Example sentences of "but [verb] [adv] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Electricity again but using only a fraction of the power . |
| 2 | Today we can talk about sex without modesty or fear , but bring up the subject of death and you will be treated with the same social horror as if you had brought up the subject of masturbation at a Victorian ladies ' tea party . |
| 3 | The meeting voted for a revision of the Constitution to allow the head of state to appoint a Prime Minister but ruled out the introduction of a multiparty system . |
| 4 | Blanche looked up and searched the sky , seeking some prophecy of success or failure , but found only a sprinkling of stars brave enough to outshine the lemon gleam of the city 's lights . |
| 5 | A fraught fivesome with ants in their pants and , presumably , cockroaches in their coat pockets , they 're all about threats and menace and a three-guitar assault which owes rather a lot to tykes like the Pixies but has absolutely no intention of paying the buggers back . |
| 6 | Evangelical propaganda was thus able to achieve a sharp impact : while evangelicals like James Plumptree and Thomas Bowdler produced expurgated songs and literature , evangelical intellectuals like William Wilberforce , Hannah More and others such as Thornton and Stephen associated in the Clapham sect set up as moulders of a new ideology of domesticity , which not only proposed the family as a Christian haven in a disrupted world , but put forward a code of rules and regulations for the governing of individual lives . |
| 7 | There is no need to over-play the slightly pathetic quality but seek out the eagerness of his search for something to do . |
| 8 | This section on English will take broadly the same shape ; I do not propose to discuss the theoretical debates in English ( such as those between structuralists and liberal humanists ) but to discuss instead the purpose of English : what the teachers of English think is the point of teaching it . |
| 9 | Willie has caddied in the US , unlike some of his contemporaries , carrying for Ray Floyd , Sam Snead , Gary Player and Gay Brewer among others , but turned down the chance of working for Trevino at El Paso and taking his bag on the US Tour . |
| 10 | Whether , at the tender age of nineteen , he will be able to withstand the gruelling concert tour he has won remains to be seen ; Radu Lupu , who won the competition in 1966 , accepted the trophy but turned down the year of free promotion and international débuts . |
| 11 | This phenomenon is related to the last , but concerns not the translation of procedures from programs/software to machines/hardware , but rather the translation of procedures from one level of programming language to another . |
| 12 | Many times the incompetent were described as being smart but lacking even an ounce of common sense . |
| 13 | But the aim of radical reform is not merely to change the law 's approach so that it becomes more in tune with modern perceptions of sexual assault , but to address directly the problem of processing rape . |
| 14 | The church figured in this document only in the same general terms as it figured in Magna Carta ; there was one reference to prohibitions , but begging still the question of what were temporalities and what were not . |
| 15 | At the opposite end of the spectrum , another solution is to excavate one large area without sections , but to build up a picture of the stratigraphy by recording the relationship of each layer to any adjoining layers . |
| 16 | Obviously , you can try hitting down the lines or cross-court , but keep up the quality of the rallies by maintaining speed and weight of shot . |
| 17 | I can not help but marvel over the miracle of cordless technology when perched 40ft high , drilling through roof rafters with a cordless tool , not having to worry about tripping over the cable or whether it 's going to rain . |
| 18 | It had been the Royal Air Force base in the province since the early part of the century , but took on the role of Ulster 's principal airport when the Nutt 's Corner aerodrome was handed over . |
| 19 | That split ended an era , but brought about the birth of real political parties . |
| 20 | It would be possible instead to preserve the relationship between the financial institutions and the personal sector savers but to alter substantially the deployment of funds by obliging the institutions to contribute to a national investment bank , giving them in return bonds with a rate of return linked to the real growth rate of the economy . |
| 21 | You are as free a man as I am , we do but agree over the hire of a courier . |
| 22 | It was one thing to have turned his own country into an ‘ underdeveloping ’ society , but to seek out the company of the other basket-cases of the world economy was to add gratuitous insult to already grave injury in the minds of most Romanians . |
| 23 | But pinning down the personality of a baby is no easy task and , in many cases , your tantrum-throwing two-year-old may bear little resemblance to the sweet , quiet little newborn bundle you presented so proudly to the world . |
| 24 | ‘ But carrying on the business of the realm is the least I can do while the King is so wretchedly confined , ’ Matilda concluded . |
| 25 | ‘ But does n't the chairman of the club object ? ’ |
| 26 | But take away the effect of the new council tax and underlying inflation has risen slightly . |
| 27 | As Thurlow sums him up , ‘ in everyday life he was a small insignificant man in an ordinary suit … but take off the uniform of the city solicitor and put on the running singlet and the track shoes and the transformation was amazing ’ . |
| 28 | Dan Wagoner 's own new work , first staged in Plymouth in October , has a jokey title , Turtles All The Way Down , and has something to do with a Bertrand Russell lecture when it was suggested that the Earth is not round but carried on the back of a giant tortoise which stands on turtles all the way down . |
| 29 | Because of this , a household obliged to sponsor many feasts gains no prestige , but becomes rather an object of pity . |
| 30 | Thus , addictive disease may be genetically determined but becomes Progressively a disease of adaptation to the various damaging consequences of previous drinking or drug use . |