Example sentences of "but [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A curiosity in Enescu 's output is the way that he sometimes bracketed under the same opus number works of the same genre but widely separated in time : the two Op. 24 piano sonatas of 1924 and 1935 , for example ( the latter in fact called No. 3 , since the composer confessed that No. 2 existed only in his head and was never written down ) , or the more extreme case of the two Op. 26 cello sonatas of 1898 and 1935 . |
| 2 | Again Yorkshire and Humberside er Scotland and Wales tending to lead that erm all of them as I said have got strong output trends erm in terms of Yorkshire and Humberside the orders er seem to be very much domestic rather than export but widely spread between sectors which gives |
| 3 | Maybe this is all that is needed to re-ignite calls for a review of the welfare benefits which single parents receive — a review actually under way earlier this year , but thankfully kicked into touch by Tony Newton when he took over from the hapless John Moore as Social Security Secretary last Summer . |
| 4 | Nice flavour , but rather overloaded with nuts and cherries . |
| 5 | During the 1960's Noam Chomsky popularised the view that human languages together share certain universal grammatic features , and that language is not learnt from scratch but rather acquired by brain centres sensitive to this underlying syntax . |
| 6 | Configured like the reticulated rib-cage of some enormous alien creature , long dead and looming over them , the vault appeared not to have been carved but rather rubbed into shape painstakingly , no doubt by the labour of slaves over many decades , millennia earlier . |
| 7 | She taught briefly in schools in Liverpool , Oban , and Eastbourne , and for a longer period in Tunbridge Wells , but eventually returned to Inverness to keep house for her invalid father , whom she outlived by only two years . |
| 8 | He was a South African like Albert , but eventually settled in England and after a period at York City became a postman . |
| 9 | As a foreigner she had great difficulty getting admitted there as an apprentice , but eventually succeeded with assistance from the Duke of Orleans . |
| 10 | Kate Collingwood , who had read Modern Greats at Oxford and was well-known as a luminary of the Kelvedon Players , gave up her seat as a Labour county councillor , was appointed in November 1954 but eventually resigned in December 1957 . |
| 11 | There were red-throated pipits , a bird but rarely seen in Britain while on migration , and which I first identified on Out Skerries . |
| 12 | Mrs Thatcher herself remained an imperious figure , respected , perhaps feared , but rarely viewed with affection . |
| 13 | Such juxtapositions are sometimes experienced in the street but rarely encountered within interiors . |
| 14 | These machines were small in capacity , had primitive communicative abilities but slowly increased in power and capability . |
| 15 | He commented : ‘ While one can observe that a breast is nothing but a modified sweat gland and , indeed , a secondary sexual characteristic , can it truly be heard that breasts are anything but intimately associated with sex or things sexual . ’ |
| 16 | The reforms in education are broadly right , but badly sold to teachers and the public . |
| 17 | The laws cover ritual and worship and many aspects of life — but all seen in relation to him . |
| 18 | The well known excess of leukaemia began around 1979 , at the same time as the increases found by this study in rural areas far removed from any nuclear installation — but all affected by population mixing associated with the oil industry . |
| 19 | In the main courses , steer away from the various stuffed tortillas , some deep-fried and others not , but all topped with loads of sour cream , guacamole and cheese . |
| 20 | A twenty-foot wing-span model powered by a steam engine of Henson origin , but much improved by Stringfellow , was tested in 1845 but could not sustain itself in the air . |
| 21 | Periods of hypoxia were common in the control group , but greatly reduced in patients receiving oxygen . |
| 22 | Primitive in design , maybe , but greatly advanced in thought . |
| 23 | Japan had previously been the largest single user of the nets , up to 50 km long and intended primarily for catching tuna , squid and pink salmon , but fiercely criticized by environmentalists as " walls of death " which caused widespread unintentional deaths of marine mammals and other sea creatures . |
| 24 | For all of them the Passion focuses the terrifyingly destructive forces in human nature and signals the one way by which they are to be rendered ultimately ineffective — a way not isolated in history , but constantly repeated by means of the game of faith . |
| 25 | A most extraordinary ebullient , character , he was one of those lovable teddy-bears , but highly charged with emotion which spilled out at the slightest touch . |
| 26 | It was their equivalent of the Piper Malibu , but entirely constructed of composites . |
| 27 | John Wallace , one of the magistrates of the burgh of Arbroath , explained his reasons for seeking a sinecure appointment worth £50 or so for his son , by emphasising his fear that ‘ the lad will turn out but indifferently qualified for business otherways I should not give so much trouble in asking something for him … |
| 28 | The Emperor heard Mass every Sunday in the Chapel of the Tuileries , a Low Mass but normally accompanied by music . |
| 29 | This difference is crosscut by one of the major questions addressed by Bourdieu in his earlier work ( 1977 ) but largely ignored in Distinction , which is the balance between objectivist approaches such as those found in archaeology , and subjectivist approaches , the most extreme of which would be design history or the study of Chicago homes . |
| 30 | ‘ They have a father , ma'am , ’ Wilson said , gently enough but nevertheless detached from Mrs Browning 's distress , ‘ and each other and will not come to want . |