Example sentences of "but [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to go two thousand up I would say would be realistic , and achievable . |
| 2 | Her hands moved to unbutton his shirt , and , that done , she not only wanted to stroke the golden down on his body , but to see that body , to see him . |
| 3 | But to see communicative significance as deriving from the phylogenetically arbitrary status of apine dance , as a solution to their co-ordination problem , is open to a serious objection . |
| 4 | But lineage pure and simple was not the only consideration . |
| 5 | ( In fact , Curtis Bernhardt , the director of A Stolen Life , claims that both characters were not only on-screen simultaneously but passed each other and interacted without the use of a double , except in a few over-the-shoulder shots ; unfortunately he had forgotten when interviewed how this was done . |
| 6 | He took food by mouth but passed 5–8 motions a day and probably absorbed little of it . |
| 7 | The long term effects have not been established , but sit two metres away from the TV screen to be safe . |
| 8 | But to enable these skills to be transferred there needed to be a catalyst — the workforce needed to be trained how to train . |
| 9 | ‘ You 're inviting into your lives a negative force , welcoming that which tempts us all , but transforming that emptiness , that jealousy , that hatred into a living , breeding monstrosity . |
| 10 | The criminal law , in other words , condemns the importation of murderous terrorist acts usually against powerful individuals or strategic institutions , but goes all quiet when governments export or support avoidable acts of killing usually against the under-developed countries ' poor . |
| 11 | stated that he had the authority to give a supplementary grant of £100 , but asked Southern Division to plan ahead for 1994 and to produce a budget showing anticipated expenditure , to be sent to National Office . |
| 12 | Walker was one of the most active members of the steering committee appointed in 1853 to establish the museum ; and as secretary of the British Association in 1859–61 he helped organize the Oxford meeting of 1860 , which inaugurated the museum but became famous for its discussion of Darwinism . |
| 13 | It had not been used since 1978 , but became necessary because of the extent of the financial needs of the former Soviet republics , added to other world financial problems . |
| 14 | He then taught in a higher elementary school , but became critical of the local Bolsheviks ' lack of progress in educational and social affairs . |
| 15 | The purchase of UK government securities reached a peak of 3.2bn in 1983 but became negative in 1987 . |
| 16 | In institutional practice , ‘ English ’ in public schools tended to be marginal and somewhat disregarded , but became central in the culture of the grammar schools , in ways adumbrated and advocated in the Newbolt Report . |
| 17 | The issue had long exercised the evangelicals but became central in the 1830s and 1840s , coinciding in fact with the crisis of the domestic system in textile areas . |
| 18 | , is officially described as office cleaner , but became much more than that to the people who knew her during her 33 years with the company . |
| 19 | For a few months Joanne stayed at home , but became desperate to get a job and regain her independence . |
| 20 | Palmer originally specialised in acoustics but became interested in the physics of the Earth and in measuring ages by radiocarbon dating . |
| 21 | After she left at 16 she got a job in a pub but became interested in nursing as a career , being taken on as a trainee student nurse three years later . |
| 22 | The long period of gestation of the new legislation which began in the climate of reform typical of the 1970s but became entangled then in the fiscal and ideological retrenchment of the 1980s , reveals the complexity of the political debate and the variety of interests that had to be reconciled in drafting a new legal reference point that would modernize Germany 's approach to all questions of youth while at the same time express continuity . |
| 23 | The use of these names became accepted by the recipient for most were not used derisively but became natural names . |
| 24 | Open complexes formed at P A2b were resistant to an heparin challenge at superhelical densities ranging from -0.071 to -0.016 ( Figure 6 ) , but became sensitive at lower superhelical densities ( -0.006 or 0 ) . |
| 25 | NIP-derivatised human cells were tested as a model for targeted gene delivery , but became permissive for both modified ( displaying an anti-NIP antibody ) and unmodified ecotropic viral particles . |
| 26 | This mattered little while Antarctica remained virtually empty , as it did up to the end of World War II , but became important in post-war years when scientists and technicians of many nations began to work there . |
| 27 | She had protected herself but became aware that her womb was weeping for her . |
| 28 | After two hours , I reached firmer ground but became concerned that I could not see a four hundred foot escarpment which , according to the map , should have been less than a mile ahead . |
| 29 | She assumed he had gone out for a reason but became worried and phoned a friend . |
| 30 | For the ground about him , with its padding of last year 's thick leaf-fall sodden and trodden into soft pulp , showed no disturbance , but lay moist , dark and flat , unmarked by any convulsions of his feet or arms , or any trampling of an assailant round him . |