Example sentences of "but [vb past] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The glitzy building — boasting an address on Bishopsgate , now one of the City 's favoured streets — was opened just three years ago but became an obvious target once the bank needed to put the family silver up for auction to improve its financial standing . |
| 2 | He did n't make any comment , but found an unbroken glass and filled it with Valpolicella . |
| 3 | He retired from the University but retained an honorary professorship . |
| 4 | He took up an idea from a previous inventor , an Englishman named Charles Babbage , namely the punched card , but designed an electro-mechanical device called a tabulator to ‘ read ’ the information contained on the card . |
| 5 | Kaunda said that his country 's experience of multiparty politics — from independence in 1964 to the prohibition of opposition parties in 1973 — had been " a sad one " , but predicted an optimistic future for Zambian democracy and announced that he was looking forward to " a good fight " in elections scheduled for October 1992 . |
| 6 | In the meantime , Nestorian thought not only continued to survive elsewhere , but displayed an astonishing tenacity . |
| 7 | The inquest into his death found he 'd taken nine times the usual dose of LSD … but recorded an open verdict . |
| 8 | A BBC spokesman subsequently pointed out that the corporation did not maintain an office in the Iranian capital , but employed an Iranian journalist on a part-time basis . |
| 9 | It was but a short hop from their first rooms in St George 's Square but represented an enormous leap in lifestyle . |
| 10 | Franco had been grateful to receive Italian planes in July and August , but he was not happy with the massive despatch of foot-soldiers , partly because Mussolini had the temerity to send more than had been agreed , and partly because the Duce insisted that they were not deployed as part of the Spanish Army , but formed an independent corps , with their own officers . |
| 11 | She looked up sharply , but suppressed an angry retort . |
| 12 | They say they wo n't buy mahogany from loggers convicted of malpractice , but insisted an immediate stop on the trade would cost jobs . |
| 13 | It was never quite that , despite the music 's associations with Dracula and Frankenstein , but proved an entertaining affair . |
| 14 | This was hardly a rational allocation of talent for an industry which , above all others , was capital-intensive , but had an unrivalled record of good labour relations . |
| 15 | Taffy spent the majority of his time at B U as a serviceman at Risden and Leicester branches , but had an eighteen month period during world war two assembling jet engines at Powerjets , Wexton His wife and he lives in Spencefield area of Leicester . |
| 16 | The Danish infusion did increase yields but had an adverse effect on food conversion rates , longevity and hardiness so that the experiment waned . |
| 17 | It looked like any other frugal coffin , but had an ingenious device — two doors at the bottom opened when a lever was pulled . |
| 18 | Allegheny West 's population was predominantly white ( 90 per cent ) , had doubled its owner occupancy level from 1970 to 1980 ( from a low base of 6 per cent ) , but had an average income of one-third of the city average . |
| 19 | Six weeks later he felt somewhat better but had an immediate flare-up of painful , bleeding hemorrhoids on the left side , an old symptom . |
| 20 | He never married , but had an illegitimate son , Hezekiah Knowles . |
| 21 | It became apparent to them that the Masai did not wander haphazardly about , ignorantly destroying grazing and oblivious to the control of cattle disease , but had an indigenous system of pasture management and far more understanding of the nature of cattle disease than settlers , and even the Veterinary Department , supposed . |
| 22 | The truck was of the usual Brill 21E design with truss rods , but carried an additional pair of wheels under the motor springs at one end with rail brushes . |
| 23 | Wyllie should have made it 13-0 , but missed an easy drop goal in front of the posts . |
| 24 | The control subjects did not receive either placebo or loperamide oxide tablets but underwent an identical series of measurements on one occasion . |