Example sentences of "but [vb past] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took food by mouth but passed 5–8 motions a day and probably absorbed little of it . |
| 2 | The use of these names became accepted by the recipient for most were not used derisively but became natural names . |
| 3 | communicating to keep employees challenged and informed through informal but planned face-to-face contacts |
| 4 | Presteigne ( the modern spelling ) had a railway connection , completed in 1875 but planned some years earlier ( see below ) , which lasted right up till Dr Beeching 's Axe . |
| 5 | He applauded those measures , such as Lloyd George 's budget of 1909 , which tended to diminish social inequality , but attacked all moves to increase state centralization and control over the individual . |
| 6 | Then there were those who were powerful , but lacked other virtues . |
| 7 | ( This is how the story is recorded in Luke 13:6–9 , where the fig tree stood for the self-righteous people , such as the Pharisees , who made a great show of their religion but produced few results . |
| 8 | It was taken over by the Pittard Group in 1987 but made serious losses in the last three years . |
| 9 | This patient was actually normal at reading regular words and non-words ( in terms of accuracy and reading time ) , but made many errors in reading exception words . |
| 10 | In the reign of Henry III they accounted for the agistment dues at the Exchequer , but made substantial payments into the Wardrobe from time to time , and paid out sums locally for such purposes as the maintenance of a neighbouring royal castle , building operations , the enclosure of a royal park , and the expenses incurred by the Forest officers in taking venison for the king . |
| 11 | Were he to appear now , in the moonlit room , Chant would not have accused him of negligence , but made proper obeisances and been glad that his inspiration had returned . |
| 12 | In state assembly by-elections Congress ( I ) suffered losses in Kerala and Goa , but made some gains in Andhra Pradesh , Bihar , Karnataka , Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal . |
| 13 | They had a son but divorced eight years later , and did not see each other for the next 45 years , until January when they met at an 80th birthday party of Dougan 's sister Gwendoline . |
| 14 | From the beginning of his career Ashton frequently used the old stereotypes but created unique dances which can be called a translation of favourite comic play into the language of ballet . |
| 15 | Also on March 24 , the embattled Traoré told opposition leaders that he would not resign , but promised early elections . |
| 16 | President Alberto Keinya Fujimori , in an unexpected address to the meeting , defended his April 5 presidential coup [ see pp. 38846-47 ] , but promised direct elections within five months to establish a " Democratic Constituent Congress " . |
| 17 | He was an Iranian who had fled Iran but maintained grey connections there ; a balding , smooth-skinned , soft-spoken man with brown protruding eyes . |
| 18 | She used a range of textbooks and workbooks ( but analysed large segments of text only — not short sections such as questions or exercises ) . |
| 19 | He collected data from sixty-nine countries ( but excluded all countries in Africa ) on such economic variables as GNP per head , calories consumed per head , and gross energy consumed per head and compared these to years of secondary schooling — general and vocational . |
| 20 | The latter , s.92(1) ( f ) , a sweeping up provision , would include , for example , ‘ any pond , pool , ditch , gutter or watercourse prejudicial to health or a nuisance ’ , designated a statutory nuisance by s.259(1) ( a ) , and under s.101 certain smoke nuisances , the Clean Air Act 1956 having introduced a new system of control over emissions from chimneys but retained certain emissions as statutory nuisances subject to the control of the 1936 Act . |
| 21 | Lifted the embargo on food exports to Iraq but retained other sanctions , subject to bi-monthly review , with exceptions for specifically humanitarian purposes . |
| 22 | Hertfordshire detectives admit they have contacted Australian colleagues , but dismissed any links between the two incidents as pure speculation . |
| 23 | Later studies of permanent quadrats in grassland by Sagar , Sarukhän , Hawthorn and others ( see Harper , 1977 ) extended over fewer years but involved repeated observations within each year . |
| 24 | The Holst work is played in an unusually emphatic manner , which in the end gives it more stature than it sometimes achieves in performance ( the composer himself recorded this work with rather similar regard to rhythm and accents , but used faster tempos ) . |
| 25 | He was not a chemist but adopted innovatory methods and used commercial skill to promote his products . |
| 26 | The victims , Pauline Leyshon and Ivor Stokle escaped from the car but suffered horrific burns . |
| 27 | Ivor Stokle and Pauline Leyshon managed to escape from the car , but suffered horrific burns . |
| 28 | Lee Homburg , brother of Adrian Johns , survived after jumping , but suffered serious burns . |
| 29 | Bush claimed that the summit had set an " aggressive agenda " in the war on drugs , but rejected Peruvian requests for more US aid . |
| 30 | IRA bombs in Reading and here on the Banbury to Marylebone main line fortunately hurt no-one but caused widespread delays for commuters . |