Example sentences of "but [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | not fudged , but agreed in concrete terms on a rather different basis . |
| 2 | A little arsenic can cure disorders of the stomach , but given in regular small doses becomes a poison . |
| 3 | There are many reasons for this , outlined here , but given in greater detail elsewhere ( Illich , 1977 ; Thunhurst , 1982 ; Doyle , 1983 ) . |
| 4 | The FT-SE 100 share index was down 42 points at one stage but recovered in later trading to end the day down 30.5 points at 2,281.6 . |
| 5 | Investigations were then suspended for lack of police evidence , but reopened in 1987 when another judge accused the Dicomcar police intelligence directorate of being responsible . |
| 6 | Four of these were members of the networks under observation , but lived in neighbouring townships and so were excluded from the quantitative analysis which concerned itself with the known-unknown ratio in specific townships . |
| 7 | He would not , one might guess , have destroyed the ugly new houses left by the occupying power of his homeland but lived in one of them ; and though ( like the heroes of Tolkien and Lewis ) he likes beer as well as wine , he is not interested , as they were , in the cosy provincial life of the academic coterie . |
| 8 | He was present at the funeral of Edward VI , but lived in quiet retirement during Mary I 's reign . |
| 9 | I believe if a player is down as a defender but plays in another position . |
| 10 | The TransPennine service , launched a century ago but struggling in recent years , has been turned into one of its flagship operations . |
| 11 | The TransPennine service , launched a century ago but struggling in recent years , has been turned into one of its flagship operations . |
| 12 | ‘ They must have bugged her for the same reason we went to see her : she was somebody unofficial but experienced in underground work — They 'd know they were up against some British group not the CIA . |
| 13 | There are many cheeses that are similar to Brie and Camembert but produced in different shapes or sold at differing stages of ripeness. all are referred to as surface-ripened , containing bacteria on their developing white rinds . |
| 14 | Crews from all over the world were competing at Henley this weekend … for women rowers this is the big event of the year … but times are a changing … there 'll be a women 's single sculls at this years main Henley Regatta … they 've been there before in invitation races or coxing in men 's crews but competing in international competition is quite a breakthrough |
| 15 | It is a type of formative assessment , insofar as it looks ahead to future learning activities , but differs in that it usually involves the use of more specific procedures or protocols . |
| 16 | ‘ Children in heaven do not advance beyond early manhood , but remain in that state of eternity ’ |
| 17 | These rules were modified by reform Judaism in modern times and , to a lesser extent , by conservative Judaism , but remain in full force for the orthodox , the group that predominates as the only legitimate expression of Judaism in the present State of Israel . |
| 18 | But to lose in 1992 as well — consigning his front-bench colleagues to many more years of frustration — is the death-knell for his leadership . |
| 19 | But caught in that web were jots of evidence that Angie quite simply lived with every day . |
| 20 | 1956 Arrested and charged with high treason , but discharged in 1961 after five-year trial |
| 21 | They were uniform but occurred in such abundance and could so readily be transported that even when they were taken over as currency they could only serve as a rule for small change . |
| 22 | Ventricular fibrillation following the first thrombolytic agent did not occur in any of the 26 patients , but occurred in 2 after the rt-PA while in hospital . |
| 23 | She seemed to have lost a shoe , and her dress was not only dirty but torn in several places . |
| 24 | A likely soup might be gazpacho ( actually Spanish in origin , but found in many Latin restaurants ) , a first course ripe avocado served simply with fresh lime . |
| 25 | Due to the high cost of operating a high powered aircraft like the Firefly ( this was during the mid-1960s , before ‘ warbirds ’ were commonplace ) , the aircraft was reluctantly grounded , but maintained in good order . |
| 26 | The last flight will be made from RAF Waddington to its new resting place at Bruntingthorpe next Tuesday , where the aircraft will be grounded but maintained in operational condition . |
| 27 | The Little Černín Palace ( 12/155 ) , originally by J. J. Wirch but rebuilt in 1952 , has a lovely garden beyond it . |
| 28 | The latter was begun in 1617 for William and Mary White , but rebuilt in 1633 ; when the iron-founding and gentry family of Freeman acquired it in 1666 , they refashioned the interior with some of the finest stucco work in Sussex , masking the simpler tastes of its earlier owners . |
| 29 | The examples at Kaupanger ( Sognfjord ) , built c. 1200 but rebuilt in 1862 , and at Fantoft , near Bergen are simpler but also of considerable interest . |
| 30 | It is not too easy to find , but lies in more or less of a line with Beta and 21(4.5) . |