Example sentences of "but they [verb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they raise again the issue of how one assesses the importance of different forms of organization within an economy and society , and especially in what sense , and when , it is possible to say that a particular form of organization dominates a system . |
| 2 | People embrace him as an all-conquering hero , but they miss out the fact that a lot of native Americans were butchered along the way before old Whitey took over the country . |
| 3 | They do n't solve the mystery but they fill in the background . |
| 4 | If any of them had displayed a leaning towards the stage , Dinah would no doubt have encouraged it ; but they had neither the presence nor the voice , nor , she would think despairingly , looking round them all , the appearance ; every one was Paul over again . |
| 5 | A meal would only cost five francs but they noticed how the prices went up if their escorts were American , English or Australian . |
| 6 | I do not have the statistics to hand , but they show how the number of smokers differs between socio-economic groups . |
| 7 | But they gloss over the ambiguities in the concept of the subject which underlie these difficulties . |
| 8 | The public 's ideas for providing full employment were coloured by the success of wartime planning , but they remained largely the notions of the years before the war , as Table 1 , compiled immediately following the publication of the Beveridge report in December 1942 , shows : a public works programme was mentioned four times as frequently as socialism , which was less popular than solutions based on reducing the amount of work to be done by individuals , and in the number wanting work . |
| 9 | The methods we have covered do not represent all of those now being used , but they open up the possibilities of new approaches , some of which should become common tools of primary health care in the decade ahead . |
| 10 | Yes , their own country was in danger from the Japanese , but they stayed where the fighting was at its hardest , side by side with the British . |
| 11 | But they have instead the filth that gathers in stagnant water and its evil smell on many a lawn . ’ |
| 12 | They do look at the statistics the government statistics for fertility and mortality , but they have then the ability to amend , to adjust to local erm to match up with local information . |
| 13 | The humiliations may show us the strength of the opposition which the world , temporal and spiritual , sets up against him , but they promise too the kind of imaginative and moral strength which will raise him about it . |
| 14 | With the professors ' backing , disaffected St Petersburg students tried to set up a " free university " at the beginning of 1862 , but they gave up the attempt after a month when the government arrested a professor for lecturing in a supposedly provocative manner on the upcoming national millennium . |