Example sentences of "but [vb pp] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A scent like the roots of an oak in autumn , hard , but contaminated with the spores of fungi in the mouldering of ochre leaves that fell , layer upon layer , where branches of the Company still leached its old power to spread ever wider … . |
| 2 | Following the rebuilding after World War II one last ring was created , not set on the line of an ancient set of bulwarks , but designed with the future in mind . |
| 3 | It is a system of nerves , separate from but connected with the central nervous system , and it controls most of the unconscious activities of our body , together with the responses of arousal , rapid breathing , sweating , and so on , characteristic of the ‘ fight or flight ’ reaction . |
| 4 | It has the usual big , doleful ballads , smartly arranged and sung , but written with a dictionary of cliches too close to hand . |
| 5 | The music is quite uncharacteristic of the mature Elgar , but written with the clear purpose that the group had something new to play regularly . |
| 6 | By 8 August he was in Barcelona , unable to speak a word of Spanish but armed with a press card . |
| 7 | Total outstanding credit provided by the Fund had also risen ( from SDR24,388 million to SDR25,603 million , but compared with a peak of SDR37,622 million at the end of April 1985 ) . |
| 8 | But compared with the Monnet ideal in France , or the corporate strategy of Japan , Britain had scarcely planned in any meaningful sense at all . |
| 9 | But compared with the potential sacrifice of victims ' rights , this duty is so undemanding that the arguments in its favour are powerful . |
| 10 | But compared with the world of De Carlo 's first novel , where the information garnered by the eye leads to no critical interrogation of reality , Palomar 's , and Calvino 's , project seems almost hopeful . |
| 11 | Rave suffers from a slew of sub-standard rubbish , but compared with the general bollocks Hypno Genesis shine through with a tongue-in-cheek optimism reminiscent of early Altern 8 . |
| 12 | But compared with the European mink , it is more tolerant of human disturbance close by . |
| 13 | We must not overstress this uniformity , for even in the Midlands there are considerable variations , but compared with the variety of landscape elsewhere in England , the Midland pattern is markedly monotonous . |
| 14 | Candidates endorsed by the republic 's nationalist Popular Front-style organization Adradzhenne did better than expected , despite alleged official harassment during the campaign , but compared with the other two Slav republics there were no spectacular upsets . |
| 15 | But , I , I 'm not , you know , because thi but compared with the one that we 've just looked at this is small , but it 's still got plenty of impact . |
| 16 | It was a gloomy jest , but softened with a smile . |
| 17 | The conductivity of the unsaturated carbon-bearing samples ( A3 , A4 ) at near surface conditions was lower than that when saturated with electrolyte , as expected , but increased with the application of confining pressure ( Fig. 1 b ) . |
| 18 | If the bidder is required to issue listing particulars then , as with an offer document , these can be incorporated either in the scheme document , or in a separate document but despatched with the scheme document . |
| 19 | The Government 's post-1987 initiatives have , to some extent , reflected a diagnosis based on the need for better management — though on the principle that central authorities can provide a firmer grip than local ones — but combined with an anti-collectivist belief in the restorative powers of capitalism . |
| 20 | This is an over-statement , but combined with an increasing preference by Government to curtail the content of structure plans , and recently by a Government less disposed to plan making by the public sector anyway , to withdraw structure plans all together , the heady days of 1960s optimism were lost . |
| 21 | Direct-grant schools , formally independent but associated with the maintained system , accounted for a further 1.5 per cent . |
| 22 | But associated with the prohibition is the education and training of workers so that they are aware of the dangers and understand the reason for preventive action . |
| 23 | Finally , and unsurprisingly , the attempted questioning of noun phrase and verb together while " leaving behind " the adjectival property will again produce an incoherent result , as in ( 27 ) where the first sentence is ungrammatical while the second is grammatical but associated with the wrong sort of answer : ( 27 ) what did the raiders do dead ? what should I do longer ? |
| 24 | Opening with a breezy Kabalevskian Overture , Smolsky 's self-avowed folk origins come to the fore in the highly distinctive First Dulcimer Concerto , composed in a broadly neo-classical style ( typically spiced with an occasional dash of bi-tonality ) , but imbued with an expressive force which transcends the often impersonal stance that such an approach can result in . |