Example sentences of "but [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the rest the LoProfile had most to offer but lacked the extra function keys of the Fuller . |
| 2 | In the final minutes of the spacecraft 's descent , Soviet ground controllers tried to guide it towards the ocean but lacked the necessary fuel . |
| 3 | Maybe , Charles reflected , his son-in-law was the result of some cloning experiment , by which creatures from another planet had created something that looked like a human being , but lacked the essential circuitry of humanity . |
| 4 | The Romans appreciated fine art but lacked the artistic sense of the Greeks . |
| 5 | Samuel Barber 's Adagio for Strings was well enough played but lacked the last ounce of passion , and suffered badly from the aurally obtrusive air conditioning system , Randall Thompson 's Alleluya showed that the Festival Chorus on this occasion were equally as adept at unaccompanied singing as their counterparts had been last week . |
| 6 | Cork were playing into the strong wind in the first half but made the early running with a sixth minute goal from Barry Egan . |
| 7 | It has raised the wage that firms must pay but lowered the take-home wage for workers . |
| 8 | Relative to the original equilibrium wage W , the imposition of the tax on wages has raised the pre-tax wage to W ' ; , but lowered the after-tax wage to W ’ ; . |
| 9 | You probably wo n't be surprised to learn then , that those past masters of glam-drag dressing-up , Marc Bolan and Adam Ant , are two of Justin 's heroes , whom he says came from ‘ an underground scene but realised the only way to put their music across , to really entertain people , is to get right out there in the main arena . ’ |
| 10 | He had aimed to go to Cambridge to read geography , but failed the Latin entrance examination it was necessary to take in those days . |
| 11 | The surge of expansion and commitment to equality ( in some of its many forms ) which underlay this conviction sat uncomfortably with notions of selection at eleven-plus , but reinforced the rising demand for a huge expansion of higher education . |
| 12 | He not only used very expressive ports de bras for his other-worldly characters but changed the usual conception of classical pointe-work . |
| 13 | Then on Pentecost Sunday , Pentecost Day , ten days after the Ascension and fifty days after then resurrection , the apostles had an experience which not only changed them but changed the whole history of the world . |
| 14 | He did not merely jump on the bandwagon of the great railway boom , but rethought the whole business from scratch and — with sound reasoning — adopted a broad gauge ( 7 feet ) which only had to be converted to the ‘ standard ’ gauge of 4 feet 8½ inches after nearly sixty years because it had become isolated from the rest of the country 's railway network . |
| 15 | This pleased those who feared big tax increases , but disappointed the fiscal purists who hoped to see the removal of anomalies . |
| 16 | In their final communiqué issued on Aug. 9 , Foreign Ministers " expressed sorrow over the ordeal to which the Iraqi people are being subjected " but charged the Iraqi regime with " full responsibility for the human and material losses " incurred by its invasion of Kuwait , and stressed that Iraq 's " non-commitment to implementation " of all UN resolutions " necessitat[ed] the continuation of sanctions " . |
| 17 | They left in place the post of general secretary instead of introducing the office of party chairman , but created the new post of deputy general secretary . |
| 18 | Mr Key found little or no harm done to Jane Cox , but found the small body of her newborn child wrapped in the bedclothes . |
| 19 | At British level Rob was finding his feet as a coach , but found the initial lack of funding frustrating . |
| 20 | The model accorded quite well with the idea of locally devolved team work ( Hadley and McGrath , 1980 ) , but contradicted the long-standing beliefs in genericism ( Pinker , 1990 ) . |
| 21 | He did not go to university but entered the Middle Temple in 1607 . |
| 22 | After a voir dire the judge admitted the oral admissions but excluded the written confession , because ( a ) the breaches of C 11.5 and 11.6 were relatively trivial ; ( b ) it would have been impracticable to have a contemporaneous note of the conversation and there was therefore no breach of C 11.3(b) ( ii ) ; ( c ) Findlay was shown the notes as recorded in the custody record and there was no need to record the refusal in the pocket book as well ; ( d ) there was a serious breach of section 58 and Code C 6.3 in ordering Findlay to be kept incommunicado without sufficient reason and therefore although the interview leading to the written confession was itself fairly conducted the confession would be excluded . |
| 23 | Siumut lost votes but retained the 11 seats it held in the outgoing Landsting . |
| 24 | There was a pagan belief that the soul of a murdered person never entered Paradise , but wandered the terrestrial regions seeking retribution . |
| 25 | In this sort of atmosphere the arguments of those like Charles Hopwood , MP for Stockport , who accepted social-purity arguments about prostitution but opposed the Criminal Law Amendment Act , were drowned . |
| 26 | It was also in a serious financial position but believed the new Regulations would lead to a general amelioration of the deficit position through the ability to earn increased Board of Education grants for its Chapter III work . |
| 27 | Slimane Bekki and John Pyle said they could not calculate the effect on ozone depletion , but believed the northern hemisphere would be worst affected , because it has most of the main air routes . |
| 28 | Amnesty said that the torture of those detained by the army and police was a daily routine , and that it had received reports of more than 200 cases of torture over the past two years , but believed the true figure to be much higher . |
| 29 | Until very recently the paediatricians did not concern themselves with pain as such but adopted the direct approach of seeking to locate diseased tissue and to restore that tissue . |
| 30 | The rising hope of English squash , Cassie Jackman , also made the last eight , but dropped the first game before asserting herself against unseeded Linda Charman , who is a vastly improved player this season . |