Example sentences of "but [verb] [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But seeing him for the first time was like when you buy a new make of car you never noticed that kind before , then you realise they 're all over the place . |
| 2 | Special schools are not therefore designed to isolate mentally handicapped children but to provide them with the specific form of education they require . |
| 3 | She was about to shake her head , but changed it at the last moment to a nod . |
| 4 | Maclagan — jogged silently down the lock 's east wall but found none of the expected demolitions at its gates . |
| 5 | But protecting themselves against the deadly virus by practising safer sex is another matter . |
| 6 | Further questions on unemployment ‘ people do n't want training they want jobs ’ , homelessness and the NHS left Mr Major a little wobbly but provided him with the best and closing line of the night . |
| 7 | She was about to say so , in no uncertain terms , but stopped herself at the last moment . |
| 8 | Nurturing confidence is one thing , but cosseting them from the harsh realities of top provincial competition could prove totally counter-productive come the two games the count against the New Zealand XV , who themselves will not include any of the All Black tourists in Australia for the Bledisloe Cup series . |
| 9 | The Bulgarian Social Democrat Party ( BSDP ) had originally called itself the Bulgarian Socialist Party , but redesignated itself as the Bulgarian Social Democratic Party ( non-Marxist ) , at its first national conference held on March 31 in Sofia , thereby ceding the BSP name to be adopted by the BCP [ see p. 37380 ] . |
| 10 | So many mixed feelings of guilt and anxiety , love and hate can blur the issue that it may be important to adopt the suggestion of one therapist and discuss all the issues with a wise counsellor , perhaps a minister or some other friend of the family , who knows most of the people concerned but has none of the strong emotional involvement of a family member . |
| 11 | Perhaps it is too radical and imaginative a suggestion , but has anyone in the local government structure of Suffolk looked beyond their plans to build houses on Ipswich Airport and considered what a fine civil airport for the county either of the two unwanted RAF airfields might make ? |
| 12 | The planned and formulaic rationality of the Enlightenment , according to the critique , is increasingly marked by the familiar , the conventional and by ‘ sameness ’ : a sameness which need not exclude difference , but contains it within the rational , functional and acceptable forms of its own choosing . |
| 13 | The Americans came to London and invested large amounts of money in local film production , but put nothing into the creative infrastructure . |
| 14 | Finally , she left for the airfield in a pale-green safari suit , which marked her a soldier 's wife but distinguished her from the lesser spouses . |
| 15 | but power us to the next disgrace . |
| 16 | She was once a Tory activist , but told me in the first week of the campaign she had lost faith . |
| 17 | Brussels had a river but buried it in the 19th century when it began to stink . |
| 18 | They do not repeat : ’ Do not bring us to the test , but save us from the evil one ’ , or , ’ Do not bring us to hard testing . ’ |
| 19 | Commodore 's CDTV also benefits from an association with CD-A but approaches it from the other direction . |
| 20 | This not only allows him to indulge in more of those awkward movements , which make his first solo such a wonderful parody of classical dance , but shows him as the pathetic clown , always the butt of everyone 's laughter . |
| 21 | I feel very strongly that Salford should end this free giving away of degrees , but give them to the deserved students only — us . |
| 22 | When you send them send them Parcel Class but insure them for the top amount , |
| 23 | It looks as though there lies behind D a chronicle which received additions in Christ Church Canterbury , and at least one of those additions , on Æthelnoth 's journey to Rome , was possibly present in a version which reached St Augustine 's , where it was copied in a slightly modified form into the predecessor of E. St Augustine 's may also have received the 1023 entry in D , but abbreviated it to the single sentence which E now contains . |
| 24 | It was easier to follow in the darkness , but exposed them to the full force of the wind and rain . |
| 25 | ( Cohen also refers , for instance , to white youth who supported overtly racist immigration policies but dissociated themselves from the National Front ; see also the research on white youth reported in Coffield et al. , |
| 26 | But mixing it with the hard men of football is no problem for a kid brought up the hard way on the mean streets of Leicester . |
| 27 | Graziano , 68 , won the world title in 1947 with a sixth-round knock-out of Tony Zale but lost it to the same fighter less than a year later . |
| 28 | Women prisoners in Armagh had political status until 1975 but lost it in the following year and the numbers in Armagh rose dramatically during the late seventies . |
| 29 | Apparently , the process conditions promote deposition of the enclosed material in the larger cavity , but prohibit it in the smaller . |
| 30 | ‘ But shoot it in the right direction , you 're making it your intention/Live those dreams , scheme those schemes . ’ |