Example sentences of "but [verb] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evidence is now emerging that women have been detained in order to be raped and even impregnated , and that political and military leaders knew , but condoned it.One woman who can testify to the existence of rape camps and the suffering of women , is Francoise Hampson , senior lecturer at Essex University and an expert in the law of armed conflict . |
| 2 | But lay people can also make good directors — perhaps someone you have known for years , or , say , your house group leader . |
| 3 | The bulge I swung beneath on pitch six of the Cavales West Ridge was one of those , I swear — but given V in the guide ! |
| 4 | They put up notices about the project in community centres , general practitioners ' waiting rooms , and clinics ; again not formally advertising posts , but to alert people to the possibility of involvement with the Home Support Project . |
| 5 | Last year , the Russians spent 1.3bn roubles on space research for science and economics , but made 2bn roubles in profits . |
| 6 | LTA sales director Brian Robinson says they 're not trying to impose censorship but fear graffiti ; RSC director Michael Bogdanov argues that the drawing is a great European classic and that Britain is a small minded and prudish nation . |
| 7 | The 99MHz Model 755 offers similar performance and uses the same input-output system as the 735 but offers 64Mb to 768Mb RAM with up to 4Gb internal storage , supports 297Gb hard disk and two removables — either floppy , CD or DAT and has four EISA slots . |
| 8 | ‘ But looks kin be deceiving . ’ |
| 9 | Gold for Cooking is unique : it can be used in the same quantity in your recipes as butter or margarine but has 25% less fat . |
| 10 | Other international interests — from France and Spain to the Irish Republic and Israel — chipped in an unchanged but welcome £69.3m . |
| 11 | This tax deduction not only subsidises health spending directly , but forces people into third-party-payer systems where they are insensitive to cost and incur administrative expenses . |
| 12 | They reversed away without stealing anything after being scared by an alarm but caused £750 damage . |
| 13 | That was broken with the 1984 Budget , which cut corporation tax from 42% to 35% , but reduced 100% capital allowances to 25% . ’ |
| 14 | Total imports of crude oil in the first 10 months of 1989 were 2,380,000 tonnes less than in the corresponding period in 1988 , but cost $36,970,000 more . |
| 15 | UK sales last year of both UK and French-made Peugeot cars increased , but export sales fell from 61,400 to 53,000 because of lower demand in some European markets . |
| 16 | On receiving notice of the payment in , the plaintiff may either ( i ) lodge his bill of costs for taxation , or ( ii ) if he so opts or in any event where the amount recovered does not exceed £100 but exceeds £25 , ask for his costs to be assessed under costs Appendix C to the 1981 Rules ( see Costs Appendix C ) to which will be added the plaint fee ( Ord 38 , r 19 ) . |
| 17 | As things turned out , Cabernet acted as catalyst , improving Chianti but forcing Sangiovese to show how good it really was under pressure . |
| 18 | AF boss Dr Bruno Broughton said : ‘ There is nothing wrong with the bulk of the IFM proposals but forcing people to qualify before being allowed to go fishing is over the top . ’ |
| 19 | But to expect people to live reasonably is like asking them to live on paregoric . ’ |
| 20 | Call it unfair if you like , but awarding 40% of an award to one person and 20% to someone else is n't really practical ! |
| 21 | Solves storage space and fiddling on but costs £2,000 . |
| 22 | This develops a lusty 150bhp , but costs £17,595 . |
| 23 | Another study , by Mintel , a market-research company , covers some of the same ground as the academics ' book ( but costs £795 ) . |
| 24 | Barclayshare 's advisory service , which has £250m under management , has the same charging structure , but costs £15 quarterly . |
| 25 | But paying £56,000 for a house from which to collect train numbers is taking a hobby too far . |
| 26 | It 's important that people on TV do n't just stay icons , but meet people in living colour , if you do n't mind the pun ! |
| 27 | The aim of this approach is not so much to offer care and protection , but to help people to reach their ‘ full potential ’ . |
| 28 | The company might not have liked the idea very much , but rising sales figures for diesels made it just about inevitable . |
| 29 | In British public schools , for instance , not only are the majority of pupils deliberately drawn from that small section of British society committed to the standards which the public school promotes , but teaching staff are similarly rigorously selected , not merely on the basis of academic competence , but also on the basis of the extent to which they have successfully internalised the standards they are expected to foster among their pupils . |
| 30 | This means not only office staff , who bear the brunt of system usage , but teaching staff , who must retain specific decision-making roles , and , last but not least , the students themselves , who must have faith in the system 's accuracy and ability to provide records and timetables of appropriate quality at specific times and on demand ; |