Sentence examples for but preceded from inspiring English sources
That meeting followed byelections won by Aung San Suu Kyi's party, but preceded her entry to parliament.
Mr. S. is 7 years younger than his brother, but preceded Mr. Fitzgerald into the Abbey, which accounts for the fact that he uses the family name.
Following His Father's Path But Making His Own Way Mr. Ferrante, 26, was following in the footsteps of his father but preceded him that day.
Manuel del Valle, 60, an overachiever from the housing projects on Amsterdam Avenue, made the same leaps as the judge — to Princeton University and Yale Law School — but preceded her by five years.
The FDG change paralleled but preceded the drug-induced reductions in xenograft sizes.
Most critical here is, perhaps, Lotze's act-content distinction (cf. Micro, II, 630), one which followed Herbart, but preceded Brentano by decades.
But preceding it was a kind of entr'acte.
A nonfinite verb follows the subject but precedes the object and adverbials (except sentence adverbials and certain time adverbials, which may precede the nonfinite verb).
Two very large paintings, also belonging to the "Mark" series but preceding the smaller dark canvases, give a glimpse perhaps of the previous life of these objects.
A companion instrument to the European convention similar to but preceding the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights is the European Social Charter (1961) and its additional protocol (1988).
The one-page menu begins fairly traditionally, but sashays into disorganization a few dishes down from the top, with crisp wild mushroom and butternut squash ravioli following a few soups and salads but preceding panzanella du jour.
