Example sentences of "but [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The treatment is quite expensive but produces visible benefits after just ten days . |
| 2 | This is much slower than using a desk-top publishing system , but enforces consistent formatting and , some day , should assist in putting the journals into a database so that the information can be accessed easily . |
| 3 | Terry Bickers left The House Of Love to rise to autonomous heights with Levitation but bungles total accomplishment on vocal ability only . |
| 4 | Situated in an elevated position in a peaceful area along a panoramic road , this pensione is only 800 yards from the shops and cafés of Malcesine 's town centre but offers beautiful views of the lake . |
| 5 | This is a fairly traditional arcade adventure but offers excellent graphics and several neat , distinctive touches . |
| 6 | Elizabeth Jane 's china display on the Welsh dresser , for example , is basically blue and white china , but incorporates honey-coloured pottery , glass jars and grand porcelain teapots . |
| 7 | In a separate speech to European Parliamentarians , President Mitterrand said that ‘ an opening to the East is not in contradiction with but reinforces European unity . |
| 8 | City Comment : Treasury gets new team but needs new ideas |
| 9 | The whole technique of communication is far too detailed for this paper but needs special care in such ‘ mixed ’ situations . |
| 10 | Clever Folly , winner of the A F Budge Chase at Cheltenham two years ago , has already scored twice at the track this season but needs fast conditions . |
| 11 | This is easily seen in the mundane example of housework , which can not be done by making sporadic once-off assaults on it , but needs constant attention . |
| 12 | Worthwhile marketing is n't a ‘ hit and run ’ activity but needs sustained effort , it 's not necessarily expensive as it 's more to do with attitude and ingenuity rather than resources . |
| 13 | According to David Downes , Dutch elites have ‘ a distinct appreciation of the extent to which community tolerance can not be taken for granted , but needs active elicitation and encouragement ’ . |
| 14 | This is presumably not Clinton 's intention , but illustrates short-term advantages taking precedence over long-term objectives . |
| 15 | He can not work but wants interesting things to do in the day time . |
| 16 | Born in Germany and raised around the Chiltern Hills , Robert is no ‘ fair dinkum ’ Aussie , but holds dual citizenship after about 10 years down under . |
| 17 | The area feels firm but has irregular nodules which can be painful to touch . |
| 18 | The Riesling Clos Häuserer 1988 ( £7.25 ) is tight and steely on the nose but has great fruit purity and excellent acidity on the palate — needs time but will be superb . |
| 19 | This method has nothing in common with the pivotal method , but has great advantages in certain circumstances . |
| 20 | Generally silent , but has various barking or crow-like calls . |
| 21 | Viridian has a place on many palettes ; it is slightly less brash than phthalocyanine green , but has similar transparency and hue . |
| 22 | In contrast with patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis , and to HIV-infected patients in general , increasing age was protective in AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis ; this paradoxical effect is unexplained but has wide confidence limits and a type I error ( of small numbers ) can not be absolutely excluded . |
| 23 | This is by far the commonest cavity for lasers in general , but has major drawbacks from a theoretical standpoint : the standing-wave pattern greatly complicates the atomic response and can also lead to multimode operation , and time and space are much more intimately mixed in the feedback process . |
| 24 | However , bullish and bearish money spreads can be combined to create a potential profit in a situation where the share price is not expected to move and in a situation where the price is expected to move but has equal probabilities of rising and falling . |
| 25 | The DVR Company currently leases the Buckfastleigh line to the South Devon Railway Trust at a peppercorn rent , but has overall control of the revenues from the cafe and bookshop as well as rents from the Butterfly Centre and Otter Sanctuary previously developed by them . |
| 26 | Article 18 of the Vienna Convention draws a distinction between a third party stranger to a treaty and one which is a non-party , but has minimum obligations . |
| 27 | She is chocolate-brown but has fair-coloured highlights ( the poodle was champagne-colour ) , and you 'll also see she has a white beard and a tiny dab of white on one of her back paws . |
| 28 | He earns in the region of £33,000 a year , but has substantial outgoings . |
| 29 | This frees journalists from some restraints when they write for foreign publications but has awkward consequences for those who distribute foreign papers in this country . |
| 30 | This is formally independent of the Labour Party , but has close links with its leaders . |