short De miserabili statu regni Francie , reflecting upon the disaster of Poitiers , praised the courage of the king , John II , who had fought bravely up to the very moment of his capture , but condemned in strong terms the failure and lack of heart of the nobility , the ‘ duces belli ’ who had failed in their obligation to the French state .
9 This situation was not merely anticipated but welcomed in certain quarters .
10 On the one hand , the high rate of government subsidies has benefited individual investors but resulted in considerable losses to the national economy that have done nothing to help Brazil repay its huge international loans .
11 Baker said that the United States would not recognize Slovenia or Croatia as international subjects , but spoke in favourable terms of the idea of Yugoslavia becoming a loose alliance of states as in the Izetbegovic-Gligorov compromise proposal [ see above ] , and warned , at the end of his visit , of the tragic consequences of Yugoslav instability .
12 Figures 3.14 and 3.15 show alternative dawgs which represent the same three words but presented in different orders .
13 Northumberland senior boys 110 metres hurdler Kevin Lumsden knocked four barriers down but won in 14.9 secs , a three-second improvement on the run which earned him the county title seven days earlier .
14 The evidence , however , is slim , and the logical conclusion — the two-second or five-second commercial — seems far away ; while so-called ‘ subliminal ’ advertising , using flashes of picture or words lasting only fractions of a second , is not only totally unproven as a technique , but banned in most countries where advertising on film is available .
15 A Digital spokeswoman in Massachusetts declined to say when the decision would be made , but said in such cases , the affected employees were always the first to be notified .
16 This kind of paper , in use in the 25 years up to 1914 but revived in recent times , also places the EZRA POUND photographs in a time outside the present — suggesting , perhaps a vision of Venice in the time of the " Belle Epoque " when Pound first came to Europe as a young man and revolutionized poetics in the English language .
17 All however show the full development of the idea of high relief : figures given the bodily roundness of statues but grouped in pictorial compositions against the background to which they are attached .
18 What starts as a kind of confusion between the rules accepted for sculpture in the round and those for drawing , ends with the realisation of a new art-form , sculpture in high relief , with conventions of its own : figures given their full bodily roundness but grouped in two-dimensional compositions against a flat background to which they are attached or , in developed pedimental sculpture , from which they are carved separate as complete statues .
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