Example sentences of "[noun sg] but [verb] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following day , with the barricades still in place but support for the insurrection eroding , de Gaulle was already talking about the crisis in the past tense . |
| 2 | The possibility of a child being born with a handicap is not only an emotional worry but caring for the child in the future will be expensive . |
| 3 | He did not even state his demand but waited for the rupee to drop . |
| 4 | British producers have little choice but to go for the home market , because the lion share of their budgets comes from the B B C , I T V or Channel Four who commission the programmes in the first place . |
| 5 | Damages are designed not to punish the person in breach but to compensate for the loss sustained by the plaintiff . |