Example sentences of "[verb] but [prep] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | … a set of men who live by death and never care to appear but at the End of Man 's Life … their Business is to watch Death , and to furnish out the Funeral Solemnity , with as much pomp and feigned sorrow as the Heirs or Successors of the Deceased chose to purchase : They are a hard-hearted Generation , and require more money than Brains to conduct their Business ; I know no one Qualification peculiarly necessary to them , except that is a steady , demure and melancholy Countenance at Command : I do not know , that they take Apprentices in their Capacity as Undertakers , for they are generally Carpenters , or Herald-Painters besides ; and they only employ , as Journeymen , a set of Men whom they have picked up , possessed of a sober Countenance , and a solemn melancholy Face , whom they pay at so much a Jobb . |
| 2 | Superficially it might have appeared as though two brawny giants , immobilised but for the sway of their torsos , were about to jab and slash at one another , piercing and flaying till the vampire bat device decided that sufficient flesh had been sliced , that sufficient blood had coagulated in slim cinnabar threads . |
| 3 | Yet each in his own way sincerely struggled to impose order on a country where Lowlander and Highlander rarely met in friendship , and could rarely communicate in the same tongue ; where there was the continual threat of another English excuse for invasion , often abetted by self-seeking elements within the kingdom itself ; and where arrogant noblemen prolonged family feuds disruptive not merely to the families conceded but to the governance of the kingdom itself . |
| 4 | The struggle of Melanie Griffith as Tess McGill — from sec to exec — provides the perfect scenario not only for power dressing but for the enactment of many dominant-5 mythologies about women , work and social class . |
| 5 | Of course any rod bag will do but with the price of some of today 's rods it is false economy to make do . |
| 6 | " [ There is ] little to be said but in the way of commendation . |
| 7 | At least the Bank of Japan , like the Fed but unlike the Bank of England , has felt free to cut its rates . |
| 8 | When the police were billeted in the colliery , the safety men came to work , which they would not have done but for the presence of the police . |
| 9 | Earlier material may be shown but at the discretion of the school . |
| 10 | This basic test is whether the damage would not have occurred but for the breach of duty . |
| 11 | It makes you think but at the end of the day you 've trained your horses to be here and do it well . |
| 12 | As for amateur dramatics , I prefer to write for others to perform but in the absence of anyone daft — sorry , I mean talented — enough to oblige , I have been known to tread the boards . |
| 13 | The ‘ design for living ’ shown by a species is the outcome of this selective process and is related not at all to any eventuality that may arise but to the set of conditions , the ‘ niche ’ , to which the evolutionary process has confined the species . |
| 14 | He recovered but at the age of 22 was left almost completely bald and had to wear a wig , a fashion he discarded in the heat of India . |
| 15 | Ironically , the same concept and designation were evident in work of a different kind , where comparable observational and analytic techniques were employed but in the context of a radical critique of the institutions and their functions in capitalist society ( a specification of particular kinds of ‘ socialization ’ and ‘ communication ’ within a particular social and economic order ) . |
| 16 | ( Note : The use of the term ‘ manual ’ here does not refer to the use of sign language and/or fingerspelling but to the learning of trades such as carpentry etc . ) |
| 17 | There were so many things to do but at the back of her mind she knew she would never do any of them . |
| 18 | Harbury joined them , keen to hear what they were saying but with the excitement of someone nurturing a good story of his own . |
| 19 | Bedsitter accommodation was eventually provided but in the course of the investigation by the social work department it was discovered that in addition to Jim 's persistent truancy , he was also staying away from home , sleeping rough for days at a time . |
| 20 | The cause of this loss is difficult to determine but in the absence of any definite illness or fear or inhibition it may come from purposelessness ; but once there is equilibrium , then enthusiasm will increase as part of the development of the whole being . |
| 21 | The difficulty is not in the observing but in the interpreting of what has been observed . |
| 22 | This is not just for the pleasure of travelling but for the purpose of learning and evolving . |
| 23 | Lengthy representations , submissions and discussions followed but by the end of 1991 the agreed negotiation procedures had been exhausted without success . |
| 24 | None of the simple rituals could be observed but in the tradition of warriors who have performed brave deeds — say the grabbing of the tail of a lion before spearing it — Tepilit was remembered and spoken of . |
| 25 | To explain , requires the use of terms less abstruse than that which is to be explained , and such terms can not always be found ; for as nothing can be proved but by supposing something intuitively known , and evident without Proof , so nothing can be defined but by the use of words too plain to admit a definition . |
| 26 | In later years the argument was grudgingly admitted to have some force : one correspondent to the STC agreed that " 50 per cent of the London and provincial work would be lost to Edinburgh and would never have been gained but for the employment of female labour " . |
| 27 | Two nights under the same roof as Ernie Love had , he suspected , sealed his condition , for Ernie represented the squalor and futility to which his own life could so easily have led but for the sense of purpose looking for Heather had brought to it . |
| 28 | This last would look altogether like a castle keep but for the fantasy of its roof , which has a large slate cone perched , candle-snuffer fashion , on top of an already pointed lower roof . |
| 29 | BUT the Policyholder shall repay to the Corporation all sums paid by the Corporation which the Corporation would not have been liable to pay but for the provisions of such law . |
| 30 | BUT the Policyholder shall repay to the Corporation all sums paid by the Corporation which the Corporation would not have been liable to pay but for the provisions of such law . |