Example sentences of "but [adv] [vb past] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the American War of Independence ( 1775–82 ) British troops were besieged for three weeks in the autumn of 1779 in Savannah , Georgia , by French and American troops , but successfully repulsed the attack . |
| 2 | Such anecdotes can not be a basis for generalisation , but rather illustrated the response of particular children to their own improved or deteriorating vision . |
| 3 | They have often not promoted the idea that human nature is basically sound if encouraged , but rather emphasized the need for a concept of divine grace . |
| 4 | Consequently , Jessop argues , the extension of the welfare state had no effects on deprivation but rather encouraged the politicisation of various groups in urban areas , for example squatters , tenants ' rights and welfare rights groups . |
| 5 | However , we had previously shown that a 2.3kb HNF-L promoter fragment linked to the Thy-1 gene was not expressed early in development , but rather mimicked the expression pattern of the Thy-1 gene ( 28 ) . |
| 6 | An important example is George Crabbe , who grew up in poverty but eventually became a priest ; although his poetry is deeply informed by the experience of poverty , he is alienated in many respects from the class into which he was born . |
| 7 | Dr Palmer had a horse and trap in the late 19th century but eventually had a chauffeur driven car . |
| 8 | The National Executive at first refused this , but eventually left the decision to the Conference delegates . |
| 9 | Border called wrongly but eventually won the match by nine wickets . |
| 10 | Thus his writings give the opposite impression to those of the earlier moralists like Salvian , and even of that conveyed by Paulinus of Pella , a member of the senatorial aristocracy who collaborated with the Visigoths in the early years of their settlement in Aquitaine , but eventually lost the majority of his property , as he relates in his autobiographical poem , the Eucharisticon . |
| 11 | He loved apples , but rarely had a chance to eat them . |
| 12 | The Llanelli back row successfully countered the threat of Dean Oswald , the New Zealand No 8 who , returning to the Pontypool side after a 10-week absence , made an attractive contribution but rarely crossed the gain line . |
| 13 | When the time came to greet the newly-weds Prince Napoleon bowed to the Emperor but pointedly ignored the Empress , while Prince Pierre Bonaparte saluted neither the one nor the other . |
| 14 | Thus , the UK was still a European leader in innovation in the 1950s and 1960s , but perhaps had a bias towards pure science rather than towards the commercial development of technological ideas that will form the next generation of industries . |
| 15 | Reported crime increased several times between 1800 and 1840 , but so did the efficiency of government in recording offences . |
| 16 | Within this there was an equally important change , for not only did the number of Unionist seats increase , but so did the number of safe seats . |
| 17 | She briefly wondered if it was perhaps the work of Earth Reptiles , but swiftly dismissed the idea , since not only did the style not match theirs , but there was no sign of their hibernation hives . |
| 18 | The umpire gave no notice to the parties or their solicitors , examined no witnesses , but merely heard the statement of the two " arbitrators " and inspected the premises . |
| 19 | However , the Interior Minister , Julio Mera Figueroa , insisted at a press conference on March 7 that the decree did not modify the March 1989 decree but merely changed the composition of the National Security Council . |
| 20 | The large wines and spirits business in the survey referred to two UK firms who had shown good performance — EAL and Whitehead Mann — but apparently had no experience of the largest firms . |
| 21 | Was it because of Emmanuel Steele , who had his shoemaking shop between the Misses Cardings and the bakery and who was well into his forties , but apparently had no use for women , inasmuch as he did his own housework in the rooms above the shop , and ate most of his meals out . |
| 22 | He did n't mind telling her in no uncertain terms to keep her distance from him , not that she had any inclination to do anything else , but obviously felt no compulsion to obey those rules when applied to himself . |
| 23 | That 's the number of lucky motorists the Wolfsburg manufacturer has equipped with the Golf G60 Limited , a car that was the subject of over 1000 enquiries when it was announced to dealers in Germany last year but only had a production run of 70 . |
| 24 | She swung round , but only saw the myriad jostling headlights behind them . |
| 25 | Michael too was good at school but only did the minimum of study . |
| 26 | A 30-yearold ex-stockbroker , she was recruited from Oxford by a merchant bank in the early 1980s , but soon realised the City was not the place it had been . |
| 27 | Taking it seriously he was accepted on a degree course in Photography at Nottingham but soon found the kind of dogmatic regimentation which he was subjected to counter-productive . |
| 28 | Taking it seriously he was accepted at Nottingham but soon found the kind of dogmatic regimentation which he was subjected to counter-productive . |
| 29 | Fathers or father surrogates were often unemployed , families moved home frequently , father figures changed or left the family home often , mothers were very young ( average age twenty-one years ) but already had an average of three children . |
| 30 | Reviews were mixed but largely went the way of those who saw it as a one-and-a-half-hour commercial for LSD . |