Example sentences of "but [verb] [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The top two money-winners in the United States this season converted their two-shot overnight lead over Spain into a three-stroke halfway advantage but admitted afterwards the six-hour crawl had taken its toll . |
| 2 | The underlying position remains one in which most of the rural population i.e. three quarters of the total , is able to feed itself adequately , but has neither the surplus labour nor the technology to make big strides in productivity . |
| 3 | But put aside the question-begging character of the premiss , and turn instead to the conclusion . |
| 4 | He outraged respectable Victorian society by his public championing of the poor and his denunciations of the uncaring rich ; in addition , he not only espoused the cause of the theatre and ballet as harmless and enjoyable pastimes , but rejected entirely the received opinion that these entertainments constituted the inescapable gateway to the everlasting bonfire . |
| 5 | They listened but heard only the steady rain . |
| 6 | The other voice often brings immediate reward but takes away the inner light and hardens the heart , blinding us to what is right and what is wrong , so that we are no longer certain which path to take . |
| 7 | But to consider only the final selection examination , is to see only half the picture . |
| 8 | America 's Patriot anti-missile batteries , hastily airlifted to Israel from Germany after the first two Scud attacks , failed to stop a third attack but worked well the following night . |
| 9 | This is not confined to new policies and new decisions , but implies also the continuing examination , on a systematic and critical basis of existing activities of government . |
| 10 | The internal politics of liberal democracies are not explicable in Marxist categories , but reflect only the partial fragmentation of interests between capitalists and their associated functionaries . |
| 11 | The task of uncovering , or recovering , the ideas and aspirations of these hidden majorities has been started , but remains perhaps the central project for historians in a democratic age . |
| 12 | There are a number of them , but planting just the early Dutch ( Lonicera periclymenum Belgica ) and late Dutch ( L. p . |
| 13 | But take away the healthy assurance which grows from personal conviction and every pressure is likely to bear down on the weakened commitment and raise tremors of uncertainty which grow into doubt . |
| 14 | The wording of the administration no longer referred to the body and blood of Christ but emphasized instead the commemorative significance of the sacrament , the minister declaring : ‘ Take and eat this in remembrance that Christ died for thee , and feed on him in thy heart by faith with thanksgiving . ’ |