Example sentences of "but [vb pp] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the provisions on young offenders , the Act contained administrative changes , including one dear to the heart of the Home Office which had been tried before , but withdrawn by the Home Secretary in the face of strong criticism when the Criminal Justice Bill 1947 was considered at Committee Stage in the Commons . |
| 2 | The notices cluster along main streets and around candidates ' homes , and analysis suggests they were not posted at whim , but organised by the candidates . |
| 3 | Saturday of eighth week found her breathless and becolded , but heartened by the energy of third year Somervillians , bursting with ideas , talking of running B. R. and thinking of the next century . |
| 4 | It is now in Glen House , Innerleithen , Peeblesshire , which is still owned by Lord Glenconner but operated by a private company as a conference centre . |
| 5 | Maria hesitated , self-consciously aware of the stupidity of resistance now when their relationship was a fait accompli and irreversible , but disturbed by the way he was regarding her . |
| 6 | In the standard paradigm the two communicators are seated at a table opposite one another but separated by a screen so as to restrict communication to the verbal channel . |
| 7 | Adjacent to Caliban to the west , but separated by a small ravine which prevented direct access from one property to the other , was a house Vertigo built on a similar shaped area of land measuring 2.742 acres also fronting onto the ocean . |
| 8 | Reading Lucas 's article from this side of the Atlantic at a time when unemployment in Britain seems about to hit a post-war high , one is tempted to conclude that there may , after all , be a grain of truth in the mischievous quip attributed to Oscar Wilde : Britain and America are united by a common culture but separated by a common language . |
| 9 | There are scenes in variety , but connected by an interesting theme and one that she made particularly her own , the self-deceiver . |
| 10 | Funding levels must be determined by a standard formula , drawn up by the LEA but approved by the Secretary of State . |
| 11 | All attempts by the parents to have a Lydia or a Charles would be doomed to failure : one Lydia just lived to see her first birthday — the first two years of life seeming to be the most dangerous by far for the poor little infants — and the next passed away at the age of three , baptised at St John 's but buried by the Baptists of Badcox Lane . |
| 12 | The angular shape was obviously modelled on the front half of a mining ship , but modelled by a madman with no sense of proportion . |
| 13 | The Polish Republic was proclaimed at the end of December 1989 , thus restoring the formal name which had been adopted after independence in 1918 but replaced by the name Polish People 's Republic in 1947 . |
| 14 | The Southern Ocean is a broad , deep ring of water , contiguous with the southern Atlantic , Indian and Pacific oceans but bounded by the Antarctic Convergence ( p. 11 ) . |
| 15 | Aid to Families with Dependent Children ( AFDC ) is Federally funded but administered by the State governments , within rules provided by the funding agency . |
| 16 | Abruptly she turned away from him and walked into the apartment 's lounge , not consciously knowing why she did so , but driven by a need to get away from this man and the harshness of his condemnation , which should n't matter to her , because he did n't matter , but which nevertheless called up a churning confusion of resentment and frustration , as well as a new , unnerving hurt . |
| 17 | So biology has returned to us our castrated clitoris — but accompanied by a health warning . |
| 18 | You may recall that I proposed earlier a scheme to do just that — namely , the registration of a new entry , but accompanied by a code known to the Registrar which would alert him in any case of attempted fraud . |
| 19 | Readers of this paper will need no reminding of the way in which the important recommendations of the Warnock committee were encapsulated in the 1981 Act but accompanied by a clear negative statement : ‘ There will be no additional funds ’ . |
| 20 | It works in Central America with green iguana which are no longer poached but protected by the people and the ex-poachers who are being trained to farm them . |
| 21 | Quite an impressive list , but marked by a complete absence of public interest considerations . |
| 22 | The other kind , lacking succinic acid but marked by the presence of organic sulphur , is at home in the Mediterranean . |
| 23 | The commission , supposedly independent but appointed by the military government , said that it was investigating various claims of irregularities made against the candidates . |
| 24 | As for the New Boisterous , the cheery spree of custard colours and polemical beiges that are the persistently ‘ new ’ colourmotion , let's get it straight — the State of Pop is not Grey , but over-determined by a stifling , cloning rainbow coalition of mediocrity . |
| 25 | After the first half hour I was hooked by its beautifully lucid narrative , but thrown by the guffaw factor in some scenes . |
| 26 | Now , being formal , but motivated by the above , we make Definition 2.2.1 A binary relation on a set A is a subset of A x A. |
| 27 | Nigel was disgusted but intrigued by the lengths Eleanor had gone to . |
| 28 | He had seemed puzzled but intrigued by the clogged , uncouth sketches of peasants . |
| 29 | The word trespasser has anti-social connotations , and to say that a duty was automatically owed to a trespasser but qualified by the standard , may have been too sophisticated . |
| 30 | Thus correction involves substituting the correct spelling of the intended word for its misspelled counterpart , but controlled by the user . |