Example sentences of "but [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But alert neighbours Alan and Beatrice Eales heard the noises and called the police . |
| 2 | The ‘ Isle of Brasil ’ was mythical , but fifteenth-century Atlantic charts suggest that belief in lands across the ocean was not uncommon , and there is more than just possibility that the Bristol men had heard of some landfall in them before 1480 , perhaps when ships had been blown off course by abnormal wind conditions . |
| 3 | But low hydrogen yields and poisoned catalysts soon had these systems grinding to a halt . |
| 4 | They do not include possibly correct but low scoring word matches . |
| 5 | That 's in the open ocean in enclosed basins , for example the Black Sea , many fjords and sea lochs , the deep waters are not renewed by water masses moving in from other areas in the way that they are in the open ocean and there anoxia can occur in the deep waters , that is the oxygen can be completely removed by biological activity particularly in degradation processes of organic matter , bacterial respiration so anoxic conditions can occur in isolated deep basins but low oxygen concentrations are actually very rare in the open ocean . |
| 6 | Many useful , but low priority bills have their origins in this procedure . |
| 7 | It 's made from a length of airline which is glued with silicone sealer to a length of thin , but strong dowelling rod , which is about 6″ longer than the height of the tank . |
| 8 | But European Commissioner Bruce Millan has long argued that Britain is out of step because it includes European money in its allocations to local authorities . |
| 9 | But European car makers fortunes were mixed . |
| 10 | But Prudential finance director Michael Lawrence says that the bids put in by all the firms on the tender shortlist were ‘ virtually all of an allness on fees ’ . |
| 11 | He may be approaching 37 , but durable England tighthead prop Jeff Probyn has no plans to give way to ‘ the fresh-faced kids ’ just yet . |
| 12 | Most of the larger villages which could economically be connected already had electricity supplies on nationalisation , but rural pressure groups had been successful in gaining an opposition amendment to the 1947 Electricity Act safeguarding further development by enjoining the Boards to ‘ secure , so far as practicable , the development , extension to rural areas and cheapening of supplies of electricity ’ . |
| 13 | Alongside a new Level 300 Series of ‘ compact ’ DRS 6000 servers , most of which use Texas Instruments Inc 's SuperSparc processor , the company , as expected ( CI No 2,138 ) , unveiled three new high-end multiprocessors that use Cypress Semiconductor Corp 's rival , but plug-compatible HyperSparc RISC . |
| 14 | Today there is a large but discreet caravan park around the farm . |
| 15 | More than 68,000 persons were killed and more than 2 million injured on British roads in the 10 years prior to the outbreak of war , but Tripp was able to advocate not just improvements to major roads as one way of reducing the number of fatalities and accidents , but complete road systems . |
| 16 | Their main role is search and rescue , but economic zone surveillance is also undertaken . |
| 17 | In the last category was a proposal from Sir Stafford Cripps , British Ambassador in Moscow , for the occupation of the coal-mining and strategic island of Spitzbergen ( see map p. 28 ) , but Allied sea power would not stretch to convoying supplies for a garrison so far from home waters . |
| 18 | A company can not be authorised if it does not comply with these essential standards but each member state can impose additional standards of its own on its own nationals ( in the case of financial resources requirements , for example ) . |
| 19 | We have succeeded since in getting it down to something just over thirty four percent now er and erm therefore we are not much above our original work share but each percentage point of equipment costs us about ten million pounds extra . |
| 20 | Not only that , but each cuckoo pigments her eggs so that they roughly match those of her host . |
| 21 | Notice that the graph line has the same slope as x = y , but each y value is one place higher than the x value at any point on the line . |
| 22 | He 's been arrested 32 times for shoplifting , but each time magistrates ruled the offences were n't serious enough for him to be detained , where he might have got the treatment he needs . |
| 23 | He moved home three times in Darlington , but each time Leanne and the children would reappear in his life . |
| 24 | Comecon , he points out , was coercive in that a Member State was unable to secede ; this is not yet the case within the EEC , but protectionist trade policies make non-membership a very difficult option for largely agricultural countries . |
| 25 | Further information on the quantities used will be needed from the military authorities , but 500 bomb tests scattering 500 curies of polonium-210 implies an average deposit concentration of 0.1 nanocuries per sq . |
| 26 | And , finally , the machineheads are not Kluson copies , as you might expect , but tubby-buttoned Schaller copies . |
| 27 | So the ideal as far as federal government is concerned is they , they devise policy guidelines and they provide financial inducements to states to implement various programmes but when it comes down to it they run up against the rock of the constitution and the constitution says that the states derive their authority from this sacred document and they are not to be tampered with and the consequence is that America has , not only a federal government , but fifty state governments er and those state governments are large enterprises which enjoy wide initiative and they contributors , contribute to the divi diversity of the United States as a political system . |
| 28 | The idea may defy the commonly accepted principles of the art of conjuring but fifty years age there was a small and enthusiastic group of nude conjurors . |
| 29 | If dominant strategy types are surrounded by a neighbourhood of similar ( but non-dominant strategy types ) the lower bound on equilibrium payoffs survives . |
| 30 | This is because MouseMan Cordless has its roller ball sited further forward , virtually under one 's forefinger and it took a bit of time getting used to , as did a small but perceptible response lag . |