Example sentences of "but [vb past] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JD and the Left Front parties ruled out participation in a coalition , but agreed to support a Congress ( I ) minority government from outside on specific issues . |
| 2 | Central and Fife are understood to be less enthusiastic but agreed to support the idea . |
| 3 | EAST GERMANY yesterday effectively barred its citizens from Czechoslovakia , but agreed to allow the second wave of refugees crammed into the West German embassy in Prague to leave for the West . |
| 4 | Later , in the Court of Appeal , Lord Donaldson , Master of the Rolls , refused a stay in the order pending an appeal , but agreed to allow the notes to be given to the court in a sealed envelope , to be returned unopened if the appeal succeeded . |
| 5 | The 13-member cartel again failed to set firm quotas for individual members [ see pp. 37641 ; 37930 ; 38122 ] but agreed to raise the collective output ceiling from 22,300,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) to 23,650,000 bpd for the fourth quarter of 1991 . |
| 6 | He was plagued by ill health in his youth but recovered to enter the vellum bookbinding trade , with which he was associated in a variety of capacities for nearly forty years . |
| 7 | In a lull , she drifted up to see to the babies , but misjudged mounting the stair ; Bridhe , desperate for more hands , was coming down and grabbed her . |
| 8 | Jack McGarva , defending , said his client was not responsible for all the graffiti but admitted causing the damage on a large number of occasions . |
| 9 | On March 9 , on the eve of Super Tuesday , Harkin announced the ending of his campaign , but avoided expressing a preference for any of the remaining Democratic candidates . |
| 10 | During 1991 , for instance , Hi-Five 's ‘ I Like The Way ( The Kissing Game ) ’ , a Jive release , headed the US listings but failed to dent the Top 40 here , a similar fate befalling Surface 's ‘ The First Time ’ . |
| 11 | He said British Rail 's Passenger 's Charter , which was launched this week , ‘ looked good on paper but failed to tackle the heart of the problem . ’ |
| 12 | Giles led the team of surgeons who , in 1988 , fought valiantly but failed to save the life of Russell Harty , the writer and broadcaster . |
| 13 | Wilson journeyed to Hull but failed to heal the breach . |
| 14 | WHEN three European foreign ministers trooped off to Moscow last week , Mikhail Gorbachev talked politely about the Gulf war but failed to mention the peace plan he was about to launch . |
| 15 | In summing-up the judge directed the jury fully on the standard of proof but failed to mention the burden of proof . |
| 16 | Daisy suddenly wanted to check her face , and when he went off at the end of the chukka to talk to the next group playing , which included Perdita , she toned down her rosy cheeks and drenched her neck with Je Reviens , but failed to put the top back on properly , so it stank out the Land-Rover . |
| 17 | They also agreed to a near doubling of aid to the Third World , but failed to reach a common position on the period of time over which the increase would be phased in . |
| 18 | Delegations from Syria , Iraq and Turkey met in Damascus on Oct. 2-4 but failed to reach a regional agreement on sharing the waters of the Euphrates and Tigris . |
| 19 | Earlier , the new Conflict Prevention Centre of the CSCE met for the first time in Vienna on July 1-2 , as requested by Austria , and called for an immediate ceasefire and the return of the JNA to barracks , but failed to reach the necessary unanimity on sending a CSCE observer mission . |
| 20 | Chamorro paid a state visit to the USA in April 1991 , the first by a Nicaraguan President for 52 years , but failed to receive a definite commitment on additional US aid . |
| 21 | A larger crowd than normal subsequently turned up at Cardiff to see if Gover 's cure had worked , and Griffin sent down 18 blameless overs but failed to take a wicket . |
| 22 | ‘ The fourth aircraft dropped outside the Harbour in an attempt to run a torpedo through the breakwater but failed to see the result . |
| 23 | Mr McNeil said the region had tried but failed to persuade the CRE to conduct the same inquiry on a nationwide basis , and regretted its decision to proceed . |
| 24 | Automatic cameras snapped a picture of Nichola Grabauskas 's Metro number plate and the back of the breakdown truck but failed to spot the tow rope . |
| 25 | She was booked onto a flight arriving in London at midday but failed to board the plane . |
| 26 | US Secretary of State James Baker and Israel 's ambassador to the USA Zalman Shoval met for a third round of talks in Washington on Feb. 21 but failed to arrange a compromise agreement on the terms of Israel 's request for loan guarantees worth US$10,000 million to be used for the absorption of new Jewish immigrants . |
| 27 | The nadir is property of F R Lees who in 1860 stood , doubtless upright , for the Temperance Chartist party in Ripon but failed to trouble the scorers . |
| 28 | In any technical comment you make , please remember that a former editor made a passionate technical plea for the retention of 405 lines but failed to realise the commercial advantages which had then already accrued in the 625 line camp . |
| 29 | In elections to the National Assembly on April 26 [ see p. 36019 ] , the DJP emerged as the largest single party but failed to retain an overall majority for the first time since its formation in 1981 . |
| 30 | In elections to the National Assembly on April 26 , 1988 , the DJP emerged as the largest single party but failed to retain an overall majority for the first time since its formation in 1981 [ see pp. 36019-22 ] . |