Example sentences of "but [art] [noun sg] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This limitation was removed by the Education Act of 1890 , but the description remained unchanged until the 1918 Act . |
| 2 | Eighteen people have been charged , but the haul remains unidentified . |
| 3 | One coach only needs a small amount of work to restore it to its original condition , but the other requires extensive work . |
| 4 | One was the normal otter colour but the other had fawn-coloured fur like its mother . |
| 5 | But the committee removed key sentences which suggested that flaws in the experiment might have resulted in this being a serious underestimate . |
| 6 | Cinema admissions had indeed increased as people sought escape at the movies from the horrors of war , and the flow of French and Italian imports had been disrupted , but the screen-time made available had been almost totally absorbed by American pictures : by 1918 some 80 per cent or films shown in Britain were from the US . |
| 7 | It is uncertain how likely this is to occur , but the possibility seems remote . |
| 8 | But the obstinacy seemed intolerable . |
| 9 | The wetness of the rags does not accomplish much but the wood gets heated and the rags may insulate the hot wood and prevent it from cooling too quickly . |
| 10 | Recent cohorts will not match the 2.4 children per family of the baby boom years , but the total seems unlikely to fall much below 2 ( table 4.1 ) . |
| 11 | By Jan. 19 it was announced that six groups had agreed to the formula , but the proposal received strong opposition from the Pakistan-based Hezb-e Islami , led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar . |
| 12 | But the approach eschews vague yet important notions of fairness and integrity , and makes them subservient to what can be criticized as a very narrow view of cost . |
| 13 | But the corridor remained silent , and with a sob of despair she threw herself on to the bed and cried till her store of tears was used up . |
| 14 | For over a week government forces were unable to crush guerrilla-style resistance , but the army remained loyal and by the second half of December the workers , movement was clearly on the retreat . |
| 15 | The kingdom hoped for an heir but the King became surly , angry and withdrawn ; he shunned the French envoys but , yes , in the days preceding , even the day before his death , he was closeted with them . ’ |
| 16 | but the going gets tough it 's it 's easy to blame minority groups and this is what happened before was n't it ? |
| 17 | I do n't know how many times I 'd done the Harwich-to-London run , but the journey seemed different that day — like a well-known view captured in a freshly painted picture . |
| 18 | But the issue remained unresolved within the Labour Party and was to surface again when it returned to power in the 1960s . |
| 19 | But the champion has cold comfort from a scheduled fourth round clash with Krajicek and a quarter-final showdown with world No 1 Sampras , who opens against world No 119 Neil Borwick , of Australia . |
| 20 | I have already fitted high ratio diffs but the engine seems powerless at about 60–65mph ( no more acceleration ) so the idea of a 3.5 crossed my mind . |
| 21 | ‘ But the affair went wrong — and that 's what has brought you back across the Tasman . |
| 22 | Rioch joined Millwall but the scene turned sour for him last season . |
| 23 | Now unfortunately , that 's how it should of worked but the message got lost down the line somewhere . |
| 24 | The process has been efficient but the message has faulty content . |
| 25 | But the content looks ambitious and imaginative . |
| 26 | These bombs were produced when lumps of viscous , gas-rich lava were ejected from the vent ; the outer surface of the lump chilled quickly , forming the glassy crust , but the inside remained hot , and the gas trapped within it continued to come out of solution and to expand , forming a spongy mass of vesicles . |
| 27 | This may seem surprising in view of Adenauer 's previous support for supranationalism , but the Chancellor saw Franco-German co-operation as the vital element in his European policy . |
| 28 | The liver was large and congested , but the spleen seemed normal . |
| 29 | Western economies are certainly prone to crises , but the state seems able to keep them in check . |
| 30 | Commenting on its figures ( see page five ) , Eschborn , Germany-based Linotype AG says its 1992 domestic orders fell by 6% but the company enjoyed solid gains in key foreign markets , with the US up 18% , Japan up 24% and the Middle and Far East showing gains of between 15% and 49% ; the US market surpassed Germany for the first time , and exports at the computerised printing systems and equipment company accounted for 72.1% of overall business in 1992 after 69.1% a year earlier . |