Example sentences of "but [vb past] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A singer of poignant songs , Rikoran was born near Mukden in Manchuria in 1920 of Japanese parents , but lived as a young girl with a Chinese family . |
| 2 | He had married Jemima Mott in 1816 but lived as a childless widower from 1829 after the death of his wife . |
| 3 | Mrs Thatcher , however , claimed that the riots had nothing to do with unemployment and deprivation , but arose as a direct consequence of a lack of discipline within the family and in the schools . |
| 4 | He was not accepted into the department of meteorology but registered as a student in the department of mathematics , where he wrote a doctoral thesis on ‘ The Theory of Development in Dynamical Meteorology ’ . |
| 5 | The decision was a major boost for Scotland 's fish processors who need foreign imports to remain viable , but came as a bitter blow to British fishermen hit by the turmoil at the quayside auctions . |
| 6 | This illustrated the leadership 's caution and carefulness in committing the entire Labour movement to their entry into office in a broad-based coalition headed by a Conservative leader long regarded as the bitter enemy of the movement but recognised as a formidable fighting man — Winston Churchill . |
| 7 | King , reviled by many , but acknowledged as an expert in the cynical exploitation of the pop world sniped : ‘ I thought when Kylie Minogue did ‘ I Should Be So Lucky , Lucky , Lucky , ’ it was one of the most awful things I have ever heard . |
| 8 | Astrid Klein was trained at art school but began as a writer . |
| 9 | Whilst the stipend supported him and his growing family , he probably never resided there but served as a chaplain in the Royal Army ; in this capacity he was taken prisoner in 1645 in an attack on Cardigan Castle in Wales . |
| 10 | ACT on the proposed dividend should not be included with the dividend , but included as a current tax liability . |
| 11 | ACT on the proposed dividend should not be included with the dividend , but included as a current tax liability . |
| 12 | He not only read widely about German government and trade but worked as an apprentice for a week or two each with painters , weavers , dyers and smiths . |
| 13 | As seen above with need and dare , therefore , it is only when ought is not asserted but conceived as a mere possibility that it can cease to constitute a before-position with respect to the event expressed by the infinitive and be followed by the bare infinitive . |
| 14 | Abroad , the German princes who had reformed their churches along Lutheran lines saw Henry as a potential ally against their common enemy , the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V , but demanded as a preliminary to a political alliance that he accept their Protestant statement of faith , the Augsburg Confession of 1530 . |
| 15 | The 23-year-old has been on a weekly contract since last season , but emerged as a leading figure following the injury to Paul Elliott . |
| 16 | The party was not the product of a distinct working-class movement informed by a corpus of political theory , but emerged as a pragmatic response to new challenges , and subsequently developed through political expedience . |
| 17 | Birmingham 's Curzon Street , with its Ionic portico , the Midlands ' equivalent of the triumphal arch at Euston , was replaced as passenger terminal in 1854 by New Street Station but continued as a goods station . |
| 18 | I implored him not to , but he was adamant , thus following Rear Admiral Poland who had resigned from Muirfield in consequence of my being blackballed there ( ‘ it makes no sense at all ’ , he wrote to the secretary , ‘ that he can be accepted as a guest but blackballed as a member ’ ) : both were sacrifices for which I felt a personal responsibility and which caused me much distress . |
| 19 | But quoted as the same size alright ? |
| 20 | He immediately began making anonymous donations to charity — but stayed as an agent with Kleeneze . |