Example sentences of "but make [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During that autumn ( of 1937 ) he attended a few more commemorative occasions but made no political speeches . |
| 2 | He had mooted the idea of becoming a teacher but made no serious attempts to do anything about it . |
| 3 | Nicephorus ' fleet harried the accessible southern coasts in retribution , but made no firm gains . |
| 4 | Geneva was also the location for the START ( Strategic Arms Reduction ) talks , which began in June 1982 but made no more progress . |
| 5 | The defenders paid the deposit on acceptance but made no further payments . |
| 6 | Azmaveth nodded , but made no further comment . |
| 7 | He did not answer , and Murtach raised his eyebrows but made no further comment . |
| 8 | Old Mel answered with a grunt but made no further reply . |
| 9 | ‘ They left furs , stereos and other valuables but made a terrible mess looking for cash and jewels , especially in the bedrooms . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , yes , perhaps it would be better , ’ Sophie said , but made a mental note to refuse all further invitations . |
| 11 | He would have gone straight home but made a short diversion when he found Pike the ditcher drunk as a bishop on the corner of the trackway leading down to the church . |
| 12 | She was severely injured but made a full recovery . |
| 13 | Then keeper Peter Turtle stopped a John Smyth pile-driver , but made a quick recovery to grab the ball as it was trickling over the line . |
| 14 | The argument is feeble , but made a natural appeal to those who wanted to prove racial inferiority , e.g. of blacks to whites — or for that matter of anyone to whites . |
| 15 | I was down for Jo Ro but made a last-minute escape . |
| 16 | Cork were playing into the strong wind in the first half but made the early running with a sixth minute goal from Barry Egan . |
| 17 | But make a full copy if the transfer is n't in the simplest form — if , for example , it contains restrictions or a grant or reservation of easements . |
| 18 | We must make the facts known to him , but make no open accusation . |
| 19 | If you find a new diet in a magazine , or you decide to lose weight , the chances are that you pick your day for starting but make no special preparation plans . |
| 20 | There is also the possibility of an air blockade which would not only guard against sanctions busting but make the Serbian air force desist from its present bombing campaign . |
| 21 | There is a feeling that if the wording were changed to ‘ seeking to interfere with play ’ it would spare the player who is in an offside position but making a genuine attempt to stay onside by , for example , running back towards the halfway line . |
| 22 | Fold the sides , hem in place and treat as for Unlined Curtains , but making a double 5cm ( 2in ) hem . |
| 23 | Originally the Irish FA considered spending the entire period on tour but making the two trips has proved more financially viable . |
| 24 | He did it not because he liked people that night but to make a moral point about something or other . |
| 25 | So if you are not a UK taxpayer you are advised not to make a payment under the Gift Aid scheme but to make a straight payment by cash or cheque . |
| 26 | His aim in this and other speeches was not to indicate his solution to the crisis ( although that was often how his words were heard ) but to make an emotional connection with each of the major parties to the conflict ( the settlers , the Muslims , and the army ) as well as with the population at home . |
| 27 | But to make the current flow you first add a little acid or alkali ( electrolyte ) . |
| 28 | Each node contains one letter rather than one word , thus allowing for the study of sub-word letter sequences , but to make the searching algorithm most efficient , all 26 routes from every node in the tree must be allowed for , and on average most of these are wasted . |
| 29 | The alternative is to simply stitch across the bottom of the sleeping bag ‘ tube ’ but to make the bottom seam vertical rather than horizontal , producing a fish-tail shape . |
| 30 | Nolan J. accepted that , as a practical matter , Woolwich had little choice but to make the three payments . |