Example sentences of "but they [adv] [verb] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as APEX is concerned they are OK up to a point but they just want to follow the legal procedures and we want them to take some kind of militant action . |
| 2 | In contrast , female domestic servants led isolated work lives prior to marriage and their marriages usually involved a traditional sexual division of labour ; but they also tended to enjoy a joint role relationship with their husbands in the sense that the husband spent his non-working hours with his wife and children , and they too tended to be successful in limiting the size of their families . |
| 3 | But they also begin to admit a clear differentiation between recitative , arioso , and song within a single piece . |
| 4 | Concerns of this kind , as Pamyat' demonstrated , could sometimes take a xenophobic or anti-semitic form , but they also helped to provide the impetus behind a growing environmentalist movement centred around issues such as the pollution of Lake Baikal in Siberia and the defence of villages that had been declared ‘ perspectiveless ’ by central planners . |
| 5 | Not only do they fail to express what it is like to be a sea-urchin , fly , or dog , but they also fail to articulate the specific psychological functions involved . |
| 6 | But they also need to improve the state 's port and other infrastructure if Yucatan is really to become a low-cost assembly centre for America 's east coast . |
| 7 | But they also aim to address the full range of social influences on behaviour , and this can complicate them . |
| 8 | Not only are they usually paid below the legal minimum — a study in 1984 showed three quarters of homeworkers in Britain were earning 1 or less an hour — but they also have to carry the overheads of heating and lighting . |
| 9 | The proprietors of Elmfield House , Jim and Edith Lillie , were initially a little apprehensive about opening their much restored and much-cared for home to the public — but they soon came to appreciate the friendship and interest given to them by their visitors from all over the world . |
| 10 | That did nothing for County 's confidence , but they gradually began to exert a control that promised them at least a draw until Sansom 's unlucky deflection . |
| 11 | It is true that after the age of thirty certain poets seem to be incapable of writing much that is worth reading ; there are notable exceptions , but they only serve to prove the rule . |
| 12 | But they now have to find the £330,000 to pay for the building . |
| 13 | This morning a rat poked his nose in , but they usually seem to prefer the main hold . |
| 14 | Citation figures must be interpreted intelligently , but they really do highlight the distinction between research which is significant and that which is not . |
| 15 | I thought things were going to get pretty heavy for a while , but they never did escalate the way I thought they might . |
| 16 | Foreign language students do not generally attain the same kind of competence as first language speakers , but they too manage to operate the systems of communication as a whole . |
| 17 | But they still did do a certain amount of er the stock in trade course the bins for g for transporting stuff in and all like that . |
| 18 | Many are now in the caring hands of staff at the Battersea Dogs Home in London , but they still have to find a permanent home . |
| 19 | But they quickly learned to avoid the aposematic ones and by the end of the experiment had eaten more of the inconspicuous variety |
| 20 | All independently of each other going round to the , well I say independently , but they obviously get fed a lot of information from head office where we have a telesales operation . |