Example sentences of "but [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we have now had thrust upon us is a precedent to hasten death , not really to help the patient die with dignity but to accommodate the judgment of others that the patient 's life is no longer possessed of ‘ quality ’ . |
| 2 | But to see the delight on the players ' faces on their return to the headquarters marquee after each day 's match for a glass or two of DB export and sumptuous food made for a highly successful occasion . |
| 3 | Two days later we were at Wrexham Hospital — not for Nigel to undergo traction as anticipated but to see the chest specialist and to be told that he had a fatal disease . |
| 4 | The mountains south of the head of Loch Arkaig are fully in view from the end of the road , Sgurr Thuilm and Streap in particular being well displayed , but to see the even grander mountains bordering Glen Dessarry , a short walk up this glen should be taken . |
| 5 | Well , of course ! — everyone knew that , but to see the results so soon … |
| 6 | In mid-August a dozen members paid an evening visit to the Bridgnorth area , not this time to see the Severn Valley Railway , but to see the Oldbury Live Steam Museum , a complete garden given over to a variety of exhibits , mainly around a railway theme , but also with models of vintage buses , ships and aeroplanes . |
| 7 | Or we could comply with the 30 October 1993 rule but amend the accounting reference date within the first nine months of incorporation , as we may , and draw up accounts to 31 October 1993 , which is within the seven day period allowed by s 223(2) . |
| 8 | At the time of its production , Diaghilev was convinced that another truly Russian ballet was needed , traditional in essence but reflecting the revolutionary ideas of contemporary artists working in Russia as well as Paris . |
| 9 | He compares three studies , carried out respectively in 1949 , 1972 and 1983 , but reflecting the educational and social conditions of well before those dates . |
| 10 | Success , however , ruined its author , who took to strange clothes and beliefs and ‘ never wrote any more , but wasted the rest of his time trying to explain what he had and what he had not meant in John Inglesant' . |
| 11 | For Great Britain , the Department of Trade and Industry persuaded Luke Rittner , former Secretary General of the Arts Council , to act as its cultural adviser , but wasted the invitation by equipping him with a totally inadequate budget . |
| 12 | If you had but divided the cake with your brothers , |
| 13 | Cross-addiction ensures that the weaker Fellowships receive support from members who have experience of stronger Fellowships but it may nonetheless at times be more helpful for a newcomer to receive slightly less individual identification but gain the experience of a stronger Fellowship . |
| 14 | One further dimension to such a system is the possibility of " networking " a number of micros This involves the interconnecting of micros which retain their full power as independent computers but gain the additional ability of communicating with other computers in the network and having access to common files The result is analogous to a minicomputer with a number of terminals but with the big difference that each of the micros has its own processing power instead of sharing that of the mini . |
| 15 | The teachers in the two departments are possessed of a missionary zeal to improve the quality of their pupils ' lives ; they do not want an English education to be useful or vocational , but to enable the pupils to think critically about themselves , about life , and about society . |
| 16 | Severn Trent wants to develop the land , but asked the archaelogists to excavate it before the builders move in . |
| 17 | The studied plainness of diction in these poems of country life was an important part of their experimental character , but became the object of much ridicule . |
| 18 | It was not only widely used at once but became the " identification photograph " of the war . |
| 19 | A story which focuses on those aspects of ‘ family ’ , which family photography has deselected , but transforms the ordinary things every mother has seen — a wet bed ( as above ) , a bloody nose ( ‘ Emmett 's Bloody Nose ’ 1985 ) , candy cigarettes ( ‘ Candy Cigarette ’ 1989 ) into a technically and philosophically complex narrative . |
| 20 | but tackles the oxer with a random , |
| 21 | 30 June 1989 found most of the battalion not on guard in bearskins and tunics , but enjoying the last day of a fortnight 's shooting on the ranges at Salisbury Plain , on ISAAC . |
| 22 | At 10 am , with the French heavily outnumbered but enjoying the weather gauge , as a ‘ small gale ’ was blowing from the south-south-west , some miles off Cap Barfleur , at the north-east point of the Cotentin peninsula , de Tourville , who had no faith in the proposed invasion , led his ships towards the enemy . |
| 23 | To do so requires a flexible mind and a strong will , but to carry the mind and the will requires a strong and fluid body . |
| 24 | They imply also that the organization is prepared to make more mistakes , but to carry the consequences in view of the greater benefits to the organization as a whole from being action-oriented . |
| 25 | First is a simple reductionist view , which would neglect the way in which culture not only shapes but constitutes the vast mass of human behaviour . |
| 26 | He then made one or two suggestions for limiting her liability , but got the impression that she was indifferent to his suggestions as though she thought it would be a waste of time to put them forward . |
| 27 | ‘ We filled a big order for a Yorkshire company , but got the colour of the material wrong . ’ |
| 28 | The next day in the House of Commons he was able not only to listen to tributes to himself — a rare experience normally confined to a man 's widow — but to perform the role of an out-of-season Father Christmas . |
| 29 | The congress expressed support for President Kravchuk , but sought the dismissal of the present government under Prime Minister Vitold Fokin , the dissolution of the current parliament ( elected in March 1990 ) and the holding of fresh legislative elections . |
| 30 | But given the discrimination shown against climbers in the present price structure , how long might it be before you climb at High Rocks by season ticket , or prior arrangement and private fee only ? |