Example sentences of "but [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to go with the slur of murder still upon him , and always the threat of pursuit and capture ? |
| 2 | He had tried to hide his fears from his poor wife and gone down to his warehouse where another message had been awaiting him : he was not to return home , the short letter instructed , but to go to the House of the Crutched Friars where his anxieties would be resolved . |
| 3 | The car 's just a practical thing to me , I mean I like to drive around in comfort , everybody likes a nice car , I 'm not saying that , but to go to the extreme of spending what would say , seventy or eighty thousand pounds on a Porsche , I 'd have to be really , really rich before I would consider the luxury of having a Porsche . |
| 4 | The track does n't go onto the shore , but goes along the top of some low cliffs above the beach . |
| 5 | Take your cue from the tone set by the interviewer but err on the side of formality . |
| 6 | Overall , the pound depreciated by 6.25 per cent in real terms in the year ended March 1990 , but recovered in the wake of the Gulf crisis , hitting a nine-year high against the US dollar on Aug. 23 ( £1=$1.9515 ) , and rising against the West German currency to over DM3 . |
| 7 | Salvage from sailing ships was an important additional income for the local people , but ceased with the coming of the steamships as they could stand out to sea in a storm . |
| 8 | In the mid-twenties it closed altogether but reopened towards the end of the decade . |
| 9 | The chief property of poetry is coherence , not of a logical kind , but consisting in the harmonization of conflicting meanings or attitudes ; poetry is objectively characterized , Wimsatt suggested ( 1958 : 236 ) , by a ‘ wholeness of meaning established through internally differentiated form , the reconciliation of diverse parts ’ . |
| 10 | The quotation has nothing to do with the coming of the Messiah but refers to the destruction of the northern kingdom of Israel by Assyria in 721 BC . |
| 11 | Here the Anglo-Norman chancery was in the vanguard with the production of writs — commands addressed to the king-duke 's officials , used in eleventh-century Normandy , but developed in the course of the twelfth into the chief instrument for central control over the localities and for legal innovation . |
| 12 | Chatichai Choonhaven [ see p. 39007 ] , drawing its support largely from Chart Thai ( Chatichai 's old party ) and from Sammakkhi Tham , the air force 's protégé party which had won the largest number of seats ( 79 ) in the March election , but disintegrated with the collapse of the Suchinda government . |
| 13 | Yet , as noted at the beginning of this chapter , the amendments were essentially the same as those put by the previous Labour administration in 1977 but withdrawn in the face of widespread opposition . |
| 14 | The king , in great anger , ordered the immediate implementation of this judgement , but relented on the intercession of Abbot Ælfsige and Queen Emma , who argued that it was unjust to punish the whole community for the faults of a few . |
| 15 | But competing with the conception of the other person 's thoughts is the child 's own knowledge of the location of the coin . |
| 16 | Determination to deal with the situation " properly and once and for all " but coupled with the confusion of not knowing precisely what to do for the best , particularly in the face of vast quantities of advice all of which seems perfectly clear — except that it directly conflicts with other equally vast and equally clear advice from other sources . |
| 17 | O. metallacta bears a close resemblance to O. notata but differs in the shape of the oral and adoral shield ( see Table 1 ) . |
| 18 | O. affinis is similar to O. vicarius Lyman , 1869 , from the West Indies but differs in the shape of the apical papilla which is simple blunt or slightly pointed in O. affinis as opposed to heart shaped in O. vicarius , though the occasional occurrence of heart shaped apical papillae in O. affinis throws doubt on the validity of this character , the degree to which the disk is constricted interradially , which is very pronounced in most specimens of O. affinis but not noticeably so in O. vicarius ; and the number of arm spines , 7–8 in O. affinis but as many as 10–12 O. vicarius . |
| 19 | Bri was eager to learn but frustrated by the idea of learning the verbs ‘ parrot fashion ’ and tried , unsuccessfully , to find a way round this . |
| 20 | I have taken a particular reading of the work of both Lévi-Strauss and Barthes that emphasizes the influence of structuralist linguistics but points to the progression of these writers ' ‘ structuralism ’ away from linguistic analysis . |
| 21 | Edward began by attempting to exclude Stratford from the assembly , but failed in the face of support for the archbishop from the Earl of Arundel , Earl Warenne , and other lay magnates who shared their suspicion of those round the king . |
| 22 | Isabella and Mortimer could scarcely hope to survive long in power : neither had a claim to the throne but ruled in the name of Edward III ; their authority was thus precarious and , given that Edward was in the Plantagenet mould , destined to early extinction . |
| 23 | Everyone was drinking but scattered at the sight of Bill Sykes but this little girl went back on stage to finish her drink ! |
| 24 | In my case , before becoming a Snavely winner , I was but crabgrass in the Garden of Physics . |
| 25 | The Doctor did n't stop , but shouted at the top of his voice for all to hear : |
| 26 | Some go on to argue , however , that value-freedom within the social sciences as a whole may be achieved by the interplay of arguments and evidence , each biased in different ways but contributing to the advancement of unbiased knowledge as a whole . |
| 27 | These two groups agree on rejecting many economic policy prescriptions of the ‘ wets ’ but disagree on the role of the state . |
| 28 | But considered in the context of the two years spent in Paris jazz clubs , exploring a musical genre that has often relied on experimental vocal contributions , it all begins to make sense . |
| 29 | Kurdish insurgent activity was not confined to Iraq and Iran but contributed to the atmosphere of insecurity that prevailed in Turkey before the military coup in 1980 . |
| 30 | An elegant example of this is La Bourgoise d'Orliens , " The townswoman of Orléans " , in which the husband , a merchant , suspecting his wife of having a clerk as a lover ( which she has ) tests her by pretending to go away but returning in the guise of a clerk . |